Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1901 — Picked Up Around Town. [ARTICLE]

Picked Up Around Town.

There are women in this town who pride themselves upon the fact that they are “patient sufferers.” And what is worst of all, nobody ever asks about their husbands, who live on cold grub half the time. # * • We know a man who gets along heating a big house with one ton of coal in a winter. At least, that is what his neighbors say, but you can’t always depend on what the neighbors say. They are prejudiced sometimes. *»* A man in this town has such faith and confidence in his family physician that he says he is just like a father to him. We wonder if he tells him every time he is naughty, so the doctor can punish him, as he used to tell his father, A man of this city cannot have any dinners on holidays except around at |the homes of his wife’s people. He is so no acconut that he has no home of his own, and all he is allowed to do is to help carry home the borrowed chairs when some of the relatives have a company dinner. One of our acquaintances will not go to the shows and things at the opera house because his wife does not care to go. But there are a good many men who think they are a great deal better than the man we have in mind, who care to go only when their wifes cannot. We know this man never goes and we think a great deal more of him since he told us the reason. * * A Rensselaer girl who is already just a little past the dividing line between giddy youth and simpering old maidenhood has never given up hope, But her case is not altogether hope, less, for she has not yet got to the point where she is willing to go away on the cars and meet a strange man and marry him. She said the other day. “The fellow who marries me will have to come after me,” Another lady who is already a grandmother and knows about such things, replied: “O, my dear, you are expecting entirely too much.” And how the young thing just barely speaks to the grandmother. *•* A worn an went shopping with her husband and she noticed that the first merchant she dealt with had a breath that smelled like a distillery, although he was a good man and would never take a drink that anybody would find out about. The next man also had a whiskey laden breath and also the third till the poor woman scarcely knew what to do, the world seemed to her to have gone wrong. She was an unsuspecting wife and believed all her husband told her. She thought the whole town must be on a drunk. So naturally she turned to her husband for solace, and 10, and behold, his breath was tainted too and like a thunderbolt out of the clear sky it struck her that he was the offender all the time. And it took a “boa” for Christmas to square the deal. A friend of his had given him a little bracer for Christmas.