Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Wouldn’t Do for America. [ARTICLE]

Wouldn’t Do for America.

When ladies go to, buy. a dress In Japan they tell the shopkeeper their age and if they axe married or dot, because there are special designs fortlie single and double relations -of life, as well as for ages. The consequence of .this painful custom Is that you can tell the age of every lady you meet, and know whether she is married, precisely as though she were labeled or you were a census taker. Did you ever know times to be so hard that yon had to do without pie? Then quit kicking, v* *