Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — Another Way Suggested. [ARTICLE]

Another Way Suggested.

A gentleman invited a certain lecturer to his house to take tea. Immediately on being seated at the table a little daughter of the house said to the guest abruptly: “Where Is your wife?” The lecturer, who had recently separated from his better half, was surprised and annoyed at the question, and stammered forth the truth: “I don’t know.” “Don’t knowf* repeated the child. “Why don’t you know?*’ Finding that the child persisted In her interrogation, despite the mild reproof of the parents, he decided to make a clean breast of the matter and have It oyer at once, so he said, with calmness: “Well, we don’t live together. We think, as we can’t agree, we’d better not.” He stifled a groan as the child began again, and darted an exasperated look at her parents . But the little tormentor would not be quieted until she exclaimed: “Can’t agree! Then why don’t you fight it out, the same as father and mother do?’ —Newcastle Chronicle.