Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1904 — Made In Germany. [ARTICLE]

Made In Germany.

“Talking of funny incidents,” said the crockery salesman, “reminds me of one that occurred In our house. At the time the ‘mustache’ cup was a curiosity, and the boss thought it would be a good seheme_to put It on the mar-

ket at a reasonable price. Well, he went to Germany, and, finding that the kaiser’s subjects knew nothing about the cups, the boss gave au order for a big lot of them, to be of fine ware and handsomely decorated. In the course of time the goods arrived. Then the fun began. A few of the cups were satisfactory because they were plain—that is, without mottoes—but the great bulk of them bore such phrases in big gilt as_*To My Dear Aunt,’ ‘For My barling Mother,’ ‘From Tom to Lucy,’ and so on through the list The Germans had the money and declined to take back the goods, so they were sent to auction, the plain ones packed on the tops of the packages, and, as sure as we*re sitting here, the house made more out of them than it would have done if the German manufacturer had not made the blunder.”