Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — Lazy Philosophy. [ARTICLE]

Lazy Philosophy.

Mrs. Ascum —Doesn’t that lazy husband of yours work for you at all? Mrs. Jackson—’Deed, ma’am, he say he ain’t gwine ter, kase lie’s a-tryin’ to lib up to the bible teaehin’. Mrs. Ascum—What bible teaching? Mrs. Jackson—He say de bible done tell us dat “Contentment am bettah dan great riches,” so he des nacher’ly bound ter be contented. —Philadelphia Press.