Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1905 — Her Powerful Imagination. [ARTICLE]

Her Powerful Imagination.

When Mr. Ferguson went home the other evening lie found his wife crouching over the register in the back parlor with a shawl over her shoulders and shivering with all her might. The house was as hot ns an oven. “What’s the matter, Laura?” he asked. “The matter is,” she replied, with chattering teeth, “that I can’t keep warm. I’ve got the furnace going at its full capacity too.” “I should say you had. What do you want things so hot for? Have you got a chill?” “If you want to know, go out on the back porch and look at the thermometer.” He went and inspected It. Then he came back. “All that ails the thermometer,” he said. “Is that the bulb is broken and the mercury has run out-” “Are you sure of that?” “You may go and look at It yourself If you don’t believe me.” “Isn’t there a cold wave?” “Cold nothing! When I left the office half an hour ago the thermometer showed 30 degrees above zero, and It certainly hasn’t grown any colder since.” “George," gasped Mrs. Ferguson, throwing off her shawl and wiping the perspiration from her face, “I thought the mercury had gone down into the bulb and frozen solid.'"—Chicago Tribun*. operation. Weary Walters—l don’t believe in doin’ two t’ings at once. Sunny South—Two t’ings! Gee! I don’t believe In doin’ one t’ing at once. —Puck. An armload of old papers for a aickerit Tbe Democrat office. <