Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Appreciative. [ARTICLE]

Appreciative.

A housokeerer whj has b?en employing an old washerwoman for several months .was surprised to see her appear the other day in a bat trimmed heavily with crape. “Why, Julia,” she asked, ‘‘is any one belonging to your family dead?" “No, no,” wai the reply,‘‘but one of my best customers gave me this hat, and I don’t want her to think I don’t ’predate nothin’.”