Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1890 — He Didn’t Mean To. [ARTICLE]

He Didn’t Mean To.

Mamma—Now, Johnnie, dear, you’ll keep nice and clean if mamma dresses you up nice in ybur pretty white suit, and puts on your lovely Fauntleroy sacque, won’t you. dear? We’re going to have company for tea, and mamma don’t want them to see her little boy all dirty; you’ll be very careful, now ? Johnnie—Yes’em. Mamma—That’s a good little boy. Here’s a cooky for you, dear. An hour later: Mamma—Why, Johnnie Kiser! What under the shining sun have you been doing ? Just look at your clothes! Look at them ! literally and completely spoiled! What Have you been doing? Say? Johnnie—l wasn’t doing nothing but just throwing dirt on Dicky Bogers, ’cause he throwed some on me; and then we made a little dam in the gutter, and had some fun rolling down that clay bank back-of the house afterward, and—that’s all. I—l didn’t mean to get dirty. Mamma—Oh. no! you never mean to do anything! I declare if you’re not enough to try the patience of a saint! Dear me, dear me!— Drake’s Magazine. A rustless process is used in Pittsburg, by which articles made of iron, tin, etc., are so treated that they can not rust though subjected to constin 1 dampness,