A NEW DRESS-IMPROVER.
There is a lady who has just learned a
lesson that will-last her a lifetime. She *- has»been for years wearing paper bags, such as grocers , use, for bustles. The paper is stiff/ arid'lstidks out splendidly, and makes the dress set well. Last Sunday morniDg, while she was dressing her young son got in the room, and blew the paper bag full of. wind, and tied the string around.tho mouth of it, and left it in a chairi -The good lady took it and tied it on, .and dressed, for church. As the lady' and her husband went down, the minister was reading a [hymn about " Sounding the Loud.Hosanna," and the lady went intotbo pew first, and sat down while her husband ' was putting his hat on the floor. -There was 'a report like distant thunder. You have heard bow those confounded paper bags explode when boys blow them up, and crush them between their hands.
Well, it was worse than that, and every body looked at the innocent husband, who -' was standing ihere, a perfect picture cf amazement. The minister stopped reading the.hymn, and looked.over his spectacles at. the.'new comers as though it would noi surprise him "if that bad man should blow Iho church up. The poor lady blushed, and looked around, as much - as to say, "I didn't know it' was loaded," .and looked the hymn-book through for the hymrfj ;.arid ; as the choir.rose to sing, she offered "one side ..of the ■ book to
. her husband, but he stood afc the other end of the pew, and looked out of the stained-glass window. After the service . they started home together. The busband said he didn't know what it was that
made the noise until they got home, and " after a little skirmishing around, his wife held up a bursted paper bag, and asked the boy if he blew that bag up. ' He said he did, but he did not know there was anything wrong about doing it. The boy and his mother and a walking stick paid
a visit to the tack kitchen, and discordant sounds echoed thereforru. But boy swill - b»boy'«
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4791, 17 May 1884, Page 4
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357A NEW DRESS-IMPROVER. Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4791, 17 May 1884, Page 4
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