Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1891 — Sarah Battle and Whist. [ARTICLE]

Sarah Battle and Whist.

I never in my life—and I knew Saralr Battle many of the best years of it—saw her take out her snuff-box when it was her turn to play; or snuff a candle in the middle of a game; or ring for a servant till it was fairlv over. She never introduced or connived at, miscellaneous conversation during the process, as she emphatically observed, cards were cards; and if I ever saw unmingled distaste in her fine last centurycountenance, it was at the airs of a. young gentleman of a literary turn,, who had been, with difficulty persuaded to take a hand; and who, in his excess of candor, declared that he thought, that there was no harm in unbendingthe mind now and then, after serious studies, in recreations of that kind! She could not bear to have her noble occupation, to which she wound np her faculties, considered in that light. It was her business, her duty, the thing she came in the world to do—and she did it. She unbent her mind afterward over a book. —Charles Lamb. In seasoning casks by the addition of' soda to the water more substance is removed from the wood thnn when acid isemployed, bnt less is removed if thewood is introduced into the cold solution, and the whole then heated.