Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — A WEAK APPEAL. [ARTICLE]

A WEAK APPEAL.

An editor was talking in San Francisco about Jim Jeffries. “Jim was a little crusty when he started training,” said the editor. “He (hated idea, you know, of removing all that fat. He hated, the idea of the weeks of self-denial and abstinence that lay before him. . —‘‘Jim was grumbling to me about this one dav at the Seal Rock House. “ ‘I hate tihe prospect of training.’ he said. ‘Training appeals to me jtist about as strongly as the charity soup appealed to the old aoole woman., “ Charity soup!’ said she. ‘Bosh! I’ll tell vou how tihey concoct that. They just take a quart of water and boil it down to a pint to make it strong.’ ”