Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-22
ABOUT CLOTHES.

| The fourth of the John Spicer course
of lectures was given in the usual
| place, Barn Hall, and to the usual audi
ence. Superintendent Dick announced
| that the lecture would be upon Clothes,
upon which Jumper, Whistler, and 9TH
ers OF the boys. and some of the girls,
were seen to brush their clothes little
| as if to brush Off of them anything
| which should not be on. Lecturer John
| Spicer entered Barn Hall promptly on
| time, made his bow, and gave out his
subject:
1t is very good fun to take off your
clothes and go in swimming. APP
| plause. Clothes are the tn ngs that
YOU wear. They have arms. and legs to
them. and ever SO many button holes
and buttons, and have pockets. Peck
cts are the best part of your clothes.
We ha e two kinds of clothes, best ones
and old ones. We hang up the best
ones, and wear the old ones. When
you wear your best clothes every day
you most always get something on
them. ONCE [ htched the picket OF a
picket fence into the leg of some best
clothes and pitched over head first, and
the picket went through, and then had
to take that pair for everyday ones.
Gudgeon grease that you get Off of
| wheels will not come o / very well. do
not mean it will not come off the wheels
very well, but off your clothes. Ink
spots stay on, but yon can get paint off
if you can get anything to take it off
with. Mud brushes of when it gets
dry, and your mother doesn't say any
thing when You get mud on your every
day ones, but she does on your best
ones. Sometimes when you go to
places you have to stop and change
your clothes. and sometimes you fall
into wet mud and have to go home and
take them Off. One time had to 60 to
bed and wait for some clothes to dry
that got wet when | was having 'dar-
ings" on some thin ice of great
puddle down III hollow place
when it had been raining and that pud-
die froze over. Laughter. One time
when | was little fellow, when 1 was
going to party with two little fellows
about as big as was, and we had on
our best clothes, we climbed up q tree
to see if some BIRDS eggs had Matched
out, and dry tWig on a branch tore a
hole ON one side of one of my trouser
legs, and | did not want to 60 back
uoIHC UCSibSC pan " do tb tbC DSoo
pair of trousers I had. A big fellow
he was not very big, but he was bigger
than we little FELLOWSHIP told me to 90
to the party and keep my hand down
over the hole, and did, and somebody
that was at the party asked me if my
arm was lame laughter, and [ said
No, ma am; but when the ice creams
came round forgot and took away my
hand to Ia the saucer in it, and that
some one loo ed at it, and laughed
some, and she said: ''Oh, now 4 see
what the matter was with your arm!'
and laughed a little when she did, and
she told me not to thin any more about
the hole then, but to have q good time
and thin'S about the hole afterwards,
and did. She told me funny story
about a hole that was torn. Twill tell it.
Once there was a very small 10Y named
Gussie, and he tore his clothes most
every dav, and his mother mended them
after he had gone to bed and he did not
see her do it, and he thought the holes
grew up of themselves during the night.
| | aughter.1 And one day when his
little cousin Susie tore her dress her
mother told her not to tear, and cried.
Gussie told her not to cry, for the hole
would grow up again in the night, Just
as holes did in his clothes. And when
Susie went to bed she put her dress over
chair to have the holes grow up, and
first thing in the morning she went in
her night-gown to look, and her mother
found her standing there CRYING, and
when her mother asked her what she
was crying for, she said: Because that
hole did not grow together in the night.
I thought it would grow no in the
uight!" Laughter and applause
know another story: 1t is about
pair of trousers and poor boy. Once
there was very poor boy, and his
clothes. and his clothes were very old
and bad, and the other boys laughed at
this one because he wore that kind of
clothes. Groans from the audience,
and res Of '.Oh! oh. mean! mani
And the boy used to go home from
school and cry because the boys
laughed at him. And his mother said:
g 0 matter if they do laugh at you.
That won't hurt you. You just keep to
your book and learn all you can; that
what you go to school for. 1t won t
hurt you to be laughed at. Keep think
ing OF that The boy went to school
every day, and when he was laughed at
he said TO himself: Laughing won't
hurt me''--just as his mother had told
him-and studied his lessons and
learned a good deal And one day the
teacher said to the other boys: ''Why
do you laugh at that boy for his clothesp
You are no better for having good
clothes. Where did you get your
clothes? You did rot make them YOUR
selves. You did not earn the money
yourselves to buy them with. Some
body bought the cloth. and somebody
made them, and all YOU do is to put