Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1889 — Jest Her Size. [ARTICLE]

Jest Her Size.

Miss Blufflns—l want a pair of slippers. Two and a half is my size. Clerk—What! two and a halfP Miss B.—l believe I spoke distinctly —two and a half. [Tho clerk seizes a pair of slippers and a blue pencil, and retires to the rear of the store. Presently he returns.] Clerk—Here you are, Mise—two and a half, extra narrow. Miss B. tries on the slippers and aooepts them. After her exit, the clerk says to the proprietor: “You had better order some of those No. 5 B’s. I just sold her the last pair.”—-Amer-ica.