Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1884 — Why She Thought So. [ARTICLE]
Why She Thought So.
He was a Somerset Club young man and she a saucy damsel from a town in the Old Colony. He had been “doing the English” for her benefit, until her patience was exhausted, and she turned upon him with this remark: “Mr. X., you are English, I suppose T* “Oh! nah,” he replied, with an air of great delight “Now—aw—what made—aw —yer think that ?*' “Oh,” she returned, with a bewitching toss of her pretty head, ‘ the English are so ill-bred, you know.” —Bout oh Goufier Continual fault-finding, dissatisfaction, and irritablsness on the part of heads of households baa done more to drive young men from home evenings to places of ill repute in searoh of pleasant company than any other thing. . That father or mother who takes tip the evening in lecturing the boy, or who is eon-, tinnallv le wailing their lot and never satisfied,with- thiit which the son may •have provided and worked hard to get for them; that father and mother are digging their own grave of sorrow with the spa le 6f di-content and fanlt+finding and are urging the boy to act as pall-bearer and not as mourner.— Peek's Sun.
