Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1899 — HIS WIFE COULDN’T COOK. [ARTICLE]

HIS WIFE COULDN’T COOK.

So he decided to apply for a divorce, for he considered he had good grounds therefor. But the Judge, after hearing his complaint, scratched the bald place on the top of his head, looked over his specs at the poor fellow, shifted the quid of tobacco to the other side of his mouth, and said:/‘You don’t need no divorce. You go home and ask your wife to forgive you. On the way home stop at A. F. Longs and buy a bottle of Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin, take it according to directions, and if you can’t eat anything in less than a week from biled cabbage up, come up t ome, and I will give you a divorce and alimony both.”