Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1896 — COLLECTING RENT. [ARTICLE]

COLLECTING RENT.

The Old Lady Took Her Knitting and Waited on the Doorstep. Commend me to the old lady In Rochester wbosougbtnovel and successful means In collecting her house rent laßt week. She was an old lady of Ideas and a knowledge of human nature gleaned from a lifetime of experience with the world. She owned a house and a lot in Rochester, and the Income from it was the substance upon which she depended for life’s necessities. It was rather an ostentatious house and lot, and the tenants were persons with a reputation to sustain, although apparently embarrassed for ready money! Two months’ rent was due, and the agent was not able to collect. The old lady said it was simple enough. She would collect It herself. Now, she wasn’t a stylish nor an artistic old In'dy, but she was sturdy and Imperturbable, and her proportions were ample and her spirit unfaltering. She rang the door hell at an early hour the other morning and Inquired for the head of the family. The servant glowed at her and said be was not to be seen yet for two hours, because the family had pot yet risen. The early caller was cheerful, and said she’d sit on the doorsteps and wait. Finally she was granted an audience Vith her tenant, who put her oft with smooth promises. “I’ll Just sit here and wait till you can pay it,” replied the righteous collector, and wlie settled herself once more on the doorstep, took some knitting from her basket and prepared to spend the day. She made a qualnt-looking picture, and all the neighbors wondered. When anyone came within conversing distance and stnred rudely at her she explained In a friendly way that she was waiting till the tenants paid their bent. She looked truthful, and ho one doubted her, and her plan worked like a charm. Tjjie rent was paid long before sundown, and home morp than ever convinced that nothing Is Impossible.—Philadelphia Press.