Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1894 — The Pencil and Paper. [ARTICLE]

The Pencil and Paper.

“I was calling at a house the other lay,” said a man of society, “and as I found the lady I wished to see out, tnd had a message which I desired lo deliver, I ask the maid, after rainly fumbling in my pocket for a pencil, if she could get me one. I ‘xpected, from my experience on similar occasions, a wait of several ninuces while she hunted it up, to ny surprise, however, she promptly presented me with a neat little pad, io which a sharply pointed pencil was attached, and which was evilently kept on the ball table for just such emergencies. It was a simple letail, if you will, but one which stamped that house forever in my nind as being regulated in every department. and presided over by a thoughtful woman.