Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1906 — Washes Her Change. [ARTICLE]

Washes Her Change.

Mrs. Robinson was chinking some coins around in a basin of water. “What under the canopy of heaven are you doing?” inquired her husband. She looked a little sheepish and murmured, “Washing the fish money.” He looked at her stupidly. “Well, it's this way,” she said defiantly, “I can’t' bear to use the money which the fish man gives me in change. It always smells of the finny tribe, and it’s not imagination either. So I Just take a scrubbing brush and a little sapolio and clean It. And, to tell the truth, I often wash the money I get in change in the trolley cars and in the shops. Some of it is so grimy and greasy that I hate to touch it until it goes under the scrubbing brush.” “Goodness," ejaculated her husband, “such a waste of time! Why, you’re really only scrubbing it up for other people, for It goes right out of your hands again.” “That’s Just what it does not do,” said the woman. “It makes me economical. The money looks so bright and attractive I don’t like to spend it and get dirty coins back. So I don’t fritter away half .the money that I * used to before I did the washing act” A Potato Hlat. When potatoes are to be baked, if they ate thoroughly heated on top of the stove, turning them once, they will bake in half the usual time. Hobaoa’a Choice. Blacken one end of a stick. The vietim, blindfolded, is asked to choose the right or left end, first having been told one end ia black. The end chosen is drawn across the forehead or cheek, and this is repeated three times, when the bandage is removed and a mirror produced. You ne people wanted to learn telegraphy. Railroad and tele* graph companies need operators badly. Total cost, six months’ course at our school, tuition (telegraphy and typewriting), board and room, s9l; this can be reduced. Catalogue free. Dodge’s Institute, Monroe St., Valparaiso, Indiana.