Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1903 — KNITTING-WORK. [ARTICLE]

KNITTING-WORK.

The Old Man Cut Up Wood While He Was Kentiiig. Aunt Alvlm Fifer was what her neighbors called a "regular driver,” Possessed of untiring energy and unfailing strength herself, she made little allowance for idleness on the part of nny one; and she declared, says a contributor to Lippincott's Magazine, that she could “put up with a meuo man easier than with a lazy one.” Aunt Alvlra's husband, Uncle Ethan, was n small, wizened, weak-looklng man. whom Aunt Alvlra declared to be "inlghty wiry, if he did look so spindlin’." One day a summer boarder who chanced to be staying at a farmhouse near the Fifer homestead wandered over to the little brown farmhouse and sat down for a chat with Aunt Alvlra. The visitor took note of the enormous quantity of stove-wood plied up In the back yard and overflowing from the great wood-shed. The whole yard was strewn with It. The caller estimated that there were not less than twenty-five cords. "What an enormous quantity of wood you have," he said to Aunt Fifer. "Yes, there la considerable," she replied. "I cal'lnte on sellln’ most of It in the fall.” “Who cut It?" “Oh, Ethan did it as sort o’ knlttln’work. 1 think It’s a good thing for a man to have some kind of knittin’work to do when he’s restin', and that wood-pllo has been Ethan’s knlttln’work." Hot or cold lemonade, with or without sugar, is very grateful at tiny time, or if one Is feverish or has a cold. Fasting, rest In bed, and lemons would work wonders in many a case of cold and grip.