Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1898 — AN UNKIND RETORT. [ARTICLE]

AN UNKIND RETORT.

What the Little Man’s Wife Said When He Spoke of Mrs. Gladstone. “No,” remarked the man In the car, “no, I can’it.say that I have my wife trained as perfectly as I could wish to have her trained, or that I shall be so fortunate as ever to have her so, but there is a good deal of pleasure in trying to. It at least gives her an Idea that slhe is not perfect, and as long as a man eon keep his wife In that state of mind it is almost as much of a comfort as it Is to have her just what he wants her to be.” “GechooMplns!” exclaimed the little man, with a pale-blue eye and a fidgety manner, “I wish I could only get my wife to your way of thinking.” “Did you ever try?” inquired the early morning man. “Did I?” chuckled the little man. “I should say I did. It hasn’t been half an hour since. I had something to stay to my wife on the lines you suggest, and was endeavoring to get an opening for my remarks, but she was talking to such an extent that I had no show at all. Finally, quite driven to desperation, but not wishing to do anything violent, I merely gave her a hint of the situation by telling her that when Mr. Gladstone talked his wife always listened in silence. And did she take it as I intended?” he asked of himself. “Did she?” inquired the other, with much Interest. “Did she?” chuckled the little man. “Well, says she to me, ‘I don’t doubt it at all, but think who it was that Mrs. Gladstone was’listeing to,’ and then she went right ahead with her conversation as if I hadn’t been within ten miles.”