Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Not Piety, but Pork. [ARTICLE]

Not Piety, but Pork.

The following bit of non-conformist humor is taken from “The Farringdons," an English romance. The speakers are Mrs. Bateson and Mrs. Hankey, worthy wives, but slot altogether above feeling a certain pleasure in showing up the ways of husbands. “They’ve no sense, men haven’t,” said Mrs. Hankey, “that’s what’s the matter with them.” "You never spoke a truer word, Mrs. Hankey,” replied Mrs. Bateson. "The very best of them don’t properly know the difference between their souls and their stomachs, and they fancy they are a-wrestllng with • their doubts when really it Is their dinners that are a-wrestling with them. “Now take Bateson lilaself,” continued JUrs. Bateson. A kinder husband or better Methodist never drew breath, yet so sure as he touches a bit of pork, lie begins to worry hisself about the doctrine of election till there's no living with him. And thou he’ll sit in the front parlor and engage In prayer for hours nt a time till I says to him: “ ‘Bateson.’ says I, Td be ashamed to go troubling the Lord with a prayer, when a pinch o’ carbonate o’ soda would set things straight again.”