Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1903 — Useful as Well as Ornamental. [ARTICLE]

Useful as Well as Ornamental.

“What ups and downs there are in life—even in one short twelvemonth of existence!” gloomily observed Air. Younghusband, as he climbed out of the connubial couch at midnight’s chilly hour, fell over a rocking chair and then, limping, made his way toward a erlh. In which a fretful infant with soleleather lungs was wildly pawing the atmosphere and emitting hair-raising howls of agony. “Yes,” he went on, bitterly, reaching for the complaining bundle of humanity In the crib and cradling It on his arm, “one brief year ago I m-ifted myself on being chief partner In the matrimonial firm. Now, hang it, I find I am only floorwalker In the Infant swear department!” ' And with a hoarse chuckle at his own wit he continued to walk.—New York Times.