Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1899 — An Unpleasant Reminder. [ARTICLE]

An Unpleasant Reminder.

James doesn’t go to church often, but his mamma took him there last Sunday. Now she wishes she hadn’t. He sat demurply enough until the tenor, who indulges in a dreadfully inexcusable tremolo, had finished his solo. Then he spoke up. “Mamma,” he asked in a shrill whisper, “what makes the man’s voice shake so?” “Hush, dear,” said mamma. “I don’t know.” “But, mamma,” the little scamp persisted in a still louder whisper, “you know when papa’s voice shook the other night you said it was beer!” And that’s why Jamie’s church privileges have been so rudely cut off.— San Francisco Examiner.