Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — The Comic Side of The News [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The Comic Side of The News

After all, the ideal foot-bail colors are black and blue. The health department of Baltimore wants kissing abolished “on the ground that it is a public menace.” Why public? The country hears less of General Mile, since he come home than when he was abroad. He was more popular when he was Miles away. A St. Louis newspaper contains an advertisement reading as follows: “Wanted: A woman to cook.” Is this a result of the Luetgert trial? Kansas women are setting the fashion of removing the hat upon entering church. It is an old custom to avoid the hat at church services. And now the professor of chemistry at the University of California says he can make gold from silver. If so many persons can do that why don’t some of them do it? In Oneonta, N. Y., the other day a prospective bride called off her wedding at the last moment because she saw a cigar in her lover's rest pocket. Then what becomes of the pleasing assertion that love is blind ? | That Colorado man who has sued for divorce because his wife has cold feet seems to have imagined that marriage is one long, sweet basebtirner. He should at least have waited for the usual January tlmur.