Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — A MODERN SHREW TAMER. [ARTICLE]

A MODERN SHREW TAMER.

The Farson’s Way of Meeting and Subduing a Virago. While a well-known divine was still a lay preacher he was warned about a certain virago, and told that &he intended to gi\e him a tonguelashing. “All right,” he replied, “but that's a gatne at which two can play,” Not long after, as he passed her gate one morning, she assailed him with a flood of abuse. He smiled and said: “Yes, thank you. 1 am quite well. I hope you are the same.” Then came another outburst of vituperation, pitched in a still higher key, to which he replied, still smiling: “Yes, it does look rather as if it was going to rain; I think I had better be getting on!” “Bless the man,” she exclaimed, “he’s as deaf as a post; what’s the use of storming at him?” And so her ravings ceased and were never again attempted.—London TitBits.