Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1898 — LAUNDRESS TOOK THE HINT. [ARTICLE]

LAUNDRESS TOOK THE HINT.

Made n Buttonhole Uirgc Enough for the Soldier’* Improvlied Button. The private soldiers' washing at a home station is usually done by the married soldiers’ wives, who are expected to sew on missing buttons and do general repairs. Patrick McGinnis, says the Troy Times, had a good deal of trouble with his laundress. Sunday after Sunday had his shirt come back with the collar button off or else hanging by a thread. He had spoken to her on the subject, and she had promised to see to it, but still the buttons were always missing. One Sunday he got out of patience when a missing button had made him late for church parade. “Bad luck to the woman!” he exclaimed. "Begorra, I’ll give her a hint this time, anyhow!” He then took the lid of a tin blacking box about three inches in diameter, drilled two holes in it With a fork and sewed it on the shirt, which he sent to be washed. When his washing came back he found his laundress had taken the hint. She had made n buttonhole to fit it!