Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1875 — How He Made Himself at Home. [ARTICLE]

How He Made Himself at Home.

“Make yourself at home” is a common form of hospitable welcome, but the invitation may be awkwardly taken advantage of if our friend happens to be odd. The Nashville Banner says: The eccentric “Brother Carr,” whose name has become a household word in many families in this city, once paid an informal visit to a good, religious family, as he was in the habit of doing when he came to Nashville. The lady of the house came In, but after some time excused herself to attend to some household duty, but begged Brother Carr to lhake himself at home. When she returned she found the reverend gentleman on his knees in front of the fireplace, taking up the ashes. Perfectly taken back at this spectacle, she said: “Why, what in the world are yon doing?” He answered: “You told me to make myself at home; and if I were at home and the ashes needed taking out as badly as yours, I would do it myself.” She was not much comforted to find that he had been down in the back yard and had hunted up an old ash-pan with *8 much idea of being at home as she could have possibly desired. A Yankee editor says: “If the party who plays the accordion in this vicinity , at nights will only change his tune occasionally, or sit where we can scald him when the engine has steam on, he will bear of something to his advantage.”