Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1904 — Works the Other Way. [ARTICLE]

Works the Other Way.

She—Don’t you believe that “a soft answer turneth nwny wrath?” He —Oil. yes. Oftener, however, wratli frightens nwny a soft answer. —Kansas City Journal. ( Somehow we never have much faith in the business ability of n man who has pink cheeka and yellow hair.

ITaressonable. A gentleman entertained some visitors at his home one evening. When the guests were ready to depart a storm had arisen outside. The host furnished one of the guests with an umbrella, the recipient of which was profuse In his assertions that lie would return It on the in; row. The morrow came, but the umbrella did not. Borne time elapsed, when one rainy day as the owner of the umbrella was walking on the street lie espied ids umbrella in the hands of the person who had borrowed It. He immediately walked over to him and said: “Glad to see you. I need my umbrella.” His chagrin may be imagined when the offender insisted; “You can't have it to-day; it’s raining!”