Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1919 — The Rubber Tree. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Rubber Tree.

The rubber tree was discovered by a Jesuit missionary, Father Mancelde Esperanca, on a journey among the Cambelas Indians of South America. He named it scringueira, because he remarked that the savages used the sap of this tree, which hardens quickly, to make rude bottles shaped like a syringe.

uncomplimentary. Harry I had brain fever once. Alice —How did they handle it — by some sort of absent treatment?

GOOD FLACH. What a ficklemind he is. Has to be. He’s in the weather bureau.

Y‘ CAN’T BLAME HIM. She: Why don’t you wear your high hat any more? He: Afraid I’ll be accused of being effeminate.

MID-CHANCE. Well, old chap, how have you been since you embarked on the sea of matrimony. Oh-er-just a little seasick at times.