Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1909 — So Near and Yet So Far. [ARTICLE]

So Near and Yet So Far.

“I’ve lived for twenty years in New York apartments,” said a man who would rather pay rent than shovel snow around his own home, “and I’ve encountered some extraordinary wrinkles in that form of existence. But the queerest thing of all happened a few days ago.” “Rent reduced?” asked an alleged humorist. “No. In the apartment over me has lived for four years a family which I came to know pretty well. While not on visiting terms, we met often and agreeably. The head of the house was a fine fellow, for whom I entertained a sincere liking. “Well, this man, a familiar acquaintance, living In the same house with me, died suddenly and had been buried nearly two weeks before I heard of his death, and then I learned of it quite accidentally through a chance remark by the elevator boy. “A neat commentary on New York life, isn’t it? I wonder what they’d think of it down on the old farm?”— New York Globe.