Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1908 — Just Satisfied Herself. [ARTICLE]

Just Satisfied Herself.

People of all sorts weigh themselves on the penny in the slot machines found widely distributed in public places, but never before had this man, anyway, seen anybody weigh on one of them anything but himself or herself as this weigher, a woman, did in a subway station. She came in carrying in one band a muff and in the other a box of polished oak that was narrow and proportionately high and maybe a foot in length. That the box was heavy was shown by the fact that the leather handle had been stretched somewhat by its weight. And apparently its present carrier had found it heavy and was curious about Its weight, for now she set the box on the platform of one of those weighing machines and dropped a penny in the slot. It weighed ten pounds, certainly a heavy box to carry. That was all she wanted to know—didn’t weigh herself. She just picked the box up again, this time with a smile, qnd went aboard the train. New York Sun.