Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — OLD-FASHIONED RELATIVES. [ARTICLE]

OLD-FASHIONED RELATIVES.

A L'ttle and Aged Mao Inquire* if “ Willie” Can Be Seen. Relatives of the old-fashioned sort are sad disturbers of the dignity of the rising generation, especially when they trot out pet names in public, as all fond parents of tbe old-fash-ioned sort invariably insist on doing. It’s a difficult thing for a parent to realize, anyway, that his child has grown up. There is a young man in a position of great trust in one of the largest mercantile establishments of this town. He came from the country originally, but would rather have that forgotten. Yesterday a little old man entered the counting-room. He was done up in about five lengths of red-and-yellow scarf, and gave other evidences of bailing from the latitude of Johnson’s Creek or Findley’s Lake. “1$ Willie in?” he asked the clerk at the counter. “Willie? Who’s Willie?” questioned the puzzled youth. “Why, our Willie. He's clerkin’ it here, ain’t he?” The young man was about to reply that Willie was not on his visiting list, when the stately gentleman who is known to the head of the flrm as “William,” to the cashier and the principal bookkeeper as “Will,” and to the other employes as “Mr. Jones.” with the accent on the “Mister,” came forward and greeted the visitor as “father. ” But he will never again be called any name in that establishment, even by the smallest office boy, except “Willie.”—Buffalo Express.