Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1891 — Misunderstood the Motive. [ARTICLE]

Misunderstood the Motive.

Most men are never so happy as when their heels are higher than their heads. If you said to a piazza group, “Make yourself unreservedly comfortable,” they’d all tilt their chairs back and hoist their feet to the railing. My friend next door had the foot-hoisting habit so badly that he wore the paper off the wall; so his wife thought out a biting, caustic bit of sarcasm, and one morning nailed on the wall right where the tell-tale marks were, a pair of slippers. But he misunderstood the motive completely, kissed her for her thoughtfulness, and forthwith tilted his chair back, and up went his feet to the most comfbrtable attitude he had struck in a long time, his heel held in the very convenient slippers.