Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1890 — Some Peculiar People. [ARTICLE]

Some Peculiar People.

There are some peculiar folks in the world. As soon as some men learn to shave themselves they begin work on other people, toying to make them giveup the barber. With a strip of courtplaster on one cheek and a raw place under his chin, one of these men will tell what a nice thiDg it is for a man to shave himself. He will say that it is good exercise, and that he never cuts himself except by accident, though from the regularity with w"hich hewears court-plaster one would think that he had some design in mutilating himself. Akin to this fiend is the one who takes constitutionals before breakfast. He is an early riser, says hecan’t sleep after 4 a. m., and that thatis the proper time to get up. His constitutional gives him an appetite, hesays, and he proves it by breakfasting on oatmeal, sliced cucumbers, cold. codfish balls and dried apple pie, after which he takes a mild cigar and a glass of beer. He does this three times a week, and is sick the other four. He is nervous and dyspeptic, but attributes this to intellectual activity. At-thirty-five he goes into a museum as a living skeleton, !*at continues his constitutionals to keep up his muscle.