Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1883 — The Satisfaction of Sickness. [ARTICLE]

The Satisfaction of Sickness.

A woman bad a fit of sickness which brought her to death’s door, from which she slowly rallied, and from which it was doubtful if she would ever be herself again. A neighbor went to commiserate her upon what she had suffered. “O, never mind, I'm glad of it,” was the answer. “During all my married life I have been trying to find out how much my husband cared for me. I have tried everything. I have even tried to make him jealous; but nothing availed till this sickness. My dear, it has almost killed him! and his remorse was so dreadful! Ob, of course, he’ll slip back into his old ways again. But I don’t, care. I’m satisfied. I have conquered him once into such abject acknowledgment!”