Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1890 — A Fresh Carnatioa on the Ocean. [ARTICLE]

A Fresh Carnatioa on the Ocean.

“I can tell you how to cross the Atlantic with a fresh carnation in your buttonhole,” said an experienced traveler the other day. His recipe was to start the voyage with two carnations and a raw potato. The carnations are to be worn on alternate days and oach when sot ornamenting the buttonhole is to be firmly thrust into a hole in the potato. At the end of a week at least one of them will still be fresh enough | to exolte the surprise of fallow passengers.