Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — Too Smart. [ARTICLE]

Too Smart.

A young married man of this city discovered a freshly opened box of face powder on his wife’s toilet table. “To this complexion have we come at last,” he said, and flung it out of the open window. It alighted safely on the head of a gentleman who was going to church in his Sunday best, and enveloped him from head to foot like a spring snow storm. “Come down and be murdered,” he yelled up to the man in the window, shaking his fist and describing a war dance. “Come up and I’ll fight you,” shrieked the powder magazine above. The wife appeared as a pacificator; armed with a whisk-broom she descended to the sidewalk, and her husband had the satisfaction of seeing her carefully dust off the strange man, while she made soothing apologies in invisible tones. And the husband has concluded not to interfere with his wife’s toilet relations in the future.— Detroit Free Press. Fear is always a more potent factor than love or reason in impelling men to religious supplication. The good people of Colchester, in England, alarmed by the earthquake, have taken to praying, with great earnestness and energy, to be spared from further visitations of that sort. Our cable dispatch says the religious money contributions have also been largely increased.