Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1899 — FAMOUS FOR CLEAN SHIRT. [ARTICLE]

FAMOUS FOR CLEAN SHIRT.

Premier Who Went Home and Changed Hi* Soiled Linen. The point of the appended anecdote la, perhaps, suggestive of that trait of th* ill-bred in this country who insist upon interlarding a conversation with the important fact that they “took a bath,” and making it the chief exploit of their day’s doings. This is from the British Australasian: The death of Parramatta, near Sydney, is announced of Rev. T. S. Forsaith, who, starting life as a ship’s apprentice, became premier of New Zeland, and spent his last years as a Congregational minister in New South Wales. He had been premier for two days only, the government 4iei ng defeated on an amendment to the address. His ministry is famous, besides its brevity, for the sobriquet which it obtained of “The Clean Shirt Ministry. ” Mr. Forsaith bad been assisting his employes to unpack some drapery cases recently lauded, whereby his oiothing became very dusty. On receiving the governor’s demand to come and see him respecting the formation of a new ministry, he naturally went home first and changed his dusty garments. Later on, when making his ministerial gtatement, he narrated the simple incident, and this so tickled one of the Southern members as to wring from him the chaffing declaration that he gathered little more from the premier’s “statement” than that the honorable gentleman bad gone home and put on a clean shirt—Pittsburg Dispatch.