Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1906 — Told by Their Buttons. [ARTICLE]

Told by Their Buttons.

The minister’s wife was busily engaged one afternoon mending the family clothes w hen a neighbor called for a friendly chat After a lew moments of new s and gossip the caller remarked, as she began to inspect a basket of miscellaneous “You seem to be unusually well supplied with buttons of all kinds. Why, there is one like my husband had on his last winter’s suit.” “Indeed,” said the minister’s wife, with a slight smile. “All these buttons were found in the contribution box, and I thought I might as w’ell have some use out of them. Well, must you go? Well, good-by. Come again soon,