Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1905 — They Got the “Glassy Eye.” [ARTICLE]

They Got the “Glassy Eye.”

A certain confectioner in New York, who caters chiefly to the little folks of the neighborhood, lately arranged Ilia shop window with great care in preparation for a local festivity. The crowning attraction of the whole was a large chocolate tiger with most realistic green eyes, made of glass marbles, which had cost the designer 20 cents apiece. In the tiger's mouth was a card bearing the inscription: “Nothing In this window over 5 cents a quarter-pound.” A crowd of youngsters quickly assembled on the sidewalk, and presently, after much spelling over pf tbe'placard, two of them Invaded the shop and deposited a nicked upou the counter. , ‘‘Say. mister,” began the smaller boy, earnestly, “gimme a quarter o’ a pound o’ tiger—the piece with the eyes in!" If some people would work hard and earn SIO,OOO, some one would walk up, and, taking it away from them, tell them they bad no business with that much money.