Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1891 — Reciprocity. [ARTICLE]

Reciprocity.

A little. girl in my school, writes a Youth’s Companion correspondent, recently came to me in tears, regretting the fact that her father’s illness made it necessary for her to “leave and go to work. ” I bade her good-by, and with a schoolmarm’s hankering to keep a creditable pupil, added, “When your father is we'l come back to me.” Then, obeying a sudden impulse to take advantage of what I knew to be, in all probability, my last chance to influence' the precious waif for good, I said, “But if I never see you again I hope you will try to do your duty wherever you may be. Whatever work you may have to do, try to do it well. I hope you will be an honest, honorable woman. ” “Thank you, ma’am,” she replied, putting up her mouth to be kissed. “I wish you the same. ” The dear child! I know now what St. Paul meant by the “foolishness of preaching.”