Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1911 — Tact That Made Friends. [ARTICLE]

Tact That Made Friends.

There is on record a tale of a pineh , of snuff that turned enemies into friends. A well-known tobacco and snuff manufacturer’s son entered one of the crack English Cavalry regiments, to the great disgust of the aristocratic “gentlemen and officers” thereof. It was privately decided to make the intruder feel that he was not wanted in that exclusive unit of the service, and a neat plan was formed with that object As soon as the dessert was over and the wine was on the rounds, on the first night he appeared at mess his brother officers simultaneously took out their pocket handkerchiefs, and then ensued what was more like a sneezing competition than anything else. The one for whose benefit this little hint was intended looked around a moment in mild astonishment before taking in the lmpc<? of the display. Tjien he rose, dignified and calm, and with the politest air in the world, “Gentiemen,” he said, taking out a silver-mounted snuff box, “allow me to offer you a pinch of my father’s very best snuff.” From that moment all antagonism was at an end. *-•