Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1914 — HE SHOULD HAVE THE BEST [ARTICLE]

HE SHOULD HAVE THE BEST

All the Hospitable Instincts of the Mother Were Aroused at Artist’s Modest Request. Ralph Perkins, an artist making a sketching tour through Rhode Island, chanced one day upon a picturesque old barn, so alluring to his eye that he sat down on a stone wall and immediately set to work. , He soon became aware that he had two spectators In the persons of the farmer and his wife, who had come to watch him. Presently the artist discovered that he had lost his rubber eraser, and, correct an error in the sketch, he wtent up to the farmer’s wife and asked her If he might have a piece of dry bread. This, as is universally known, made a good eraser. The farmer's wife looked at him with an expression of pity not .unmixed with surprise. y “Dry bread!” she repeated- .“Well. I guess you won’t have to put up with drv bread from me, young man. I’ve

got sons of my own oat In the world. Ton come right into the kitchen with me, and Hl give you a nice slice of fresh bread with butter on it. No, not a word," she continued, raising her hand to ward off his expostulations. ‘1 don’t care how you came to this state, nor anything about it; all I know is you’re hungry, and I’ve never yet allowed anybody to leave my house craving food" —Lippincott’s Magazine.