Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1906 — How She Cured Him. [ARTICLE]

How She Cured Him.

An Impecunious young lawyer whose lack of clients, says a writer in the New York Sun, has sometimes caused him to visit a pawnshop told the following story, in which the joke was on himself: » My mother gave me a gold watch, which was often of more service to me as a pledge on which to borrow money in a pawnshop than as a timepiece. It grieved her to know that 1 made such use of her gift, and several times she furnished the means of redeeming it. One day, when I had gone a particularly long time without my watch, mother demanded the pawn ticket. Within a week she handed me my watch, and I promised, as usual, not to pawn it again. But the necessity returned, and I had recourse to the loan office. The pawnbroker glanced at the timepiece aud opened the inner case. His manner liecame formal. “Where did you get tills watch?" he inquired. “It was a present,” I replied. “Well, I’m going to hold it until you can prove it’s yours," he declared, and then, by way of explanation, “I suppose you didn’t read what’s engraved on the case?” “No,” I said faintly. “I’ll read it to you: ‘lf this watch Is offered for sale or pawn notify Mrs. There was nothing to do but go home and make a clean breast of It.