Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1899 — Letting It Out. [ARTICLE]

Letting It Out.

If inquisitive persons cannot learn to “mind their own business,” they should try at least to control their tongues. The Sydney Journal tells this Illustrative anecdote on the authority of a woman whose servant was given to curiosity: “Did the postman leave any letters, Mary?” the mistress asked, on returning from a visit one afternoon. “Nothing but a post-card, ma’am.” “Who Is It from, Mary?” “And do you think I’d read it, ma’am?” asked the girl, with Injured air. “Perhaps not. But any one who sends me a message on a post-card is either stupid or Impertinent.” “You’ll excuse me, ma’am,” returned the girl, loftily, “but that’s a nice way to be talking about your own mother!”