Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1906 — Knew Her at Once. [ARTICLE]

Knew Her at Once.

Minister Wu once tnlked at a mothers’ congress in Washington. He told how mothers-in-law were reverenced in China. Then he said that all the mothers before him would be mothers-ln-law some day, and therefore he would! tell them something that they might remember and profit by. “A parlor maid.” be began, “answered a ring at the doorbell one morning and a few moments later ascended to her mistress. ‘lf you please, ma’am,’ she said, “the strangest lady Is downstairs. She won’t give her name, and she has taken off her coat and hat, and she opened the two closets and rummaged through them, and then she looked at the windows and shook her bead, and she rubbed her finger over the mantel and the piano, and then she held it up to see the dust on it, and now she is’— But the mistress Interrupted calmly. ‘Dear me!’ she said. ‘My husband’s mother wasn’t expected back from Texas till December.’ ”