Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1879 — Remembered Bat Twisted a Little. [ARTICLE]

Remembered Bat Twisted a Little.

Newport Letter in the Boston Transcript. I know a lady who keeps a boardinghouse —a charming woman, always solicitous of the comfort of her household, but with a peculiarity. She “remembers faces but not names.” Now, it never mattered to me that with every cup of coffee or tea she gave mo I was rechristened. On the contrary I found it very entertaining. But this did distress her daughter. All in vain she labored with her mother, who smilingly went on in her own way in spite of her. But there came a time ana occasion when her daughter jet her heart upon mother’s addressing a gentleman, strauger correctly. All though the day' of the evening on which he was expected, the daughter could be herd to say as she followed her mother from room to room, “Now, remember, his name Mr.Cowdry!” to which the mother would reply, “Yes, dear, I am sure I know it, Cowdry!” The stranger took his seat at the table. That blessed woman, with a smile like an angel’s and a self-posession I have never seen surpassed, lookkl sweetly across the board, ana inquired, “Mr. Dry-cow do you take cream and sugar?”