Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — Warm Enough. [ARTICLE]

Warm Enough.

Generally speaking, practical Jokes are to be avoided, as they are commonly more productive of harm than of amusement. But occasionally there is one so spontaneous and appropriate as to be quite pardonable. Two young men were room-mates at Harvard, They wore not only roommates but fast friends, and shared their joys and .sorrows as well as their apartments; but neither was averse to a wholesome laugh, either at his own or the other's expease. They had two rooms—a commodious study and a small bedroom, large enough, however, for eaeh to have his own separate bed. It happened one particularly cold night last winter that boththe young mfrn had passed the evening out. About eleven o’clock the first one reached his room; he had ridden out from Boston in a slow car, and was very cold. The tire in the grate was low; nnd the bedroom, which had been left with door closed and window open, was exceedingly cold; but the student was resolved to make the best of the situation. First spreading his ulster over his bed, he went to the closet and helped himself to all the coats- ho found there; and putting these over the ulster, he crawled under the pile, and was soon as snug and comfortable as .a cat under a.stove. He had Just got well asleep when in came his chum, half-frozen. “Well," he said, “Jack's got his whole wardrobe over him. It’s a good idea; I!ll do it, myself.” But on going to the closet* he found that all his clothes had already been appropriated. He stopped amoment to think the situation over, and then exclaimed, “Well, Jack, old man, If you’re as cold as- that, I’ll see what I can do to make the night comfortable for you." 1 This he proceeded to do. First he spread several newspapers on the pile of clothes, that covered the contented sleeper; on i tdiese be laid three brge rugs that he took from the floor; over these he distributed several cushions taken from different chairs; and.over all. he placed a pair of portieres-taken. down specially for that purpose, On. top of these he folded and spread a heavy tennis net, using the cord to tie the whole huge pile in place. Then tossing his ulster over his own bed, ho got in and chuckled himself to sleep. Jack in the meantime slept on, unconscious of tlic great burden he boM{ but in the morning, when with great effort he got his- eyes open and took in the situation, ho slowly said: “Well, Fm glad' It’s only clothes; I’ve been trying all nightlong to burrow out from under the Rocky Mountains."'