Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1901 — Uninvited Guests. [ARTICLE]

Uninvited Guests.

Persons who want to save hotel bills are extremely likely to drop In at the parsonage—preferably one where the occupant has a limited salary and an unlimited family. The merest shadow of an excuse suffices for an Introduction, as in two cases which a clergy-' man reports la the Chicago - TimesHerald. “Once,” he said, “the last of our company had gone and no new arrival was expected. I felt that I could renew acquaintance with my family; and that we might sit down to a meal without strungers being present. Just then the door-bell rang. I opened the door myself, aud a young lady whom I had never seen before stood on the doorstep with a satchel in her hand. “ ‘Are you the Reverend Doctor Blank?’ she asked; “I told her that I was, and she Introduced herself as coming from Akron, Ohio. “ ‘I heard you preach In Akron when I was a little girl, and now I have come to spend a few days with your family and hear you preach again.’ “I handed her over to my wife and daughters, and she stayed a week, and treated us with the assurance oj an old friend." Another guest he liked to tell altout was a fussy woman from his native town, who had been waited on by every member of his family in turn, and who exacted constant attention. When she was leaving after a month’s visit, he went to the door to see her off, aud politely ventured to hope that her stay with them had been pleasant “I don’t know as I have anything to complain of,” was the depresslug answer.