Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1910 — GATHERED SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GATHERED SMILES

MIS INCIVILITY. “Did the census man that called at your house ask you any Impertinent Questions, Mrs. Crossway?” inquired her neighbor. “O, no. I suppose he asked only the questions he had to ask. Yet he was extremely rude.” “In what way?” "In this way, Mrs. Kawler,” said Mrs. Crossway, with flashing eyes: “It had answered all his questions without making the slightest objection, and then —you know those Merdle people who live next door and how deceiving they are? Well, I thought he ought to know the truth about them, and I started to tell him the real ages of the women. He stopped me in the rudest and most uncivil manner, and said he'd thank me to attend to my own affaire; he didn’t need any assistance!”