Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1882 — The American Mrs. Malaprop. [ARTICLE]

The American Mrs. Malaprop.

Sword and Den. Mrs. Partington sat at the refectory table, her face radiant with satisfaction, her bonnet hanging by its strings from the back of her chair, and her benevolent spectacles contemplating the surroundings. “What will you be helped to?" said a gentle voice in her ettr. “Thank you, dear, for your polite attention," she replied, looking benignly upon the charming attendant; “I will t&Ke, if you ploase, a cup of oblong tea, with milk and Bugar—not too sweetami if you will be sure that it is not made of the eelymesinary water, that the doctor wrote about, I shall be much obliged."

“How are you enjoying the fair?” asked Dr. Spooner, as ne dropped into a vacant chair alongside of her, somewhat to her surprise. “I dare say,” said she, as shescanned the list of delicacies lying before her, “that l shall enjoy it with my tea. When one is decomposed by walking there is nothing like a cup of tea to restore the equal-abraham, and here is enough to saturate the appetite and give strength to the exasperated limbs. This is different, doctor, from the poor soldier’s fare, with only bard tactics and the lung roll to sustain them, to say nothing of the avalanches; and how they could stand It, it is hard to see.” 1 ” “I meant by my inquiry,” said he,' “to learn how you were enjoying the fair—the ‘Bazar’—-designed to secure a home for disabled veterans. “Ab!” she replied with a fervor that

seemed to add to the exhalation front the decoction now set before her; “It is a grand display of patriotism aud donation for those who helped us In our hour df need, when cotton doth wa» sixty cento a yard and sugar thirtythree; and it has my warm corporation.” j She went out with the doctor, and made him interest himself in many schemes for swelling the fund.