Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1892 — A Useful Proverb. [ARTICLE]

A Useful Proverb.

“She was so much attached to her first husband that she would not marry again till she went to his grave and asked his consent.” “How foolish! Of course she couldn’t get any reply. ” “No, but she married again, nevertheless; she remembered the proverb: ‘Silence gives consent.’ "—New York Press. •