Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — A Ministering Angel. [ARTICLE]

A Ministering Angel.

The other day 1 overheard twe ladies discussing the merits and de merits of their husbands. It hap pened their hubbies were present, which may account for a certair amount of praise that was lavished upon these specimens of the lords o! creation. Finally one of the ladies made th< remark that in many respects lieri was a model husband. The husband had been sitting ar interested but silent auditor, bul when he heard this remark it was too much for him and rising from his lolling position in a chair he said: “Well, I acknowledge it—l am forced to admit it.” This finds a parallel in an incidenl which happened iD an Illinois town several years ago. A gentleman whom I shall call John Smith, because it was really his name, was engaged during the winter months in cutting wood in thf Okaw Bottoms near* the town it which he lived. One day his as slipped and his foot was severed jusl above the toes. John mounted his wagon and drove to town, bursting into his wife’s presence more or less covered with blood. She looked, and, taking in the situation at a glance, exclaimed: “Oh, John, did you do that all at one lick?” It is impossible to tell whethei she really expected he would keej; chopping away at his foot until he had haggled it off.—New York Mercury.