Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1881 — Sentimental People. [ARTICLE]

Sentimental People.

Oh 1 how I detest your sentimental people preteudto be full of feeling, who will cry over a worm, and yet treat real misfortune with neglect. There are your fine ladies that I have seen in a dining-room, and when by accident an earwig has come out of a peach, atter having been half-killed in opening it, one would exclaim : “Oh ! poor thing ! you have broken its back—do spare it— I 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.” And then the husband drawls out: “My wife is quite remarkable for her sensibility ; 1 married her purely for that. ” And then the wife cries : “ Oh, now my lord, you are too good to say that; if I had not had a grain of feeling, I should have learnt 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 lialf-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.