Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1900 — Her Base Ingratitude. [ARTICLE]

Her Base Ingratitude.

When Duchenois, the great French actress, died, some one met an old man who bad been her intimate friend and who was apparently crushed with sorrow. Kindly meant professions of sympathy and consolation failed to cheer him. “For,” said he. “it is not so much her loss which troubles me as her base Ingratitude. Can you credit it? She left me nothing in her will, and yet 1 dined with her at her own bouse three times a week regularly for 30 years!”