Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1907 — Open to Convietion. [ARTICLE]

Open to Convietion.

No rock Wjas ever more firmly fixed than were Mrs.\ Manser’s pinion; but she considered herself of an extremely pliable disposition, with a mind open to conviction on all sides. “It’s the strangest thing to me, the way the rest of the family talk as if I were set in my views,” she said one day to her nephew William’s bride, with whom she had been laboring on the 'subject of calling-cards for more than an hour. “It seems to me you’re sort of taking the same tone,” she continued, looking sharply at the young woman, “and I don’t want you to. There isn’t anybody in this world that’s readier to be convinced she’s in the wrong than I am by people who know more than I. All they’ve got before ’em, ever, Is to prove to me that they do know more than I—and I tell you, my dear, there hasn’t one of ’em ever been able to in thi& family!”