Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — An Amended “Character.” [ARTICLE]

An Amended “Character.”

In Dresden female servants are required by the police regulations to keep a book,. in which the mistress enters dates of engagement and dismissal, reason for dismissal, etc. An English lady dismissed a German servant for impertinence, and entered in the book that she was discharged for rudeness, but was in every other respect a good servant. The girl camo back and reported that the police ordered the remark concerning her rudeaess’to be erased. On the lady refusing to comply she found herself summoned to the police court. She stood to her guns, however, like a good Englishwoman, and replied in effect: “Quod scripsl, scripsi.” Upon this the official who heard the case observed that if she would not erase the remark the police would, and a slip of thick paper was forthwith pasted over the entry.—London Truth.