People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1894 — Cause for Thankfulness. [ARTICLE]

Cause for Thankfulness.

An exchange relates this incident of life in an apartment house: Boy—Father sent me up to say that he would be very thankful if you wouldn’t lay any more carpets tonight. He can’t sleep. Nev/ Tenant —Go town and tell your father not to let my hammering prevent him from feeling thankful. Tell him to be thankful his carpets are laid and, above all. to be thankful he sent you up instead of coming himself. —Chicago News. “I don’t see what makes people go to football games on Thanksgiving day,” remarked his wife. “It hasn’t anything to do with the spirit of the occasion.” “Oh, yes, it has,” was the reply. “I never went to a football game in my life that I didn’t feel tremendously thankful that I wasn’t one of the players.”—Washington Sta r. —David Livingstone, as a boy, showed all the determination which was afterwards so prominent a feature of his character.