Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1899 — Not Strictly Poetic. [ARTICLE]

Not Strictly Poetic.

Mrs. Sherwood, speaking of Julia Ward Howe’s keen sense of the ridlcm lous, relates that once upon a time a lady at Newport, trying to get a fine sentiment out of her, said one moonlit evening on a vine-hung veranda: “Mrs, Howe, do say something lovely about my piazza.” Whereupon everyone list, ened for the reply. That delicately cultivated voice responded: “I think it i| a bully piaz.” There are said to be fewer suicides among miners than among any other class of workmen.