Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — Comforting. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Comforting.

“Isabelle?” “Yes?” “1 love you very dearly.” “Oh, well, don’t feel so bad about it” “What?” . “You’ll recover. I never saw one of you yet that didn’t convalesce in a week.”

rpHE country! Tbo country, 1 Vast, free, un “alined. Away from the city, Its greed and its grind! Bo charming the landscape, So balmy the air. Except for the sinner Who spent his youth then! One who has known only A citified flat. Has lived all his lifetime In places like that. Is sure and for certain He'd take to the soil As bees take to honey Or lamp wicks to oil. But one who was nurtured And born to the sod. The years of whose boyhood Were close to the clod, * He blesses his fortune And doesn't go back. Though trains may be running That stay on the track. It sticks in his memory And also his craw. Those five o'clock breakfasts The sun never saw. Let innocence venture Its fortune to shape At amateur fanning; * He's made his escape.