Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1892 — Lost His Idea. [ARTICLE]

Lost His Idea.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, having risen one night, unintentionally aroused his wife, who inquired: “Are you sick, Waldo?” . “Oh, no, my dear,” was his reply, jnatter with these matches? I can’t make them ignite Let It go, now,” sighed the philosopher, “my idea is gone.” The next morning, upon arising, Mrs. Emerson found all the teeth in her comb broken out. This is supposed to have happened in the days (or nights), when matches came in cards. - - ' i