Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1881 — Trying Visitors. [ARTICLE]

Trying Visitors.

Hard as it is to bear with jgrace the trials caused by agents, there is another class of visitors Whose calls are fully as unwelcome. Indeed I believe it is easier to get through the troubled hall-hour in which the broken-down minister—that pathetic figure which so frequently darkens our door —introduces to our notice his wonderful “Faith Cure;” or that in which the audacious young man polishes one leg of a table, thereby disgracing the other three forever; or the Jroung man who, holding the book closey in his own hand, forces us to listen to sentences from it relating to matters of etiquette (it Beems almost like the irony of fate for an agent to solicit names for his book) —I repeat, it is easier to bear these afflictions than itis to haveaneighbor or acquaintance drop in in a friendly way and ask one to subscribe a sum of money to some charitable object. Let us picture to ourselves a woman who is trying to do a good three hours’ work in two, and she might give a little time to the particular employment which is a delight to her, and who wi&hes not only to make both ends meet, bnt lap over a little at the end of the year; who has a way for every dollar and even for every Suarter of a dollar—think what it is to er to be interrupted and hindered, to have her nerves unsettled by the effort it costs her to give or refuse. I have known a woman who had just enough to pay for her children’s stockings, and who did not see her way clear to another dollar that month, to give two-thirds of it towards a camp-chair for the sexton of her church, and the other third helped to pay for a silver card-case for the minister’s wife. It was hard to patch and dam the children’s stockings as she was obliged to, but it was harder still to refuse her dear sister in the church when she said in so convincing a tone, “Of course you wish to give a little when the rest are doing so.” A young married lady told me not long ago that she believed she had given enough cake during the year for festivals and church parties to have Btocked a first-cla* bakery for three months; “and I didn’t know how to do it; I could not afford it, but I couldn’t refuse.” One may agree perfectly with Mr. Emerson when he says that “a man’s money should not follow the direction of his neighbor’s money, but should represent the things he should willingliest do with it.” But let a friend pay her the delicate compliments of allowing her to head a subscription, and see what she will do! “I have a paper here which I know you' want to sign,” said a mau to a neighbor; “wo wish to raise funds to prosecute any one who sells cider without a license.” “I can not sign it; I have other ways just now for my money,” was the reply. “Oh, then you, a mother, wish to countenance the' drunkenness in this town!” was the unjust and uncharitable inference. Subscription papers are often lengthened in order to avoid the misconstruction mentioned here, and money which ought to go toward paying the necessary expenses of a household is taken from tlie reluctant hand of a woman who can not say no. I sometimes think it would be a good thing for our legislators to look into, and that some kind of a bill might be passed protecting women from the agent and the bearer of a subscription papflr.— E. W. B. in New York Evening Post.

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