Rensselaer Union, Volume 12, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1879 — The Profession. [ARTICLE]

The Profession.

He was a slender young man, about five feet eight inches in height. He wore an opera hat, lavender kid gloves, patent leather pumps, and a full dress suit. His white necktie looked like cream,' and his diamond studs sparkled like the evening star. As soon £8 he was seated in the parlor, and Mrs. Johnson came in, he said: “ I should be obliged to you for ten cents.” “ You represent an aid society, I presume.” •' No ma'am, I don’t.” ‘‘Ah, let me see—ten cents. Are you not connected with some guild P’ “ I am not; I represent my family.” “ You don't mean to say you desire help for your family?” “ I do.” “ You look like an opera singer.” “ I used to be one.” “By your clothes,” continued Mrs. Jonnson, “I should say you are well oft” “ Yes, but I ain't, all the same. I wear these to beg in. I believe in going around dressed up. These ragged, unrefined beggars are a disgrace to the profession!” He received the ten cents solicited, and wandered out, after bidding Mrs. Johnson good-bye in Italian.—W Y. Star. A small ragged boy entered an oyster house in Salem, Mass., and asked: “ Will you sell me an oyster for a cent? I want it for my siek mother.” “ What is the matter with yourmotherP’ asked the man, as he proceeded to fill a can with oysters, thinking he would help to relieve a case of suffering. “ She’s got a black eye,” was the reply. The benevolence rapidly faded from the mind of the oyster man as he pat one oyster in a paper bag.