Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1883 — Prosy Wires. [ARTICLE]

Prosy Wires.

The wives of men of sentiment are not always the most appreciative of women. Jean. Paul represents Siebenkas as reading one of his beautiful imaginings to his wife, who listened with eyelids cast downr and bated breath. As he closed, the sharer of his joys beamed forth with, “Don’t put on your left stocking tomorrow, dear; I must mend that hole in it.*’ So, when Sir Walter and Lady Scott were rambling about their estate, and came upon some playful lambs frisking in a meadow, “Ah,” said Sii; Walter, “’tis no wonder that poets from the earliest ages have made the lamb the emblem of peace and innocence.” “They are, indeed, delightful animals,” answered her Ladyship, “especially with mint sauce.”