Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1884 — A Home Thrust. [ARTICLE]

A Home Thrust.

A humorous editor, living in Austin, Tex., received a cruel rebuke from his wife not long since. She had been to the theater, and on her return home gave such a very amusing account of the performance that her literary husband exclaimed: “Why don’t you write that out just as you have told it to me ? It would make first-class copy. You ought to write for the paper.” “No, I thank you One crank in the family is enough,” was the cutting reply.—Texas Siftings. Flowfbs, from the earliest ages, have been associated with the tender sentiments of the heart, and thus have often been the means of telling the tale wsticlf words dare not speak. They, too, have been a source of poetic inspiration, and poesy of all ttges has found images of joy and beauty “In the bright, consummate flower." WortD you have other men speak highly of you, nearer speak highly of yourself —Pasca L ——