Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1909 — Pipe Dreams. [ARTICLE]

Pipe Dreams.

Up in the choir loft the row -of painted angels which ornamented the apex of each organ pipe started down into the pit of frivolity below. “Ah,” gushed the tall soprano, as she gazed up at the remarkable looking seraphs, “aren’t they dreams?" “Yes,” murmured the short tenor, as he disagreeably spurned with his foot the double pile of hymn books which he stood upon to secure the dignity of height, “but, like all other angels we know anything about, they are only pipe dreams.”