Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1883 — The Man of the House. [ARTICLE]

The Man of the House.

Vagabonds who undertake to find out whether the “man of the house” is in or not will get little advantage if a “strong-minded” woman happens to live there. One who? tried it at “Mrs. Brown’s” will prooably put up a danger signal there for the benefit of the rest of his fraternity. The tramp ascended the front steps and,after taking the precaution to read the “door plate, rang the bell with a free-and-easy confidence born of previous success. The door was opened by a woman, as the tramp had anticipated. “Is Mr. Brown in ?” he asked. The woman took an inventory of ids face and clothing and replied, “No, Mr. JJrown isn’t in, but Mrs. Brown is. I’ve just sent Brown for a cent's worth of yeast; when he comes back he’ll have to put out the line and hang out the wash; then I’ll send him out with the baby, and after that he’ll have his sweeping and dusting* to do. No, you can’t see Brown to-day, and it wouldn’t make any difference if you could. I attend to business here.” The tramp said he guessed he’d mistaken the house, and Mrs. Brown, as she slammed the doo*, said she reckoned he had.— Youth’s Companion. What we call miracles and wonders of art are.not so to Him who created them: for they were created by the natural movements of His own great soul. Statues, paintings, churches, poems, are but shadows of Himself.—Longfellow. In the new dfcden Theater, Paris, a pint of ale, served by a waitress described as a “dyedand painted Jezebel,” costs |l. V