Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Uncle Bob's Lesson. [ARTICLE]

Uncle Bob's Lesson.

Madame Betsey Patterson Bonaparte, the sister-in-law of an emperor, was born in Baltimore, ami, ufter living many years abroad, returned to her native land, where she passed the last years of her life. She was a weman of great beauty, but of an ungovernablo temper. A writer in the Boston Transcript tolls how her tense of humor once enabled her to accept a reproof graciously. One of the old lady’s crack stories in her latter davs was of a lesson in etiquette given nor by the black butler of her host. At break fastr she motioned to him and handed him her cup, wishing a second cup of tea. Uncle Bob, instead of taking tho cup to his mistress at the head of tho table, put it down with a groat flourish on the sideboard. “But I wanted another cup of tea,” said Madame Bonwarto. “Did you, mum?" blandly asked Uncle Bob. “You see, mum, you put your spoon in do saucer, an’ that moans you doan’- want no mo’ toa. When you wants some mo’ tea, de c’rect way is to put de spoon in de cup like dis heah.” And Uncle Bob gravely illustrated the correct method of procedure. The family were on .thorns, expecting an outbroak from tho sister-in-law of although there is no doubt thait a bitick butler in his own bailiwick could faco an emperor himself; but Betsey was only amused, and laughed heartily. After fifty years of money-getting and money-saving, she realiz'od in the latter part of her life how futllo it was, and exclaimed, grimly, "Once I had everything but money! Now I have nothing but money.”