Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1874 — A Sad Affair. [ARTICLE]

A Sad Affair.

The other night a man who lives out on Columbia street was kept down town by business until a very late hour, and his wife, knowing how cold he would be when he got home, put an iron on the stove and when she heard him open the gate she jumped up and, hurriedly wrapping the iron in a piece of flannel, chucked it in bed for him to warm his great ugly feet by. The man was cold and taciturn and cross. He crawled into bed with a growl, and shuddered with cold as he stretched himself out. Then he gave a yell that nearly lifted the roof off the house, and jammed his head through the head-board and screamed fire and waltzed out on the floor and around the room in the dark, straddling rocking-chairs and breaking his shins on bureau-corners and knocking down brackets with his shoulders and unsetting one orfwo things, and filling* the darkness with wierd, fantastic profanity. When his wife lighted the lamp, they discovered a beautiful photograph of a sad-iron on the bottom of that man’s foot, and it was found that the flannel had somehow got ofl the foot-warmer. The man says that hereafter if he must sleep with a hardware store he wants it put in cold. — Burlington Hawk-Eye.