Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1896 — A Joy Forever. [ARTICLE]

A Joy Forever.

1 When Gen. War re was commander-in-cliief of. the Bombay Division, he once gave a luncheon at I’ooua, where about forty officers were Present. The* onjy lady present was Mrs; Warre, who sat at the. other end,of the tftble. Now the general, in the course of conversation, often addressed Ids wife, and whenever he did so called her “Joy.” Among the guests w.a« a cheeky yolmg subaltern!, from "the gunners, by name Maedtmald. This youth suddenly paralyzed tile guests by saying to the general: “I say, who’s ‘Joy,’ gefaeralTl.-.w-——- - awriir'i>‘ause, and the general saidlvery slowly and distinctly: “Joj l ,” M* Macdonald, “Is a pet name I sometimes give my wife!” “Quite right, too, general,” sang out the unabashed subaltern. “A thing of beauty is a Joy.forever. 1 * This remark saved the situation.— London Answers. ’ V ■ 1 . • -