Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1908 — Tolstoy’s Sense of Honor. [ARTICLE]

Tolstoy’s Sense of Honor.

At one music party at Count Tolstoy’s a lady’s singing displeased the count’s boys, and they adjourned to another room and made a noise. Their father lost patience and weat after them, and a characteristic admonition ensued. “Are you making a noise on purpose?** he asked. After some hesitation came an answer in the affirmative. “Y-y-yes." “Does not her singing please you?” “Well, no. Why does she bowl?” declared one of the boys, with vexation. “So yon wish to protest against her singing?*’ asked Lyeff Nikolaorltch in a serious Tone. "Yes.** "Then go out and say so or stand in the middle of the room and tell every •ne present That would be rude, bat upright and bonest But you have get together and are squealing tike grasshoppers to a corner. I will not endure such protests.”