Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — Contented. [ARTICLE]

Con tented.

A well-known writer says the typical Canadian is characterized by a most unusuaU contentedness with his lot. An old man who was living with his wife in shanty on the. prairie, constructed of one-inch boards, within, and whose was mortgaged, heard that by tty? death of a relative in England inherited a large fortune. R -, The information came to him in the form of a newspaper cutting, sent by some friend. > f . Two or three months later an acquaintance offered congratulations. ~ “I suppose 4$ all right,” said the Canadian, “butJ, don't know. ” “Have you no'legal adviser?” “No,” was nis reply. “If they bring the money to us. we shall bo glad of it; but sjey must bring it! I shan’t bother:” | The of Lome has amusingly related lipw he tried in vain to discover grumblers in the great Northwest. C}he settler who was asked whether v he had anything to complain of regained for some moments meditat/iyely silent. Presently his face tynghtmredt and he exclaimed: t,,.. “Yes; It is cojtjl In winter and hot in summer, anth'the dust makes me wash myself twice a week!” To a similar,’question a Scottish woman answereyj; “Well, no; that is—l have not the English—but X.wad say that the milk is too rich,for the children!” Too many batfis and too rich milk! These are ills yrhich may surely be borne with fortitude.