Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1899 — She Got There in Time. [ARTICLE]

She Got There in Time.

“Madam,” said the fat man to the bedraggled woman who boardeji the car, “could not you have told that it was going to rain when you. left the house?” “Yes, sir, I could,” she promptly replied. “Yes, I saw that jt was going to rata, and I had no umbrella, but it was the last day of the sale of 39-cent perfumery for 9 cents a bottle, and I had to get down to the store or miss the biggest bargain of the century.”