Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — The Advantage. [ARTICLE]

The Advantage.

Mr. Blazer took his wife to see an exhibition of statuary, and the good lady was much interested. As they went home, she said to him, sweetly:. “Darling, wouldn’t you like it if I were a statue?” “I hadn’t thought of it, love. ” ~ “It would be so nice if I were'; for then you could have me just the same for all years to come, with no fading, no dimming of the eyes, no wrinkled brow, ho peevish old age, no nothing but pure white marble, the same yesterday, today, and foreveb.” “That would be nice, wouldn’t it? And you couldn’t talk any either, could you, love ?” he said, absently, with a last summer look in his soft blue eyes. —Merchant Traveler.