Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1879 — Home Adornment Pays. [ARTICLE]

Home Adornment Pays.

Other things being equal, a country farm house, with an abundance of shade and fruit trees, with shrubbery and vines, and small fruits and bloom of flowers about, wi.l always command a much higher price in the market than one bare of these attractions; so that time and money spent in these improvements make ample pecuniary returns. And if this were not so, a rosy, cheerful home is far more restful and refreshing to the weary worker than a bleak, barren and dreary one. One gets paid as he goes along for his toil and his- struggle, when he sees his trees coming intq fruit, his vines laden with grspes, his currant and raspberry bushes heavy with luscious fruit, and tastes the bounties hrs industry and forethought have secured.—[Ex.

Neil Burgess, the famous impersonator of female characters, who is playing "‘Widow,” in Nasby’s “Widow Eedoott,” was pressed for time to catch a train at Lafayette last week. Having but 10 minutes to make the train, after his performance, and it requiring not less'than 20 to chance his habiliments. Mr. Burgess threw himself into his carriage in his stage female garb, took his seat in the train in the most approved feminine fashion, and so traveled to the end of his route. The passengers regarded the queer bonnet and oldfashioned nr ess with some meriraent, but no one supposed that it was any other but a woman wonderfully and fearfully made. He entered into the spirit, of the thing completely, improving the opportunity to determine whether his personation would do as well in broad day-light, as under gas. It was said to have been a very funny performance.—[Ex.