Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1900 — Afraid of It. [ARTICLE]

Afraid of It.

The entire family were assembled about the deathbed. They stood there silently, in deep thought. “No,” they finally told the salesman, “we won’t take it Show us one of the old-fashioned kind that don’t fold up.” —Philadelphia Press.