Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1903 — Last Barrier Gone. [ARTICLE]

Last Barrier Gone.

“Henry,” said Mrs. Penhecker, “you have not yet told me what good resolve you have made for the new year.” “Why, my dear,” protested Henry, “you know that I have no small vices or bad habits at all. Don’t you know that you have induced me to stop swearing and smoking and drinking and going out nights, and everything else that I used to think that I wanted to do?” “Yes,love,' answered Mrs. Penhecker, sweetly; “but it sometimes seems to me that you read the advertisements of liquors and cigars with a sinful satisfaction. It would be better for you, spiritually, if you should sternly and firmly resolve to shun them hereafter.” And poor Henry shrank further and further into the nice new housecoat that she had made from her old dolman. —Judge.