Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1878 — Answers to Correspondents. [ARTICLE]

Answers to Correspondents.

I No. .Josephine; you are nHstakei). Your proposed missionary efforts In our behalf wo lour 'would bo fruitless. It Is a popular notion that editors are like corporations—having neither souls nor sensibilities. Theology seems to teach Hint they are not to uutcr the kingdom which is to coiiie.for the Master came only to call sinners; urllher does this mako very much difference (nliico itoerlier nnd Ingerscdl It’avC blown out hell's blitzes. However, if you fool j that it would relieve your "lioweln which reurn "wit.li compassion for one so tnlvutod. im.e* “pent and brave.” you may bring your' knitting up to our ollirsi most any afternoon in the week before four o'clock, unii talk over the subjecti ! providing you bring your brothor uloug, hint refrain from chewing gum. i Gkokhk.—Mr. Worms wo lieliovo never nc- ‘ oused G. Washington with having assembled together witli six to a dozen other gentlemen on tho sidewalks In front of the business lioutiosbf i I’hiladclpliin, while lie was ('resident, and till- : gaging in a game of marbles. This is it manly recre.'iuon of modern invention, nml us vet hpI pears to lie popular only among the aristocracy ; of the smaller towns of America, with whom capital and leisure are abundant, nml where 1 the sidewalks are constructed foi' that express purpose. Ktiucet. —No; a well bred lady will not . ‘‘attempt to force a passage through a crowd of ! iloien or twenty genii amen nusembled on I “the uarrow sidewalks playing marbles.” A I well bred lady will pull off her shoes ami stockings and wade around them. Influenza.—Soak your feet in warm water before going to bed, take a scidlitz or some other mi incathartic and drink a strong infusion of ginger to which may lie added two tahiespnoiuuls of whiskey; next day one or two doses of quinine opother preparation of Peruvian bark, will probably restore you to a uorinul condition of health, happiness and cheerfulness. For future government under the circumstances described, read and ponder ttic following pertinent suggestions from the Remington Time*: “Clandestine meetings and night ram"bles are not conducive to health, happiness or ••gissi morals, when the participants therein “are of the opposite neves. If a young lady “cannot receive her male friend at home, in a “pleasant room, and in tho light of a parlor “lamp, elm had bettor not meet hint on the street “and wander for hours, shivering under ttie “dark nnd cloudy canopy of a March sky.” As if is, April now. and the evenings will soon lie illumiri.lyil with moonlight, these nocturnal rambles will not be so objectionable, provided you throw over »■-ntir -boulders a btrfnrlo robe, wear v.oothm shoes and hotel fust to I lie hand of your fO-yeur-oid brother. FliiiK TlltN.KK'b —Robert Burns was the author of lhe .sentiment “An atheist-ill ugh’s is a “poor exchange for Deity offended.” Ancient Itistoky.—Wcthink your inference i- not warranted hr the text. \Ve have never understood that tieemive, Gen. t3ssar cMdamirrl “1 pass tlie Kuhicou,” he was familiar witli tlie terms of nledern eard-pliiyliig.