Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1910 — Self-Restraint. [ARTICLE]

Self-Restraint.

Ellen stopped scrubbing the veranda steps long enough to cast an admiring eye on her employer’s garden, “Sure they are fine posies ye have, doctor," she said. “I’ve a neat little house I bought tfith the money I’d put by, and an elegant garden It had last year, too, but now there's neither stick nor stalk In It.” “What was K, hens or dogs?” asked the doctor, sympathetically mentioning his own aversiona^* “Sure me neighbor—bad luck to her! •—had a ditch dug in her land, and tho water ran down into me garden, and washed all me seeds away.” “And what did you do about It?" “What could a poor lone body like me do?” "Well, didn’t you at least say something to the woman, complain or tell her that you wouldn’t stand It?” "Now, doctor, dear, hard wqrds Just leads to bad feelings among neighbors, and that ye know as well as I do; andi it’s not me that would be using them. So I only sahl'to her, ‘I hope I'll live to see the floods flowing over your grave as your ditch-waters have flowed over me garden,’ and I let It p .of that.” ; , . T . . Ty'; It’s awfully hard for a widower to convince his children that they need a new mother, A man can coax a woman to do any, thing she wants to.