Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 246, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1914 — DEFINITION OF GENTLE HINT [ARTICLE]

DEFINITION OF GENTLE HINT

Unele Cal Told Unwelcome Visitor to Quit Coming Around Because Ho At# Too Much. Qoorge W. Perkins said in Chicago, apropos of the "gentle hints” .feat the government has given to big business: "These ■ gentle hints, these loving hints, remind me of old Uncle Calhoun Clay. “Uncle Cal’s daughter, Lil, bad a sweetheart, one Washington White, and Washington had the habit of beginning Ms evening calls very early—at supper time, in fact. Uncle Cal was the soul of hospitality, but, not being a rich man, he found it difficult to feed Wash five or six times a week, and so he told his wife and daughter he’d have to give the young man a hint, just a gentle hint, about how the land lay. “So the next time young Washington White turned up for supper, old Uncle Cal from the head of the table first asked the blessing; and then looked at the unwelcome guest over his glasses and said: “ ‘Look-a-heab, Misto Wash. Ah has too wuk mighty hard fo’ ter make a livin’ fo’ dish-yeah fambly, and Ah ’specks yo’ better quit cornin’ round so often. De fact is, yo’ eat too much!’” Minneapolis Journal.