Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1882 — Being Neighborly. [ARTICLE]

Being Neighborly.

He was a small boy with dirt on his nose and a faded straw hat on his head, and feet so long unwashed that it was hard to tell where his toe-nails were located. He walked boldly up the steps, pulled the bell, and when the lady oame to the door he said : “ Say, can you lend ma your telephone for a few minits ?” “ Why, I can’t 1” she gasped out. “We’ll bring it back in half an hour.” “ But I can’t lend it, child. You don’t seem to know what a telephone is. Who are you?” “We live around the oorner—just movod in, and we want to be neighborly. I tried to borrow your wheelbarrow and shovel, but your boy wouldn’t lend 'em, and our hired girl has been over to borrow tea and sugar and couldn’t get any. We kinder thought we might borrow your telephone or something and ma would bring it bock and get a chance to see your style, and ask you to run right in with your old clothes on !”—Detroit Free Presft. In life it is difficult to say who do you most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friend? wish the best,— Buliver Lytton,