Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1896 — Cook Bides a Bike. [ARTICLE]

Cook Bides a Bike.

A lady living in the upper part of New York wanted a cook who would, go nome’Kt night,* and put an advertise” ment in the paper setting forth her needs. Among the applicants waa a negro woman of huge proportions. The lady looked at the negress and thought of her little kitchen. She did not want to state the real reason, for fear of giving offense, so she said: “I’m afraid that you would not get here in time in the morning, you live so far downtown.” “Don’t you fear about that, honey,” said the negress; “it won’t take me no time to come up on my bike.” The lady regrets now that she did not ask this wheel woman whether she wore bloomers or knickerbockers.