Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1902 — Too Much Trouble. [ARTICLE]

Too Much Trouble.

A belated traveler, who was compelled to stay, all night in a backwood cabin, says that s(pn x after the frugal meal a tall, gaunt youth of 18 and an equally sallow and gaunt girl of 17, both barefooted, took their hats from wooden pegs iu the ana prepared to go cut, whereupon the mother, taking her pipe from between hi r yellow teeth, said reprovingly: “Go ’long an’ wash your feet, Levi, you an’ Loo’y both! Hain’t you ’shamed to go off to an evenin* party without washin’ your feet ?” They obeyed, but as Levi took the washpan from a bench by the door, he said, with a grumble: “I’d ’bout as soon stay home from a paity as tb have to fix up for it!”