Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1908 — A “Roast” All Around. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A “Roast” All Around.

The minister had just finished a little opening talk to the cbildreu preparatory to the morning service when Mrs. Berkeley suddenly realized, with all the agony of a careful housewife, that she had forgotten to turn the gas off from the oven in which she had left a nicely cooked roast all ready for the final reheating. Visions of a ruined dinner and a smoky kitchen roused her to Immediate effort, afid, borrowing a pencil from the young man in front, she scribbled a note. Just then her husband, an usher In the church, passed her pew. With a murmured “Hurry!” she thrust the note Into bls hand, and he, with an understanding nod, turned, passed up the aisle and banded the note to the minister. Mrs. Berkeley saw the act In speechless horror and shuddered as she saw the minister smilingly open the note and begin to read. But her expression of dismay was fully equaled by the look of amazement and wrath on the good man’s face as he read the words, “Go home and turn off the gas!”—Lippincott’s Magazine.

Della—How do you like my new hat? Bella—lt’s charming, dear. Why, It makes you look twenty years younger!—Cleveland Leader.