Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1884 — Something About Mothers-in-Law. [ARTICLE]

Something About Mothers-in-Law.

She meeteth her son-in-law at the door when the new clock tolletli fourteen, and he essayetk to let himself into the liqll by unlocking the front gate with his wAtch key. And for this, ofttimes he fearetk her. She knowetli his ways and his tricks are not new unto her. She is up to all his excuses, and when he sayeth he was detained down at the bank until the next morning ; Or, that the last car had gone, and he had to walk; Or, that he was sitting up with a sick friend; Or, that he was looking for his collar button; Or, that he was drawn on the jury; Or, that he had joined the astronomy class; Or, that his books wouldn’t balance; Then doth she get onto him with both feet, for she sayeth within herself: “All these things hath his father-in-law said unto me, for 10, these many years. Lo, this is also vanity and vexation of spirit” And for this he feareth her yet more and more.——,- r — 7 —— —— Why, what this country needs to keep it from going to the bow-wows is a few mpre mothers-in-law of the good pld* fashioned school to stand between housekeepers and a greedy world. A home without a mother-in-law is a home without its guardian angel. There never was but one home established without a mother-in-law. And that seems to have been a mistake. That mother-in-lawless home walked right into trouble, as the sparks fly upward. It went right out into the orchard and ordered fruit for two, and got all the rest of us into more trouble than all the good mothers-in-law of to-day can ever get us out of. Away with all this outrageous abuse of the mother-in-law. Have you no sense of gratitude, young man? Do y<m love your wife? Oh. most devotedly. Well, then, where would you hafe get your wife had it not been for your mother-in-law ? And another thing, young man. Some day, when you are saying smart things •boot your mother-in-law, sit down and fasten the tackle of yonr brilliant intellect upon the subject, and do not let go of it nntil yon have calmly, honestly, impartially studied the question in All its bearings: "My wife—how about her mother-in-law?” — Burlington Hatckeye, '•

A writer in Our Country Home sensibly urges that drivers of teams should sit upon the left side of the vehicle where the habit is, as in America, to “keep to the right." By so doing the driver will be able to see tbe hubs of approaching vehicles, and thus shave danger of .collision closely with a greater degree of safety than is possible when he sits on the other side, often with another person on the seat between him and the middle of the road. A New York Alderman, being told that he was ambiguous, declared that the charge was false, as he had not drank anything for a ye&r.—Chicago Herald. - , v