Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1895 — Influence of Imagination. [ARTICLE]

Influence of Imagination.

A Milwaukee merchant, in company with a friend, stopped at a country inn one hot summer evening. Being fatigued from the day’s journey, they at once retired. But they could not sleep, and finally the friend of the merchant suggested that the window be opened, as he could not sleep unless there was better ventilation. The merchant groped around in tbe dark, ahd at last found a window, which seemed riveted to the frame. His friend told him to smash it, as he would pay the damages. Having done so they at once passed off into dreamland and slept finely in the breeze which appeared to be wafted through the opening. When they woke up in the morning they found that they had smashed the door of a bookcase instead of the window.