Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — NOT LIKE HIS MOTHER’S. [ARTICLE]

NOT LIKE HIS MOTHER’S.

The Following Is a Warning to Some Young Husbands. Beautiful scenery here, is it not?” asked the young man of a solitary traveler whom he found pacing along the seashore. “Well no,’ replied the stranger, “I can’t agree with you. I think the ocean is too small. It is no such ocean as my mother used to have.” ‘‘Your mother's ocean was superior, then?” “Oh, yes, “vastly superior. What tumbling breakers! What a magnificent sweep of view! What amplitude of distance! What fishing there •was in my mother's ocean!” “But the sky is magnificent here, is it not, sir?” “Too low and too narrow across the top,” replied the stranger. “I hadn’t noticed it,” said the young man. “Yes,” said the stranger, “it is too low and there isn’t air enough in it, either. Besides it doesn’t sit plumb over the earth; it is wider from north to south than it is from west to east. I call it a pretty poor sky. It is no such sky as my mother used to have.” “Pardon me, but did your mother have a special sky and ocean of her own?” Right here an old resident came up and drew the young man aside. “Don't talk with him,” said the old resident, “He is a hopeless lunatic. He is a man who always used to tell his wife about ‘the biseiiits my mother used to make,’ ‘my mother’s pies,’ ‘my mother’s puddings’ and ‘my mother’s doughnuts.’ The habit grew on him so much that he became a confirmed lunatic.”