Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1892 — They Have Yet Much to Learn. [ARTICLE]

They Have Yet Much to Learn.

It is said that at the reception given by Mrs. Potter Palmer to the 110 Congressmen, even Western etiquette was shocked at the performance of some of its guests. These 110 representatives each brought his wife and children, and the wife of the “honorable member from Texas” came in a linen duster and put her child to sleep in the library at 10 o’clock. Another offspring of this same Texan family amused herself by skating on the mosaic floor of the drawing room!

If you talk about your neighbors the people say you are a gossip. If you talk about yourself they say you are an egotist. Therefore the man who set the example of talking about the weather was a benefactor to his race.