Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1902 — Our Man About Town. [ARTICLE]

Our Man About Town.

» Discusses 1 Sundry i and 1 Other Matters.

A certain woman had been suffering for weeks with a terrifflo case. -of toothache. She stood it as long as she could and then went to the dentist. As soon as she got there the tooth stopped aohing and she got it filled. We thought those things never occurred except in books. *.* A woman in this town went to an afternoon reception and forgot to greet the hostess when she arrived and also forgot the usual exchange of courtesies when she got ready to leave. As a consequence the hostess did not know whether she came and wondered why she did not receive any regrets. Since that has occurred a good many of the men expect to go to receptions also, and s ip in without being found out by the hostess, so invitations are immaterialA woman in this town had an after noon reception where only ladies are admitted and where none care to st tend, and yet all are mad if not invited. The house was, thoroughly cleaned for the event, but a few days afterwards she found a cob web suspended from the dining room ceiling, and she was so chagrined that she did not sleep for three nights. A woman was out making calls, and made a speech that was very appropriate. It was such a good talk that people remarked upon it, since in making calls nothing but pure idiocy is expected to be indulged in. Afterwards some of the women called on each other to compnrs notes a.id found she had called on. nine and made the same speech at each place. * «

A woman whose children do not turn out well hardly has any sympathy among her ne'ghbors. It is a queer world, but it is the way of the world. We heard of a woman the other day whose children are not doing just as they should. Everybody knows that they are not doing the best in the world. An old acquaintance of the family said, “Well, the devil is getting even with them. The mother used to be always stirring up little neighborhood quarrels when she Was a girl, and now she is getting her pay.” *.» One of the little school boys has to be helped with his coat every time he starts home. He told his teacher the other day that he had no trouble after he got one arm in the sleeve. He said, “When 1 get one arm into the sleeve I hardly eyer have any trouble with the other arm,” and is that not pretty good philosophy? *•* The other day in a barber shop a customer offered one of the barbers a dollar if he did not speak while he was being shaved. The barber won the bet, and yet the customer refused to pay. We hold that the barber earned the dollar. An acquaintance of ours hates a certain man so intensely that he told ns the other day that he would not attend his funeral when he died. V One of our friends has almost caused a scandal by being so attentive to his wife. It is so unusual that people are talking about it. *•* Probably every woman in this town sets aside Sunday afternoqp to attend to all her social correspondence.