Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — Not Reassuring. [ARTICLE]

Not Reassuring.

A man and his wife who were about to take a trip to Washington, deeded that, as it was the beginning 0 f tbe season they had better invest in ; some new clothes. The.Y grown-up j children made fun of their “new” ap > (>a ranee, but it was not until the patents were safely settled in their seat? and had opened their bags that thev 'BsCbvered the joke that had been plim' d u P° n them. One bf the R rown ’ u P children had filled both Satchels with rice, and when father nml toother opened their bags the grains fivere scattered broadcast Of oi/ur#® there was at once an amused sn li,e 011 everyone’s face, and the mother felt herself getting redder than shi) li a( l ever been in her life before. She ' vvas m£ >de no more comfortable by a fat German woman sitting opposite, v bo leaned over and said, quite audits “Ach ne vor mind! I’m a vlilder voman n\ow bl ‘t by dis time next veek I’ll be infill same fix to’aelf.”