Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1896 — Easily Satisfied. [ARTICLE]

Easily Satisfied.

A manufacturer of tombstones In a flourishing provincial town one day received a call from a customer who wished to buy a stone for his mother’s grave. After looking anxiously about for some time and making numerous remarks as to his mother’s taste he Anally fixed his gaze upon a stonei which the stone-cutter had prepared for another person. “I like this one," he said, decidedly; “I’ll take this.” “But that belongs to another man," remonstrated the stonecutter, “and It has the name ‘Francis’ cut on It, you see; that wouldn’t do for your mother.” “Oh, yes, it would,” responded* the countryman. “Mother couldn’t read; and besides,” he added, as he saw the stonecutter’s expression, “she’d like It all the better If she could read, for Francis was always a favorite name of hers, anyhow.” The story is suggestive of one told of a London tradesman suddenly grown rich, who, having set up his carriage In great state, went to a hamessmaker to have a silver letter put on the blinders of his horses. “What is the initial?” asked the harnessmaker. “The what?” said the rich man, looking blank. “What letter shall I put on?” inquired the harnessmaker, suppressing his amusement. / , “Well, I hadn’t quite made up my mind,” answered the customer, “but I guess W is about as handsome a letter as any, Isn’t It?" y’