Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1886 — The Small Hoy Again. [ARTICLE]

The Small Hoy Again.

A temperance lecturer, who was divorced from his wife, took tea with a family who had a young son of the most frank and impudent type. During a lull in the conversation, this youth, who had heard his parents make comments upon the divorce of the lecturer from his wife, blurted out: “Mr. Comma, where’s your wife?” The question was so loudly put and so abrupt that the man hadn’t the presence of mind to tell the boy he was impudent, but, flushed and cnnghing, he replied: — “I —really —I don’t know." “Divorced, mother says," continued the odious youngster. “Er —well—yes,” coughed the embarrassed Good Templar. “Shoot the divorce!” shouted the son and heir; “what es you don’t agree? Fight it out, the way father and mother does!” ' Doubt is the picket fence straddled by the legs of indecision.