Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1902 — BALKED ON RED FLANNEL [ARTICLE]

BALKED ON RED FLANNEL

Georgia Man Tells His Troubles to Chicago Newspaper. Being from down in Georgia, where conditions are different from what they are In this climate and acting on the advice and by the orders of Abby, my wife, I write on a matter of deep concern to Abby and me. My question is this: When ought a fellow who works out of doors to put on flannel underwear in Chicago? My wife is plum scared for fear I’ll get sick if 1 don’t wear flannel. She says every man up here wears flannel. I wore them one day. They done like to made me fall from grace that day. I never could have believed such a devil was in them red things. I was clean dumbstruck silly with their action. Talk about 1,000 tongues to sing! I needed 1,000 hands to scratch! 1 yanked them off that night and betwixt us as man to man I cussed them. Then I told Abby: “I reckon we had best light out for Georgia if I have to wear such truck.” She let me alone for a week, then she got started and it’s no use; I reckon I done got to wear them pesky things. I wish youall would put it in the paper that a man doesn’t need flannel until long after Christmas. This will soothe her worry and put off trouble for me and the Lord knows what might happen before Christmas comes, though I must say I like this town first-rate and would hate to leave it—Letter to Chicago News.