Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1900 — Would Gladly Take the Dose. [ARTICLE]

Would Gladly Take the Dose.

A story told me the other day—certainly told for new, but good enough to be old: On one of the recent warm days a sour-visaged, middle-aged, fussy old lady got on one of the smoking seats on an open car In the subway. Next her sat a man who was smoking a cigar. More than that, the lady, sniffing, easily made out that the man had been eating onions. Still ipore than that, she had the strongest kind of suspicion that he had been drinking beer. The lady fussed and wriggled, and grew angrier, and looked at the man scornfully. Presently she could endure it no longer. She looked squarely at him and said: “If you were my husband, sir, I’d give yqp a*dose of poison!” The man looked at her. “If I were your husband,” said he, “I’d take it!”— Boston Transcript.