Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — An Oid Dady's Boast. [ARTICLE]

An Oid Dady's Boast.

Those who have charge of charitable institutions for the aged poor will tell you that no topic is more pleasing to some poor old women than the discussion of their “better days,” when tney were the fortunate possessors of “everything heart could wish for,” as they are apt to express it ’ Ono old lady never tires of describing the finery she had when she was a bride; another boasts of having once owned a “gold-band oh&ny tea-set'’ and six “solid silver teaspoons;* while a third dwells at groat length on the elegance of a flowered silk gown and a satin parasol with fringe fifteen inches long, that she pnoo owned. < >ne poor old woman never tays anything until thp, others are done boastlug. Then she qalrnly remarks: "Well, I npvor had no chany tea things, not 1 nd silk gowns nor embroidered peitidoats, nor open-work stockings, nor gold ear-drops, nor nothin’ of i that sort; but I have had four husbands, an’ I’d like to know if any of you can beat thatl*