Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1908 — Breaking the News. [ARTICLE]

Breaking the News.

The matrimonial failure of Pat, a bartender in the center of the city, has been common knowledge for some time, and it has also been no secret that Pat really does not blame his wife for her Impatience with his habits. Pat is In dead earnest when he says that his wife really iB too good for him and deserves a divorce, which the self-abasing Pat would gladly grant her if It wasn’t so expensive. The good faith of Pat In this respect was, however, never more forcibly LI--lllstratecL- than during tha severe attack of pneumonia from which he has Just recovered. “Pat, the doctors say you are very sick,’’ said his wife during her visit to the hospital one day. “What do they really say? You can’t hurt me by telling the truth,” answered Pat. “Well, Pat, they say that you cannot live," whispered the wife, .finally yielding to Pat’s Insistent demand for the truth. “Don’t you believe It. Doctors make a habit of holding out hopes to the last,” drawled Pat in his wearisome style. ‘They are ouly breaking the news to you gently. I am going to get well.”—Philadelphia Record.