The age-herald., 1901-01-15
SKETCHES FROM
 EVERYDAY LIFE

'I have often wished that had a rubber neck" said a haberdasher yesterday, mot in the slang sense, for have sufficient curiosity as it is, but actually so that I could wear high collar. You know there is a great deal of elasticity in the skin and l am convinced from the increasing height of the collars I sell that the human neck is elastic and the term rubber neck literally true. After awhile if collars continue to increase in size we will have to invent neck stretchers to use just before putting one on. Collars have already reached such a height that is impossible to button them without the use of a collar buttoner. The fingers are not long enough to do the job, as to button collar you have to have your thumb on the outside and a finger in- side to press against the collar button and with the collars now worn 1t is impossible to reach the collar button on both the in side and the outside at the same time. A collar buttoner can be obtained from any up to date haberdasher They are very much like a glove buttoner and have a small coffin shaped wire loop with a stout handle.
 By the way" he continued, eff you ever happen to be freezing to death, take off your collar, cut new button hole in 1t so as to make it an inch smaller and then try to put it back on. You will be in a profuse precipitation in two minutes.
 
 q was reading in a paper the other day." said newspaper reader, "a dis patch dated at Nashville, Tenn. It said a ship, the Russie, was in great danger from storm and that the men were try ing to throw a line to 1t from the shore, but had not succeeded on account of the violence of the weather. It went on to say that the passengers aboard the ship were all shut up in the cabin, but that the crew were at their posts and the captain and mate were 1ashed to the bridge. All this sounded very tempestuous for the Cumberland River, the captain and mate dashed to the bridge, etc., and I was won derng how long boats on the Cumberland had been furnished with bridges when I happened to pick up the Age-Herald and saw the same dispatch, which was headed Marselies This, while explaining matters. spoiled a very pretty and sensational news paper story.
 'I also noticed" he continued "that one of the banks in the city is advertising for sale among other articles, 54 negro bangs, mustaches and IS wigs. This is property that the bank has had to take for debt and I am curious to know how much a negro bang will bring at public sale; From the large number of negro bangs on hand it is evident that numbers of these were sold and it indicates the rapid change of man. ners in the colored race. Since the days when their hair was tightly wrapped with white strings into little ropes and these all gathered at the top of the head, giving a general Medusa effect. I suppose the modern negro woman feels obliged to pos sess a bang just as the negro man must own a cheap pstol.'
 
 People who sail the seas in Southern climes and summer weather have little idea of what complete change storm at sea makes in the aspect of things" said a man in speaking of one of his sea trips. "I was going to Boston once on a coastwise steamer. It was late in the autumn, but the weather for the first two days at sea was warm and delightful. Every one Who was not seasick crowded on deck and the latter looked Nike the piazza of some sum mer hotel. There were a good many la dies on board and their brilliant sun um- brellas and coored wraps gave quite a festive and holiday air to the scene. When we were day out from Boston we en- countered terrific storm The ladies re- tired to the cabins and staterooms suffer- ing from seasickness, and most of the men, including myself, were similarly affected. In the midst of the storm the steering ap- paratus got out of order and the ship rolled and tossed at the mercy of the waves. Some of the matches were smashed and the cabins flooded with about two feet of water. l was lying on bench in the cabin too sick to move and not caring very much whether we went to the bottom or not. Every roll of the ship splashed me with water. When the news became known that the ships rudder was out of order and that it was practically helpless some of the women began to howl and many of the men looked as if they would like to join in. In all my life l never was in such a wretched situation. We finally made port and wet and sick the ships com pany got ashore. Seasickness like love is a leveler of rank. I saw a southern lady and her colored maid both lying on the same bench utterly oblivious to any dis function of rank or birth. I have no doubt the story is true of ships officer who, seeing a man lying with his head in a womans lap asked her if he could do any thing fer her husband who seemed sick, and the woman, who was also sick, re- piled with utter indifference. He's not my Husband; don't know who he isr"
 Governor Stanley Inaugurated.
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