Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1887 — Said Her Prayers in French. [ARTICLE]

Said Her Prayers in French.

It was a haughty Eastern lady, who had but dimly heard of this turbulent town, where people light their cigars with dynamite and you shoot a waiter for bringing you a potato that’s only half boiled. She did not know what language we talked, but she had no manner of doubt that we had heard of French. There was a San Francisco lady with her little child down on a visit, and the three foregathered. One night the Eastern lady was watching the San Franciscan mother putting her little 4-vear-old to bed, with the usual formulas. “Ah,” said the Eastern lady, “of course you haven’t got so far in these matters as we have?” “What do you mean?” “My children have all been taught to say their prayers in French.” The California mother blushed. She had to confess with shahm that her child could only speak tb God in English. But the little 4-yeartold was listening. She got up in bed land put her little hands together: / “Mon Dieu. Bonjour. Comment vous portez-vous ? Aiaen.” —San Francisco Chroni le. J '—— Mb. Frank L. Cox, foreman Herald and Times, Gouverneur, N. Y., writes: “I sprained my ankle very badly and suffered intense pain. One bottle of St. Jacobs Oil cured the sprains and reduced the swelling.”