Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1890 — A Pat Answer. [ARTICLE]

A Pat Answer.

“I saw Mrs. Bodkins to-day, William,, for the first time since she became a widow. She looked perfectly grp nd in her mourning suit, and seemed so happy there was no standing her.” “I guess she was glad to be rid of Bodkins.” “Perhaps. But what do you think she said ? That if you had any taste you’d give me a chance to come out in mourning, too. That made me angry, and I gave her a cutting answer she won’t soon forget?” “What did you say?” “I said I hoped that when it did hap* pen I’d be as happy a widow as she was.” “Oh, you did.”— Philadelphia Times, The late Cardinal Newman defined a gentleman as one who never inflicts pain. Few politicians are gentlemen.