Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1901 — He Knew of the Ailment. [ARTICLE]

He Knew of the Ailment.

The bachelor who spends his Sundays in visiting his friends In the country proverbially has a "blue Monday” on his return. Sometimes his depressed mental state Is brought still lower by disagreeable neighbors on the homeward trip. One downcast traveler In the double seat of a railway car lately was greatly annoyed by his sentmate, a man whose flesh seemed to overflow, and who smothered the bachelor every time he turned a leaf of his newspaper. A peaceable person, and one rarely moved an anger, the bachelor found himself on this occasion so Irritable that he could not keep out of trouble; so, fully expecting that a fight Would follow, and rather hoping that it might, he leaned over and fetched the large man a fierce dig In the ribs with hid elbow. But only disappointment followed, for his neighbor turned and laughed in his face, and said, with misplaced sympathy: “Aha! Moudny morning grouch, I see. Had It myself, lots of times!"—New York Evening Post. Lots of men seem to think that there Is a patent on honest labor aud they don’t want to risk being Infringers. A girl’s Idea of a flatterer is a ruaq who Is always saying nlcs things t« other girls.