At a late prayer meeting in St. Louis, one of the brethren dir. cted atteution to a stranger who was sitting by himself r.ear the door, and ajk.d why he was n.»t invited to pray. "Becvise,''. reprovingly observed tho deacon, " this ain tno place for practical jokes 'i hat mans the president of a gas company." He use Ito cramp h ; s feet up in li tie boots, and limp painfully to her residence every -atiirday evening; but the morning after his marriage hj« went into a stoemakei-'s, drew-a chalk maik rcu d his foot abouf an inch distant from it on both sides and at the heel and toe, and ordered the man to make hitn a pair of boq»9 after that pattern. Oh, there's sweet liberty there's freedom in the marriage state, of wluch eore-ueeled and distorted bachelors have no conception, |
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Evening Star, Issue 4154, 20 June 1876, Page 4
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