Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1902 — Doubtful Praise. [ARTICLE]

Doubtful Praise.

Mr. Faxon waa the oldest patron of the “select boardlnjg-house” In which he lived, and his landlady sometimes referred people to him for a recommendation of her table. His wish was to praise the food highly, as he eould conscientiously do, but one day he overstepped his mark. - “I’m dyspeptic, sbr,” said a man who had gone to Mr. Faxon to make Inquiries about the boarding-house, “and my food has to be simple and well cooked. No high seasoning, no Indigestible compounds." Mr. Faxon looked at him with a bland and reassuring smile. “My dear sir," he said, In his most Impressive manner, “you need have no fears. All I have eaten in the ten years I have been under Mrs. Brown’s root would not Interfere with the digestion of the most delicate baby, air, tn the land!"