Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1910 — Not Aptly Worded. [ARTICLE]

Not Aptly Worded.

An absurdly worded statement of a fact which was not in Itself remarkable recently tried the gravity of the listeners. It was on the occasion of the funeral of an elderly woman in a New England town. She had left an old mother, nearly ninety years of age, and an only son who was well on toward fifty. The services were conducted by a timid young clergyman recently settled over'the parish. After praying for many and various things he said: “And two we especially pray that the comfort and sustain In their loss and sorrow. One is the orphan, who, although no longer young,. Is an orphan still and must so continue. The other is the mother, far advanced in years, who has survived her daughter, although considerably her senior "—Youth’s Companion.