Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1889 — Sex Makes all the Difference. [ARTICLE]

Sex Makes all the Difference.

The queerest case of exaggeration on record comes from Warren county in New York. An old man* a veteran of the late war, vjua notorious story toller of the huge iort. He became so fond of notoriety of a cheap sort that when his yarns gave out he began to sew buttons on his clothes, without the least consideration of use or utility. His coat and breeches were dotted all over with buttons black, and buttons white, and buttons yellow. The sight of the old fellow was considered very funny, and an anomaly, , It certainly was for the male sex; but for the ladies, bless your soul, it is quite the thing. They sew buttons nll-jjver their clothes, and scatter them in the handfuls, and it is not considered eccentric in the least