Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1901 — Ready to Instruct. [ARTICLE]

Ready to Instruct.

It’s one of the curious things in life that the persons who know the least are generally the most ready to instruct others. There was a little Old lady in the dining room of a hotel lately, who called the waiter “Sir” when she spoke to him, and who greatly scandalized the smartly dressed persons with her by cutting her lettuce into inch bits and tilting her soup to get the last drop of the liquid It contained. No one noticed her particularly until just after the meal ended, when a remark she made attracted the general attention. It was a very innocent remark, too, for surely we ought all to be allowed to have our preferences, but her voice was so clear that it rang out over the dining room. “Sir,” she said, with dignity, to the waiter, “Sir, please bring me a spoon for my custard pie. I always eat custard pie with a spoon; it’s mince that you eat Tvith a knife,” she added, explanatorily to the woman next her, and then she finished her meal calmly and apparently entirely oblivious of the shocked faces at her own table and the amused ones at those near by.