SEWING ON BUTTONS.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1707, 23 June 1874, Page 2

SEWING ON BUTTONS.

A facetious contemporary tfius describes the malje processrpf sewitigj,onibuttona :-4--f'lii is bad enough tp see a bachelor sew on a .'button,, butjie is the embodimeni.oF grace alongside of a married man. sity;has compelled;, 'experience>in the case of the former, but the latter has always depended upon some one'else for the ser? vice, and,fortunatelyfor the sake of society, it is rarely 1 that he is obliged to reiort to the neadle himself. Sometimes tW patient wife scalds her right hand, or; wins & needle unjler the nail of the index finger of that hand, and ijt isthen that the man clutches Ethe"Ae.edle ;around the neck, ahd fdrgettirig. to tiea knot. r in the lthread> cbraMie^ces; tb put on the^bttt^m^^t is always in_ the. morning, and fjph five to twenty minutes after he rii'expected to be down ,the street.; "He. lays. the^button exictly on the site of its predecesaor^and pushes the. needle through one eye, and draws the thread after, leaving; about three inches of it stidking* up for lee way] Ho says io hiniself :—&Well,- if woman don't have the easiest time Ijever see.l Th'en^efcomes; badk" the ptherjway and getg" the neeclle tHrougli * the cjioith well enough, and lays himself out to find the eye, but in spjite pf ft great deal of jabbjng; thei« needle Spirit persists 'iii Wckirig agsinst the solid pjjrts of that button, and •finally^whpnjho loses patieflce, hjs fingprs catch "the thread, and tUat three inches he had left to hold the ,button slips through! the eye ma twinkling, and the button rolls leisurely across the floor, iHe picks it up without a single remark, out of rei spect <o his children, and makes another ajfcempt to fasten it.! nTliis -time when

coming back with the needle he keeps both the thread and the button from slipping by covering them with his thumb, and it is out of regard for that part of him that he feels around for the eye in a very careful and judicious manner; but eventually losing his philosophy, as the search becomes more and more hopeless, he falls to jabbing about in a loose and savage manner, and it is just then the needle finds the opening and comes up through the button and part way through his thumb with a celerity that"no'humarrin*e!iuitt can guard against. Then £ he laysdown the things with a few familiar quotations, and pressts the injured hand between his Ckneef^and then holds it under Jus win, an 3i. ? 1Iy"Jambs it into his mouth, and all the while he prances about the floor aAdealls, upon heaven and earth to witness £hat there has never been aazLthin* like ltisinee the world was createJP and howls, and whistles, and moans and and sobs.: After a while he calm* down and puts on his paut?, and fas tew them together with a stick and goes to his business a changed man/ v Hs >c