Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1879 — “Mrss.” [ARTICLE]

“Mrss.”

A woman who opened a small millinery store in the western part of the city engaged a painter to paint her a sign. When it came home the other day she saw that it read: “Mrss.'.J. Blank,” etc., and she called out: “You have got an extra “S” in Mrs., and you must paint tho sign over again:” —•*• •'—* •• — 7 — 7- — The painter saw the error, bat he didn’ t want the “job of correcting it," and he replied: “Madam, haven’t you had two husbands p” , r* '“Yes, sir.” , “ You were a Mrs. when you lost the first P” ' “I was.” “ And do you think a woman can go bn marrying forever and not lengthen out her title? Mrs. means a married ..woman or a widow. Mrss. means a woman who has been married twice and young enough to marry again, and only yesterday a rich old coon was in ouf-shpp and said. itpe,had %uyjjdea that you, were “ heart-free he’d come up ••Oh, well, yon cap nail upthe sign,” she interrupted, and it is there to-day. Detroit Free Press. ,