The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-27
by a grown person.


Rub the back of postage stamps on
your hair. when you buy them, and they
will never stick together. / should have
printed this recipe before the hot weather.
but forgot it, because it did not interest
me: | could not go and hunt VI, a friend.
and borrow his hair, every time / bought a
dollars worth of stamps.
The elevated roads of New York will
shortly introduce in their cars o cast-irOn
lap robe. which will be on hinges and may
he opened by the passenger when he gets
in and closed when he is seated. This is
done to ward off the Stumblers who walk
on the passengers feet OF fall into the laps
of total strangers who differ with them
considerably in the matter of sex. i am
glad to hear of this. more in the interest OF
those men who cannot now comfortably
read their paper while seated, because I'M
known ladies. owing to the motion OF the
car, are liable to be thrown against them.
Cheap but durable slippery elm clubs are
to be furnished also to passengers In order
that they may be able to tight their way
out of a car when their destination is
reached.
Burned corn has been found to stop the
spread of hog cholera. The experiment was
made at Peoria. ILL.,, after the burning of a
large dlstihery, together with great guam
titles of corn. j hope, however. that the
his baggage and feet in four moro, wild not
rely too much on this remedy.
The custom of being a little late at dinner
is becoming q little response cafe. 1t has
been by some considered good form to drop
in about time to miss soup and create q
pleasant surprise by sailing to third base
and taking "a seat in a stately way. thereby
emphasizing the set of a new
gown or the loud sough of a
Russia iron silk train. Now it is getting
more and more ricOchet. because ii has
been found that the early moments of the
meal are frequently used in discussing the
shortcomings of those who are absent and
so, though such people still obstinately re-
fuse to do ANYTHING because 1t is polite and
decent, they reluctantly come up to time for
fear they will be the prevailing topic of
conversation.
A new scheme is proposed by a New York
theater, whereby people who buy certain
seats will be requested to remain in them
during the performance. There are people
who can sit two hours without a cocktail,
and they, by sitting together. will not be
annoyed by those polite wife-beaters who
be more irOnic than comic, for there is no
theater as yet that has adopted this plan.
but L am hoping that they will do so some
day.
every true friend joining you when you
drink may be considered as a relic of crude
civilization; but what do you think OF ask
ing strangers to stand up. both men and
women. while you walk over their feet on
your way, ont and over their corPses on
your way back from your drinkf
Considering that we send our Bibles and
toothsome missionaries to every heather
CLINE. why not organize q movement on
the American heather and h~eathenessf
A law that would wed the man
who must go out between the acts
and come back with baited breath or
cloven breath, as the case may be knocking
ladies' hats over their eyes and killing the
feebler people) with the young woman who
wears a high hat with a bale of hay or a
feather bed in it. would do much good
They could buy their babies at Fulton mar
ket or Hester street and be happy. / adj
mire the noble woman SO much. and having
been fortunate about meeting that kind
mostly, so far. / hope that as she will natur-
will not wear q large hat and thus obscure
the view of the men Cd the back seats.
| Bill. NyF-