Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — Too True to Be Sad. [ARTICLE]

Too True to Be Sad.

He was a busy man and she was a society woman. One evening he suddenly looked up from his paper and said: “By the way, didn’t we have a baby in this house about the time Midland Broad-Gauge went up to 98 ?” “Yes,” she said, “Oscar was born the night of the Everingham reception.” “Boy, was it?” he said with a show of interest. “I had forgotten; must be about 7 months old by this time. Where is he?” She touched a bell, a servant ap peared, and she ordered Oscar to be brought into the presence of his sire. Instead of whom the weeping nurse appeared alone, and with many tears confessed that the infant Oscar had been kidnaped in the park six weeks before, and that the most careful search, aided by advertisements in the daily papers, had thus far failed to reveal his whereabouts. Thus we dee that wealth is no barriei to sorrow, and even into the homes of the rich and the great trouble creeps with its stealthy tread, and sometimes breaks up a whole evening of enjoyment.—Burdette, in Burlington Hawkey e. ■ -