Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1898 — LAUNDRESS TOOK THE HINT. [ARTICLE]

LAUNDRESS TOOK THE HINT.

Made a Buttonhole Larpe Enough for the Soldier’* Improvised 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. Sundaj’ after Sundaj’ 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 ftiissing. One Sundaj’ he got out of patience when a missing button had made him late for church parade. “Bad luck to the woman!” Jie exclaimed. “Begorra, I’ll give het 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 hisdaffndress had taken the hint. She had made a buttonhole to fit it!