Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — What Fell Out. [ARTICLE]

What Fell Out.

“The next time my wife asks me to bring home a fashion paper,” growled the baldheaded man, “I’ll tie it up tight before I leave the office. “I’ve been married twenty years, but everybody takes me for a bachelor. That’B where the rub comes In about this fashion paper. My wife asked me to bring one home last night, and I bought the thing at a news stand on the L station. Of feoorse I didn’t look at it When I reached my station I had to walk the whole length of the car to get out, and Just before I reached the door a boy came after me, touched me on the arm and banded to me a big sheet of white paper all marked over with black lines. “‘I beg your pardon,’ he said, *but you dropped this.’ “Then everybody In the car laughed. The thing was labeled ‘Mother’s Friend,’ and It was one of those paper patterns for things to go. over corsets.”—New York Press.