The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-11-13
Mrs. Etzgoober on Flies.

AN
II wish you would see the captain OF
the Atlantas and tell him that we've
got a big lot Of flies that we'll close out
to him cheap, as the season IS nearly
out" I
.Flies!s echoed the astonished man;
flies! Now what under the sun doyou
suppose they want flies forg !.
"To strike, OF course; don't the pa
per tell Of the number of flies struck?
and if they knock them around that
way every day they are compelled to
seplenish their stock
"Oh, soul of Socrates, did / ever hear
the like" groaned Fitz. "What they
mean by O fly, my deluded wife, il
knocking the ball into the air.
A blank look overspread the lady'a
face as she replied:
@Oh, yes. / understand now-the hy
is on the ball." f:
Fitz eyed her pityingly.
"No, there is no fly on the ball. ,,
"Why do they call it q fly, then?'
Because the ball flies through the
air"
"That's it, is it? I'm glad you told
me. But they do have a coop OF chick
ems to turn loose and run after, don't
they? .I
NO. they don't have any chickens"
@HoW do they manage to catch fouls,
Them
Fitzgoober almost tainted, but man
aged to gurgle forth:
"What a pity some women haven't q
grain of sense"
Il wa just asking for information
timidly answered the wife.
"Dody," spoke Fitz, "a foul is when
the man at the bat"
what bat?"
Baseball bat, of course A foul il
when the ball is struck by the bat
I thought the man struck the ball.
"They do" said the bewildered man
shut he has a bat to strike with; and
when the bill is struck and does not
cross or enter the diamond
DO they play with diamonds, toop'
No, no; the diamond is formed b.
the bases
what are the bases?"
"The points that the men must touch
? before they can score a u
aOh, yes; the players get arrested
~sometimes, don't they?"
: Arrested for what?"
: For stealing the Sc. saw in the
: paper where one man stole all three OF
: them"
> "Oh, lordy," groaned Fitz: "they
mean by that that the player slips up
: on the base"
. what makes them slip up on the
: base? They amt alive, are they@
I.kr.o11or IrI not ~ar1vs h0 fnornIV
9 cast q scornfal look at his better half.
y II also saw" continued the lady,
= "where several Of them took their first
y base on balls. Now. do they have I
. right to have their bases served to then
y IN any style they want top
I Still Fitz was silent; he was paral
yzed.
2 AS he did not reply to her question
Mrs. Fitzgoober sprang up and left TIN
room hurriedly, growing angrily: :"
think things have come to O pretty pas
when q husband won't give his wife IN
:. formation on a subject that she ask
e about. atlanta Constitution.
to Care for the Ear.
-. We do not think that most peopl
T. sufficiently realize the Importance 9
& caring for the ear. In the case Of tn
celebrated Dean Swift, whose life-lon'
ae sufierlng3 were due to q simple col
'e- taken before his twentieth year, ther
~ .ers ringing in his ears, deafness, head
iii gche. nausea, vertigo or giddiness, wit
c. staggering gait. But there are multi
tatlas of case, i'll which the trouble
or confined to simple deafness, slight q
first and hardly noticed, vet steadii
til increasing with years. Ever winte
o. thousands lay foundation fer it. iii
IS part affected is what Is called the md
r. ule car It is sometimes irfiamed y
hy cold air striking continuously on tn
n o4tside, Just behind and below the ca
l. .. penetrating the open cavity. Fasi
II ion. which sends young children f.cI
over-leated rooms into the winds
,rs winter with the ears wholly unprotnc
lib al, is res onsible for many sad eases.
~, When there is a cod III the hea
a. ina al catarrh1 the inflammation oftt
or extends ID the I.uStact ian tules (tl
tubes that toayey &irta Tie III dale e.
he ant thence INTO the ca itsrlt. ON
.nc times the throat aH'i IS the moE'
The G,ilarynz5 :.re Ittt;t:Ec iia mia.
m nation spreads a,Was III the same wa,
10. An Inflammation j often thus extendt
! from the no ,trils to the ear by al il
tie proper blowing Of the no g. One No
in. hal should be q arel at q time, 81
ire other remaining FULLY open
A the results-not noticed for yea
may be increasing discomfort t
tiv ]ife, the ears Of the young should {
/ i rasional!y he examined by 0 compete
IT, piiYs.ean. The teudencie3 to dea.ne
III. NAV 10 checked If taken III time.
H.. In tie alGye cases there is a tltieke