Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1878 — That Boy. [ARTICLE]

That Boy.

Dramatis personna.—A young American tn roundabout and leggings, perched upon the fence devouring a huge piece of minee-pie, and a maiden of five summers, in pantalettes, looking very wishfully at the gonnand on the fence. lownr; America— “ I say, sis, does your mar make mince-piesl If she does I’ll bet they ain’t so good as my mar’s.” Little Miss (timidly)—“l like mince-pie awful well.” Young America— “ Well, now, that’s fluny 1 Just look here (drawing a quarter of a pie out of his jacket pocket), and it’s boss, too! Ain’t my mar good!” (carefully stowing it away in his pocket.) That boy “is father to the man" who must have his cigars and any ofbur masculine luxury his contemptible selfishness craves, while his poor sickly wife must do the work of two women (“girls waste more than they earn," he says), and for the want of a little money to purchase a’few bottles of Dr. Pieree’s Favorite Prescription, the sovereign remedy for female diseasi s and weaknesses, she is literally dyinr by inches—and all because of that masculine selfishness that would not divide the childish luxury with his playmate, and now tacitly refuses his wife the luxury of health. Thb Mason & Hamlin Organ Co. have taken the highest honors stall world’s exhibitions for more than twelve years—viz., at Paris 1867; Vienna, 1873; Santiago, 1875; Philadelphia, 1876, and Paris, 1878; and they are the only American makers who have taken such at any.