Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — Passing the Toothpick. [ARTICLE]

Passing the Toothpick.

The fastidious denizen of the city who engages board for the summer in the country sometimes meets with strange experiences. A writer in the New York Mail tells of a friend of Sis who was recreating at a farm house in the Catskills, the owner of which regarded the toothpick an indispensable article after dinner. Thinking that economy in all things is necessary to accumulate a fortune, he imagined that the boarders were possibly not provided with toothpicks, and called out to his son at dinner: “Johnnie, pass the toothpick.” The boy produced the called-for article, and proceeded to make tho best possible use of it himself; and, when he had finished with it, offered it to the person next to him. It is neediest to say the toothpick went no further.