Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — Went. Out for a Rest. [ARTICLE]

Went. Out for a Rest.

“Did you mail that letter to mother?” asked Mrs. Junius, as she poured the tea. Mr. Junius laid down and fork and slowly drew an envelope from Lis inner pocket. “Well, there,” cried Mrs. Junius, staying the teapot in,the air, “if that isn't just like you, Julius, Junius, carrying around my letter for a week, and mother worrying and worrying herself, perhaps sick, and having to take thoroughwort tea every morning and night, but I guess you wouldn’t laugh if you had to be dosed with such bitter stuff, and me having to steep it out-on top of the stove and the dipper leaking, and you know I’ve asked you Just as kindly as I could to have it mended, but you don’t pay attention to a single word I say, no more than if I was deaf and dumb, and mother wondering if I’m sick or maybe the baby, the little darling that' she thinks so much of, and I know she’ll get Uncle Horace to leave him every cent of his money, but you wouldn’t care if he was dying, I mean the baby of course and not Uncle Horace that you never met though he’s one of the kindest men In the world and always said he liked nothing better than to sit down and have a good quiet chat with me, but for mercy sake, Julius Junius, don’t sit there grinning and making a bad matter worse and not saying, a word, but give me that letter and tell me if you can why you .forgot to mail it.” A/ his wife flogged herself for the way freight, Julius Junius passed over the envelope. “I didn't forget it—mailed it on the same day,” he said. “This one’s from your mother iii answer to it, I reckon.” Saying which* he put on his hat and went out for the kindling. Nor did he come back for an hour. But Mrs. Junius was still at it.—St. Louis Post-Dis-patch.