Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1886 — It Was a Pity. [ARTICLE]

It Was a Pity.

May ia a little girl whose mother, after the usual way of women, savs a million when she means a hundred, and May has fallen into the same habit. One day the mother was reading to the daughter an article on extravagance in language, and wound up by saving: “There, my child, I hope you 'arill remember that.” The kid reflected a minute and then very seriously said: “Mamma?” “Well,” answered the mother, who had resumed her reading, "what is it, May?” “Ain’t it a great pity that your mamma didn’t read that to you when you were a.little girl like I am?” Her mother went on with her reading.—Merchant Traveler, Theke is something stronger even than honor, and that ia an ' acknowledged passion.