Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1910 — A Test of Sociability. [ARTICLE]

A Test of Sociability.

“Miss Eliza Beemis is just as nice as she can be,” declared her neighbor, Mrs. Elderly, “but there’s one out about her that I don’t like. She isn’t sociable.” friend expressed surprise at this accusation, and began to defend Miss Eliza. “I know, I know,” said Mrs. Elderly, breaking In; “that’s all very well, but tell me this: did you ever see her going around to the funerals? No, of course not, and so I don’t see how you can call her sociable —real sociable, that is.”