Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1884 — The Duties of a Servant. [ARTICLE]

The Duties of a Servant.

"Mamma,” exclaimed a little girl, running into tlie bouse, “me and Willie wanted nurse to sit down and let ns puor sand' in her back, and "SShSE WCrtrldn’t: ■” ■■■■v; 1 :,■ “Certainly not. She did quite right.” “Well, that’s what you told her she was to do when she first came.” “I told her she was to let you and Willie pour sand down her back?” “Not exactly that, mamma; but you told her she was to mind the children.” --Xeic York Sun. i

Most fathers know by this time that a diamond pin, a brown-stone house, or even the highest test of respectability—an English dog-cart—are not guarantees that a man will be a good husband; yet a large majority of marriages are made because of similar superficialities. Freeman’s Journal. When we find that we are not liked, we assert that we are not understood; when probably the dislike we have excited proceeds from our v being too fully comprehended.— Lady Blessington.