Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1889 — Conquering Him. [ARTICLE]

Conquering Him.

The ill-nature of many men will vanish in the presence of their favorite dishes on the dinner-table, a fact that has given rise to the old saying that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. The writer once boarded with an irritable elderly man, who gave laughable illustrations of the truth of this adage. When things had gone wrong with the choleric old gentleman, his wife would slyly say to her daughter, who assisted in the cooking: “We’d better have apple dumplin’s to-day, .Sarah, your pa is so out of speerits. I intended having a pot-pie, bat he don’t care much f>r that, and you know how fond he is of dumplin's." When the “dumplin’s” appeared the old gentleman’s wrath would speedily vanish. Sometimes the wise old lady would scatter an impending storm and keep it from breaking by appearing with a plate of doughnuts or joie, and saying: “Here, pa, you’d better eat this; nobody else wants it. and it’s just settin’ ’round in the way. ”