The Intended Compliment.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 31, 22 April 1904, Page 2

The Intended Compliment.

In an old-fashioned home of New Orleans there was company at dinner, and the ladies were discussing the woman question. A gentleman present, after hearing all the pros and cons, facetiously remarked that two preachers were discussing the same problem, recently, in his hearing, and they both agreed that it portended evil, and "that women ■were responsible for most of the evil in the world — in fact, that women were worse, than men." One of the ladies indignantly retorted: "Indeed they are not; women are the salt of the earth." "Dat's so, honey," put in old Aunt Susan from the kitchen; "dat's de Bible truf , for shore. Women is de sal r ob de earth. Just think ob Lot's wife." And everybody laughed at the sudden and unexpected application of the old Bible story.— N. O. Picayune.