The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-02-28
pITHe AND POINT.


Water colors are not used in paint
ing towns red, because water celors are
not fast ,colors. .- e,4n ar 4.
Meyer put a hot iron directly upon
silk. Send the silk to the washerwom-
an. She will do it for you. .,i, %
To scour knives easily, mix small
quantity of baking soda with your brick
dust and then hire somebody to do the
securing 'h'
-''No woman is educated" says S..
w. Burnap, ''who is not equal to the
successful management of family
When you see q man leave his club at 8
p. M, and run all the way home, you
can make up your mind that his wife is
highly educated.
-Housekeepers who have white mar
BILE stoops to Keep clean, can save time
and labor by washing them with mop
which has been dipped in boiling hot
water and soda. A good deal of soda
should be put into the water and al
lowed to, dissolve. The .plan.has the
advantage of being inexpensive, as
medicine for colds, consumption and
pneumonia are now quite cheap. -A1'-
kanSaO TraUeIer. IL
These crazy spelling reformers are
trying to persuade people to spell kiss
with one S. The attempt will be IA
failure. The man who lifts "a finger, so
to speak, to shorten kiss, will bring
upon himself the. hatred of the rising
generation. The tendency is rather to
add more SIS. That is, to make the
kiss yard, a yard and a half or two
yards long, or as long as strong
young man can hold his breath.-Bur-
dette. s-t ~ tr-|ss ..s4
Now that paper shirts have been
introduced, according to the Dry Goods
Bulletin, it will be in order to print a
sensational novel on the back of a set
of shirts. Then when man reads the
first instalment he will go right off and
buy the whole set and sit up with his
shirts at night until he has finished the
story. tN
.-''Madame, =" said husband to his
young wife, in little alteration which
will spring up in the best regulated
families, when man and his wife
have quarreled, and each other 'consid-
ers the other at fault, which of the
two ought to advance toward a recon-
ciliationP'' ''The better natured and
the wiser of the two," said the wife,
putting up her mouth fora kiss, which
was given with an JUNCTION. She was
the conquerer.-M Y Ledger. .s{''
Poor john" said trustful wife,
"has SO much to do at the office that he
is often compelled to work nights. +"
,"Are you sure that he spends the even
ings at his office?n asked another mar
ried lady who was makingan afternoon
call ''my husband said that he thought
he saw him at the French opera the
other night" ''Oh, your husband
must have been mistaken, / am sure, "
responded the trustful wife, John
doesn't understand word of French. y
Detroit Post
"A remnant of lace lay upon what
is known as the marked-down counter
of a large shopping establishment in
this city, and during IL wait of fifteen
minutes the following remarks concern
ing it were made by lady customers,
each one drawing attention to it by the
use of the word ''sweet:" isn't it too
sweet for anythingP" ''What a sweet,
lovely piece of laceH' "What did yoil
call itp 1t is sweet pattern. -
"Wouldn't it look too sweet and lovely
on my lawnpn ooh, mother, do buy
this for me; would be so. sweet on my
blue dress.n "Yes, and guess it's a
sweet price, too. "-Rdrper'S Bazaar.