Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1909 — Not Her Husband. [ARTICLE]

Not Her Husband.

Mrs. De Troop (who Is shortsighted) —Good morning, Mrs. Simpkins. Your husband must be very fond of gardening. I see him the first thing every morning down in the bottond of the garden. And how well he looks, to be sure. Mrs. Simpkins turned her back and slammed the door in her neighbor’s face. The latter, aghast, went to tell her daughter. “And you told her, mother, that the thing in the onion bed was her husband?" “Of course I did." "Well, that’s not her husband, that’s a scarecrow.”