Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1894 — Went to the Root of the Evil. [ARTICLE]

Went to the Root of the Evil.

This is woman’s age, and a businessman who knows says there is positively nothing that she will not undertake. He was lounging in his office the other day when the door opened and a welldressed, comely litt.e woman appeared. She wore a resolute expression in addition to other apparel and in her hand she carried a large tack-raiser. “GoM morning,” she said, winningly. “Is this Mr. Gash’s offioe. J Will you plesse tell me what chair it is that has that nail in it'r'-” Tup business-man was confused—the nico little woman was a total Granger to him. He answered wildly: “What chair!* What nail?” “Why,” she exclaimed, “my husband has come homo three times recently with dreadful holes in his coat and trousois and he said he tore them on a chair in your office. I’m tired of darning tho e rents and thought it would be more sensible and satisfactory to come down hero, pull the nail out, and be done with it Don't you think so?" .Still in a trance the merchant agreed with her, found the offending chair, extracted the nail and with many thanks and smiles the enterprising little woman withdrew.—New York World.