Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1894 — The Rhubarbs. [ARTICLE]

The Rhubarbs.

The growing fashion of naming private residences calls to mind the story told by Kirk Munroe of a witty woman who lived in an old-fashioned, quiet New England town. She wrote a note in response to an invitation to tea, dated at “The Elms,” or some such name, newly given by newcomers to the old homestead they had just acquired, and dated her reply from “The Rhubarbs.” “For," as she said, “it would never do not to call our place by some distinctive name, and there’s more rhubarb than anything else in our back yard.”—lndependent.