Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1881 — Sentimental People. [ARTICLE]

Sentimental People.

Oh! how I detest your sentimental people who pretend to be full of feeling, w’ho will cry over a worm, and yet treat real misfortune with neglect. There are your fine ladies that I have seen in a diningroom, and when by accident an earwig has come out of a peach, after having been half-killed in opening it, one would exclaim, “Oh ! poor thing ! you have broken its back—do spare it—l can’t bear to see it suffer. Oh, there, my Lord! how you hurt it; stop, let me open the window, and put it out.” AM then the husband drawls out, “My wjfe is quite remarkable for her sensibility; I married her purely for that," And then the

wife cries, “ Oh, now, my Lord, you are too good to s&y that; if I had not had a grain of feeling, I should have learned it from you.” And so they go on praising each other; and perhaps the next morning, when she is getting into her carriage, a poor, half-starved woman begs charity of her, and she draws up the glass and tells the footman another time not to let those disgusting people stand at her door. — Lady Stanhope.