Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1894 — An Explanation. [ARTICLE]

An Explanation.

Texas Siftings. A wealthy New York gentleman, who has got a frisky wife, observe# .that His footman bad bought an entirely new suit of clothes and had his beard dyed .. “What a ridiculous idea that isfor you to be fixing up that way,” said the gentleman. “Well,” said the footman, “you dye your mustache and fixup, too.” “I know that, but I do it to please my wife.” “Well, ain’t that what I do it for?” CMrs. George W. Childs has had preserved in scrap book form, admirably arranged and classified, all the press and periodical notices prompted by the great philanthropist’s death. These, as might be expected, make an enormous amount of eulogistic literature.