Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1909 — THERE WAS NO COMPULSION. [ARTICLE]

THERE WAS NO COMPULSION.

From Choice the Chickens Laid Steadily. A family who had struggled the best part of a lifetime in a povertystricken portion of the city suddenly came into the possession of er small Income, with the prospect in a few years of something more, says the Boston Post. They moved to a little place in the country, and tried mightily to impress their, neighbors with their importance. They talked constantly of what “people in our position” should and should not do. Some of their town acquaintances came to visit them during the summer, and one of the younger members of the family, a little girl of seven or eight, was showing them about the place. “What nice chickens!” exclaimed one of the guests when they reached the poultry yard. “They lay steadily too, I suppose?” “Yes,” returned the youthful hostess, who really knew nothing at all about it, “that is, they could, of course, but In our position they—they don’t have to.”