The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-01-11
ATINE FOR EVERYTHING.

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A TINE FOR EVERYTHING.
Be careful, my son, when you approlc
q man. II isn't so much the manner in
which you do il, as the time you select for
it. Don't worry so much about your man.
ner, hyou are dead certain you have struck
the right time. Don't depend so much up
on your fascinating ways as upon the
man receptive mood. Never ask favor
of man who is on the point of answering
his mail with 8 match. Don't talk your
Dakota land scheme to a hungry man.
Never try to borrow Of man who has inst
missed the last Car ana has to walk home.
Don't try TO sell tickets for the fair and ice
cream festival 20 the man whoSls despond-
ent with some new kind of dyspepsia.
Don't read your peti ion 20 him while he
is being shaved. Don't try to
explain the nature of the securities you
offer oy talking to him through the tran
som OF the bathroom while he is taking
tub. Don't describe your recommends
tions, qualifications and Endorsements for
the place while he Is running for the ferry,
and you are vainly trying to keep near
him. Don't knock at his door after be has
gone 70 bed and tell him not to get up,
you'll Just talk through the keyhole.
Don't approach a man at these times,
and
You didn't suppose anybody ever did
approach a man on matters Of business IN
der such circumstances2'
Oh, foolish boy, you have much to learn
ali these things are done by various classes
OF fools every day Don't you be one OF
them.
he HAD CORRECT HABITS.
'For ten years past" said the new board
eF, my habits have been regular as clock
work. rose on the stroke of SIX; half an
hour later l eat down to breakfast; at sew
en- was at work, dined at twelve, ate sup.
per at six, and WIS in bed at $3.50, ate only
hearty food, snd hadn'ta sick day in all
that time.n
Dear me-" said the deacon, in sympa-
thetic tones, land what were you in forP"
And IN the awful silence that followed
you could hear the hash CRATE its teeth.
he WENT OFF DIRECTLY.
The clock on the manteI toIIed q. m,
and 8 little past, and still the knight
fingered, trying to think of something to
say, although it was painfully evident
that the baroB's daughter vas lust too
sleepy for anything.
81 am afraid" he said at last, "that 1
am like an augur."
Wherefore, Sir Knight" she asked,
yawning with that highbred courtesy ap.
pertaining TO the upper classes.
Because bore you" he said, smiling
proudly at his right good WI.
"Ah, no." she SAID; you remind me o.
an old flnt.lock musket"
Spoken like q soldiers daughter"
quoth he, land why"
Takes you so long to go off," she said,
kindly.
At Ills q. m. the portcullis fell with
clang, the draw-bridge was raised, and the
castle slePt. Away in the star-Iit distances
the good knight tramped YEARLY in the
wake OF the last car, which had sailed two
hours ago, and bitterly reproached himsel
for not thinking to tell the naughty ba
ron's daughter that her joke was too aw.
fully premature, because muskets weren't.
going to be Invented for nearly one hun
dred years.
UNDER THE wINTRY NOON.
"The moon is waning" Elfrida said, sit
ting little closer to Ethelred to keep of
the malaria.
eyes" said old Sir Marmalade. her sire
who crossed the piazza at that moment.
and the swain is incoming. Haw, haw,
haTl"
And he was gone. Ethel-ed shuddered.
and drew Elfrida to his side until she had
to breathe in her mind. Thank Heaven
he said, earnestly, "that the moon is not
waxing. tremble to think what Joke il
might have suggested to him."
WINTER FASHIONS.
Oh, no, dear, there will be no change in
the winter fashions this year. The woman
who steps on that part OF the Sidewalk
where bad boys have made slidIng.pond
Will pc down IN heap and up again with a
rant little shrek before anybody knows
anything about it, while the man will fall
the full length Of the whole block, as usual.
waving both hands in the sir, kicking both
feet, plunging, thro wing hat and umbrella
into space, bowling at every lump, until,
breatbless and exhausted, he caroms on an
ash-bsrTel at the end of the run, and rings
down the curtain by rolling down stairs
into barber shop. No difference atan.
dear; everything same as last year
wATERED HIS TALK.
Don't / get rebate on this sort of
thing?" asked the trout, as il took little
flyer with the hook.
mot any," replied the honest fisherman.
MAKING another cast. i've got corner on
this pool, you know"
"Ah" said the dying fish, 81 think
catch on" And, indeed, he did, once too
GOOD LINE SHOT.
What Is the standing army of the
United Btssesp asked the teacher
1t are tee men," replied the smart bad
hang on to the straps in the street-cars.D
And the principal sat up that night until
the moon went down, trying to decide
whether he should mark that boy zero,
minus, and lick him, or ten, plus, and give
him toy pistol.
70 "GEETLE ANNIE"
Yes, dear, we know the mills OF the gods
grind slowly, bat they can trot right
around barber when we are trying to get
shave and the last car. You could com
prehend this awful truth more easily
Annie, II you were that monster-man.
A CHAPTER ON TRAMPs.
TTamps, after all, are very much Ike
tramps. There is certain bond that ties
rs all together. True. he will not work. and
when we are asked to take of our own flock
and OF our own herd 10 dress for the vav-
airing man that is come unto US, We say