Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1902 — Satisfied Them. [ARTICLE]

Satisfied Them.

A lady who is a district visitor became much interested in a very poor but apparently respectable Irish family named Curran, living on the top floor of a great building in a slum district of her parish. Every tinde she visited the Currans she was annoyed by the staring and the whispering of the other women living in the building. One day she said to Mrs. Curran: “Your neighbors seem very curious to know who and what I am and the nature of my business with you.” “They de,” acquiesced Mrs. Curran. “Do they ask you about it?” “Indade they do, ma’am.” “And do you tell them?” “Faith, thin, an’ 01 do not.” “What do you tell them ?” “01 just tell thlm,” was the calm reply, “that you are me dressmaker, an’ let it go at that.”