Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1916 — Light as Chaff [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Light as Chaff

Rather a Leading Question. A colored woman had been haled before a police magistrate of a southern town charged with inhuman treatment of her offspring. Evidence was clear that she had severely beaten the child, about nine

years of age, who was in court to exhibit his battered person. Before impos ing sentence bis honor asked the woman whether she had anything to say. “Kin Ah ask yo’ jes’ one

question, jedge?” inquired the prisoner. The judge nodded affirmatively. “Well, yo’ honah, Ah’d like to ask whether yo’ was ever the parent of a puffectly wuthless culled chile?’’— Country Gentleman. The Bashful One. “I wonder,” said the youthful astronomer, who was slow to do what was expected of him, “if —if you would let me associate you with some star—Venus perhaps, the star of love?’’ “Well, no,” said the lady addressed thoughtfully. “I wotild rather you thought of me as Saturn.” “Indeed! Why?” “Oh, well, you 'know, didn’t you tell me that Saturn has a ring?” He bought one the next day.