Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1889 — TWO DINNER PAILS. [ARTICLE]

TWO DINNER PAILS.

Their Contents Threw Licht on the State of Affairs at Home. Two workmen sat down by the edge of a new building and prepared to eat their dinners which they had brought with them in covered baskets, and the sketch artist, who was waiting for a car. had the audacity to peer into the baskets to see how well a workingman can live. There was a great similarity in the appearance of the two men ant. in the outside of the baskets, but when the lids were raised they revealed totally different contents. One had light, sweet-looking homemade bread cut in thick white slices, some clean cut slices of cold meat, two hard boiled 'eggs, and a section of gooseberry pie. It was a regular picnic lunch, and it showed thrift, good cooking and a woman’s loving hand. The other mam’s was . a miscellaneous collection of broken bits, scraps of baker’s bread, cold fried potatoes, a sog’g’y bone and a crust of cheese. But herein lies a moral command-—judge not! As the. sketch artist stepped on the car the man with the appetizing lunch asked of his comrade: “Jimmy man, how is the old woman the day?” Very slowly the answer came: “Awful bad Mikey and gittin’ wuss,” and that little by-talk told the story of his home '•te nnH the nesrlected ' ♦ i ■ » Had her ■ . Lessle (who has beeu Jowl south i visit, writing hpnie/-Dear papu. ilia. < married without your consent, but Gerald s good and I love him. Papa (replying)-D ;ur Bessie, if your Gerald isn t a blank fool come home and bring him along, and m forgive you. Bessie (wiping again, in great perplex-ity)-Dcar papa, I don t know whether to bring him or not. What are your views as to the spelling of proper names! Gerald spells his last name : myth. ’ ■ i— Try A.l Bryers’ hand made Mascot•‘Cigar, only 5 cents.