Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — A LITTLE NONSENSE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A LITTLE NONSENSE.

Discovery of a Bride at the Outset of Housekeeping. A bride who began housekeeping in a New York city apartment a few weeks ago had considerable trouble with roaches. They got into everything. The bride was in distraction. But when her husband got home from his office one night he found the bride beaming with joy“I have fixed it,” she cried, hardly waiting for the man to take off his coat. “I have done just the brightest thing! I have got rid of them, or, at least, some of them.” “Them ? Who ?” demanded the husband. “Why, the roaches, of course,” replied the bride, leading the way to the kitchen. There in the center of a table was a big heap of dead roaches. They were mixed in with a brown powder. “You got some kind of roach poison, I see,” commented the husband. “It works all right, does it ?” “Splendidly. Why, I just put a little heap of it there and it killed all of those right away. But it took tfle a long time to catch them.” “Catch them?” “Of course. You see, you put borne of this powder on a table. Then you catch the bugs and put them into it. It kills most of them right away, but some try to run away and then you have to hold them right in it.” “I see,” said the husband, and he walked away without another word. But, then, he had been married only a very few weeks.—New York Sun. Bpiteful Girl.

He—What a splendid complexion Miss Peachbloom has! Does she get it from her father or her mother? She—From her father. He’s in the cosmetic business, you know. - One of the Bad Kind.“Do you believe in good dreams and bad dreams?” asked the superstitious man. “Well, I don’t know so much about good dreams*, but I have had nightmares,” answered' the prosaic individual. —Chicago Post.