Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1902 — Emulating Jonah. [ARTICLE]

Emulating Jonah.

Mother is of the “fair, fat and forty” type; her guest, too, is somewhat massive. Both have ideas, however, and aspire to forget the material in the spiritual. Ned hasn’t many ideas, but he has one. That is to get all the fun he can out of life. Mother is often his victim —a willing victom, as he is her idol. This day, at the little informal luncheon, talk turned to the miracle question and the New Thought in general. The hostess Interrupted her own weighty argument. Holding up a tiny fish on a fork, she said, persuasively, to her friend. “Won’t you join me in a sardine?” This situation was too much for Ned. Looking from large woman to large woman, and then to little fish, he exploded: “Going to do the Jonah act, mother? You’d better go it alone!” — New York Times.