Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1875 — Why She Stopped Her Paper. [ARTICLE]

Why She Stopped Her Paper.

She came bouncing through the sanc-tum-door like a cannon-ball, and without pausing to say “ How d’ye do?” she brought her umbrella down on the table with a mighty crash, and shouted: “ I want to stop my paper!” “All right, madam.” “ Stop it right otf, too,” she persisted, whacking the table again; ** for I waited long enough for you to do the square thing.” She quieted down for a moment, as we ran our fingers down the list of names, and when we reached hers and scratched it out she said: “There; now mebbe you’ll do as you ought to after this, and not slight a woman jest ’cause she’* poor. If some rich folks happen to have a little red-headed, bandylegged, squinf-eyed, wheezy squallerborn to mem you pun it to the skies and make it out an angel; but when poor people have a baby you don’t say a word about it, even if»it is the squarest-toed, blackesthaired, biggest-headed, noblest little kid that ever kept a woman awake at nights. That’s what’s the matter, and that’s why I stopped my paper.” Ana she dashed out as rapidly as she came.— Brooklyn Argus. The Common Council of London were fourteen years deciding on having a certain square paved, and when their minds wefe made up the square had been covered with houses for over five years. The New York papers tell about a “ drawback on sugar.” That’s nothing. There has been a fearful pull-back on ’lasses all summer.— Chicago Inter-Ocean.