Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1906 — Editor’s Vacation. [ARTICLE]

Editor’s Vacation.

“Did I go away for my vacation?” repeated one of the editors on a certain morning newspaper, “not I. I stayed right at home and got acquainted with my wife, courted her all over again, and even dug odt our old marriage certificate. You see," most of the year I sleep daytimes, my profession keeping:me at the office most of the, pressed .curiosity aboittfthe mysterious Man comes to my house in the wee sniff -hours with such haunting exciting, to sit on my own porch in the broad day-light, and Sj^vray' ofmore boisterSuif delights I walked up and down my green-sward, ‘wid the sun a-shinin’ bright.’ Every year I put in my vacation time convincing my wife that she Is a married woman, and has a real, live -husband, thereby reconciling her to the remainder of the year.*’—Chicago Inter-Ocean.