Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1911 — THAT OLD BRICK. [ARTICLE]

THAT OLD BRICK.

When I go home at night and find my room is freezing cold, I always think of comforts that I had in days of old. One thing I call to mind just now, I knew in time now dead, is that hot brick that mother put, in flannels, in my bed. Each night she’d go and get the brick just when the clock struck 8. ’Twas heated in the oven, on the stove or in the grate. I’d jump in bed and cover up and put my feet on it and with a certain shiv’ring boy it always made a hit. I haven’t had a heated brick for 30 years, I guess. I’m sorry that I haven’t, too, because I must confess I’ve seen cold cold nights—-yes, lots of them—when one hot brick in bed would sure have been a comfort and a blessing—on the dead. —Ex.