Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1895 — Untitled [ARTICLE]

she had, sold It to a friend for her QtUe daughter. Having increased her capital 400 per cent, she invested it in a spool of crocheting cotton, with which she worked several small articles, and the sale of these brought her In $1.20. This was, in turn, used to purchase cotton material, out of which were made several dresses for small children that netted, when sold, the desired $5, when the alms basin was duly bought This story was told to a lady of socialistic views, who was constantly complaining that she was not rich, and saying she could lay so little by it was not worth while to save; the answer was: “Yes, she got her $5, but what a lot of work she had to do.”—Kate Field’s Washington. A Problem in Threes. If three little houses stood in a row, With never a fence to divide, And if each little house had three little maids At play in the garden wide, And if each little maid had three cats (Three times three times three), And if each little cat had three little kits, How many kits would there be? And if each little maid had three little friends With whom she loved to play, And if each little friend had three little dolls In dresses and ribbons gay, And if friends and dolls and cats and kits Were all invited to tea. And if none of them should send regrets, How many guests would there be? —Our Boys and Girls.