Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1902 — Making Preparations. [ARTICLE]

Making Preparations.

“I want to get a turkey, and a bottle of paregoric, and some mince meat, and some pepsin pills, and some cranberries, and some furniture polish, and a quart of oysters, and a package of court plaster, and some sweet potatoes, and a fire insurance policy.” Here the market man smiled merrily and inquired: “Going to eat all that?” “No,” responded the customer, "but the family Christmas dinner occurs at my house this year.”—Baltimore American.