Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1901 — Characteristic. [ARTICLE]

Characteristic.

An Englishman once said to a French friend: “French is such a silly language. For instance, you call bread pain.” “Yes,” replied the Frenchman, “but to us, you know, it is just as strange to call pain bread?’ The Englishman reflected. "I suppose it is,” he said finally, “but then it Is bread, you know.”