The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-01-15
HINTS ABo.JT UMnRELLAs.


HINTS ABOUT UMBRELLAS.
~ Dealer's suggsations THAT Umbrella
Owners May Profit, By.-How to Treas
f3OtrOwcd l'araplines.
mot one umbrella in q hundred, no,
not one in o thousand, remarked q
dealer, is ever worn out through legiti.
mate use for the purpose for which m
umbrella is designed-that is, in keep
ing of the rain. Rain doesn't hurt an
umbrella in the least; on the contrary,
it is my belief, after years Of expert
ence, that rain does it good. But I
don't believe that I ever saw an UNI
hrella that was used up in shielding its
owner Tor somebody else) from summer
showers OF winter storms.
AUmbrellas are, as. a rule, short
lived, and they suffer harm in various
ways. One is from being allowed to
stand folded up. OF course no one ex-
poets a man to carry his umbrella in
the street unless it is folded. but now
many people stop to think that there is
no use OF letting it remain 80 during
the time that it is standing in the
house? The proper way is to unfold it
and shake it out when you enter your
house or your Office and expect not to
carry the umbrella for the next few
hours or a longer period. Otherwise
the silk is much more liable to crack at
the creases, which are always the weak
est point in an umbrella, unless it meets
with an accident that tears the silk or
breaks the stick. For the same reason
L never advise a man, or a woman
either, to draw a cover over IN UNI
brella after it is wrapped. I sell GOV
ers, Of course, and if o purchaser says
nothing to me about it l say nothing to
him. But if my advice is asked, I al
ways say frankly that I consider the
cover a bad thing, unless it is used inn
moderately, as Josh Billings advised in
the matter Of counting. What I mean
is that if q nan simply puts on the
cover when he is going to take his um-
brella out of doors, and takes it off
again as loon as he comes in and sets
it aside, it will not do very much harm.
But the safer practice is to do without
the cover altogether.
""J ~ WhAOu I'LL HCo
worn out is being knocked about in
travelling. You 60 into a street car, for
instance, and place your umbrella
alongside of you. The next passenger
who comes in may brush his muddy
boot against it, and you will be lucky
if he does not make a hole in it. UNI
brellas have hard luck, too, on railway
journeys:
IF you place one carefully in the
rack the constant jarring and motion of
the train will inevitably wear it consid-
erahly even in going a hundred miles.
Under such circumstances there is
something to be said in favor of pro-
tecting it with a cover, though it is
certain that in that case whatever is
gained will be accompanied by q cor
responding, or at least by some, loss.
"Then, again, umbrellas suffer be-
cause people don't know how to haudIe
them when the wind is boisterous. How
often do we see umbrellas turned inside
out simply through lack of care or of
knowledge! This is something that
never ought to happen; at least it
ought never to happen in such gales as
We have in the streets, of New York
City. Few people know'how to hold an
umbrella under such circumstances.
I'm order to guard it properly and
protect it from damage it should be
firmly grasped by both hands. Let
n hand seize it near the handle end
of the stick, about in the place where it
would be held in the mildest June
shower. Then let the other take an
equally firm bold far up the stick, close
to the point where the spring holds
the outstretched ribs.
THUS you can not only protect your
self from the rain as much as possible
but you render o collapse of your UNI
brella almost out of the question. If
woman is out in a blow and tries t.
hold her skirts up with one hand AM
, to control her umbrella with the other
: it ii not the least wonder in the worl,
that she meets with a mishap.
There is more science in taking car
of an umbrella" the dealer said in con
c~lusion, than n person in a hundre'
understands. 1 have no doubt that
! could make an umbrella last twice a
, long as any one of nine-tenths of m,
, customers. I wonld do it merely b,
acting upon the hints I have given ant
J others equally as simple which woult
suggest themselves.
! 1T may not be good for business t.
, talk as I have done, but I have only ex
, pressed my honest thoughts. On,
thing is certain-mighty few umbrella!
come to a natural end, if the natura
end of On umbrella is to be used up ir
keeping the rain off of peoples head
, and shoulders. IN. Y. Tribune.
A Straight Verdict.
:. A coroner's jury returned o verdict t
the effect that a certain prominent mar
, had died of alcoholism.
, "Your verdict is absurd" some one
said to the coroner.
"Why 500"
because he was never known tt
!, drink"
"That's a fact"
, "He never went into a saloon"
, "You are right"
, "Then why do you say he died from
the effects of alcoholism, when we all
know that he was shot?"
!, aThat's all very true" the coroner
!, replied, "but the man who shot hin
i was drunk. Don't talk to me. if 70,
, please. I understand my business
Deceased was killed by whisky
Arkansal1 Tsaveler.
l To Husbands.
: You require q great deal from YOU