Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — Learned from a Woman. [ARTICLE]

Learned from a Woman.

If there is anything in which a wdman is supposed to be especially deficient, It is in sharpening a lead pencil in a neat and workmanlike manner; but a certain woman reporter on a daily paper was observed always to have her pencils most beautifully pointed. The masculine reporters watched her, but never succeeded in learning how she did It, and one day they sent a delegation to ask her about it “We have come,” said one of the delegates, hMnbly, “to gsk the secret of your gift as a pencil sharpener. Your proficiency humiliates uS.” “It is no secret,” she said with a smile. Thereupon she took a pencil from the hand of the speaker, raised the lid of her desk, drew forth a carpenter’s chisel, rested the end of the pencil on the edge of the desk, and deftly shaped it into a true cone with a few “shaves” of the sharp instrument “There,” she said, handing it back, “have you learned something from a woman?” “We have,” they said. And possibly the reader has also. The discovery that sheep flourish in Patagonia and Terra del Fuego has led to the stocking of enormous and very profitable ranches.