Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1905 — For Pleasant Dreams. [ARTICLE]

For Pleasant Dreams.

“It’s not everybody I’d put to sleep in this room,” said Mrs. J. to the fastidious and extremely nervous young minister who was spending the night with the family. “This room is full of sacred associations to me,” she went on. “My first husband died in that bed, with his head right on those very pillows, and Mr. J. died sitting right in that corner. Sometimes when I come into the room in the dark I think I can see him sitting there still. My own father died lying right on that sofa under the window. Poor pa! He was a spiritualist, and he always said he’d appear in this room again after he died, and sometimes I’m foolish enough to look for him. If you should see anything of him tonight you’d better not tell me, for it would be a sign to me that there is something in Spiritualism, and I'd hate to think that. My son by my first husband fell dead with heart disease right where you stand. He was a doctor, and there’s two whole skeletons in that closet that belonged to him and half a dozen skulls in that lower drawer. Well, good night and pleasant dreams.”—Tit Bits.