Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1892 — Their Flrat Quarrel. [ARTICLE]

Their Flrat Quarrel.

“We had been married nearly two years,” said a citizen in “before my wife and I quarreled. Then It was over the most trivial matter in the world, the upsetting of a salt-cellar.” “But isn’t there a superstition about that?” asked his friend. “That was what we quarreled about—the superstition, not the salt. She remarked as I tipped it over, quite by accident, that it foretold a quarrel. I dare say that I was a little nettled at my awkwardness, and retorted rather sharply that I supposed that she had too much good sense to believe In superstition. She said the superstition, as I called It, had been accepted by greater minds than hers, and called me to account for sneering at established beliefs. Well, we had it hot and heavy, hammer and tongs style, and I slammed out of the house without a kiss or a good-by word.” “But you made up again?” “Yes. When I came home that evening I saw she had been crying. 1 looked at htfr a moment and then, well, we kissed and made up after the most approved fashion. And now,” be continued reflectively, “I have come to believe in old superstitions myself. I have made a study of them and find that these old saws were the result—not of ignorance, but' of observation.” “To be taken, however,” laughed his friend, “cum grano salis.” Edison is said to be perfecting a telephonic device by which the roaring and blustering of the sun spots can be heard by people on the earth. Talking contests of’universal interest can then be arranged to see which has the greatest endurance, the sun nr the telephone girl.