The North-Carolina standard., 1842-11-09

MI NndLCy, eleYatlng MS DrOWS, ana pressing MS
lips together with look determination, at which
his wife, not knowing whether to take him in jest
or earnest sat STILL waiting patiently to hear some
hing farther about it.
Mr.. CLANCY took letter from his pocket, and
busted himseffor ten fifteen minutes, in draw
ing upon the back of it with his pencil, various
geometrical figures totally incomprehensible to
his wife, and at last he observed as if soliloquz
ing: cs, it can be done, and 1 can do it. There
might be chair invented with machinery attach
ed, which would set it going, or stop it at pleas
ure, and | am pretty sure have hit upon the
plan ~ ..-
"I would not care about having such chair,
Mr.. CLANCY; the common plan is good enough; !;
all want is to have this made to rock more easi-
ly. never saw the chair yet could not stop, with
my own weight and strength, whenever pleased
said Mrs. CLANCY.
''But how delightful it would be to have one
that would rock exactly at the proper degree just
as you might be in the notion l'
Zone way of rocking suits me very well, my
dear; you know am not very mOtion@nte." <
You will change your opinion vastly, Mrs.
CLANCY, when you see what can be done by hui
man ingenuity | will show you something ori-
ginal in the chair line one of these days, prom
ise you"
':Why, my dear, what has put that into your
head ? YOU are no cabinet-maker"
"No but l am going to BE- one of the men that
govern cabinet-makers," said Mr. CLANCY"
"I1ather than YOU should go to that trouble and
expense, 1 would put up with the one l have just
as it is let we'll enough alone is pretty good
maxim to go by,' returned his wife
'Y ou mistaken, my dear; if every body
were to follow it, there would be but little occa-
sion for inventive genius. The march of improve
mcnt is Il glorious thing, and these are the times
for it."
Mrs CLANCY heard nothing farther of the rock
np-chair for two or three weeks and might have
supposed that her husband had ceased to think a.
bout it. had he not indulged in rcveries more fire.
qurntly than formerly, and always finished them
with taking pencil from his pocket and draw
ing or fourishng invisible lines with his finger.
At last he returned one day from his business, at
an unusual hour, and after he had watched the
front parlor windows for while, with some anx-
ietv furniture carriage stopped at the door.
"Fcre'S your rocking-chair, my DEAR" said he,
such a rocking-chair as the city has never pro-
duced before, L assure you"
Mrs CLANCY naturally walked to the window
to see it unloaded 'Why, it is very much like
other rocking=chafs said She only that there IS
some odd. clumsy looking work between the rock
ers, which it would look much better without"
'That work, Mrs. CLANCY is the novelty and
the improvement. That's my invention, and
happy one It is.
By this time the chair was deposited in the
back parlor and Mr. CLANCY, in an ecstacy. got
down upon his knees to explain the operation OF
the machinery. GAS the chair now stands, my
dear" said he tit is no rocking-chair at all
merely common arm-chair-scc, it won't bulge
an inch Now, turn this screw, so; enough to
loosen this perforated block, rs | shall call it.
through whic Athe rocker runs-now, the one on
the other side and by moving them along lit
tie distance it will rock about like your old enc
now, move 1t little farther, and you see it rocks
much more freely, and so on. Both blocks you
observe must be moved exactly to the same dis
tance now, to keep them In their places, you must
turn the screws the other way, until you get them
fixed Isn't 1t the very thing, my
dear2"
"BIess me, Mr. CLANCY If you had just or
dcred in a stick of wood, or broom-sick, and
laid on the oor under the rockers, at the place
required, it would have answered just rs well!'
"a stick of wood, broom-stick lin your par
lor, Mrs. CLANCY! l wonder at you-why, my
dear this chair will be model for the whole
tradel"
eAnd if want to rock myself either more or
less, l must get down on the floor and work with
these screws for ten or fifteen minutes"
s.Why, Mrs. CLANCY, [ astonished at you
but that's always the way with the ig-l mean
the uninitiated they always object to anything
they are not accustomed to- Franklinwas laugh |
ed at for bringing down electricity, and Fulton
for talking about steamboats, u
"Well well, Mr. Chancy," said the lady. see
ing that her husband grew warm, ';we won't talk
any more about the plan, but you certainly have
gone to an unnecessary expense Now, II you
had taken that money and bong ght me new work !
stand, which need very much, you would have
spent it to some advantage"
ga work stand my dear? am much obliged
10 you for the idea; it will be the very thing for
me I'll invent you one p
Il don't want one invented" said Mrs. CLANCY,
thinking that something must have gone wrong
with her husbands brain; and she used the same
arguments as against the chair, but without ef-
feet Mr. CLANCY was bent upon the exercise OF
his mechanical faculties, and returned to his draw
mo and calculating with renewed interest, and the
vorzstand was duly projected In the meantime;
he chair was not overlooked. He seldom entered /
he house without bringing some acquaintance a
ong to do honor to his invention, and on every
occasion the machinery was made to go through
its whole duty, and Of all seats in the house, none
would suit him but that
aRealIy, Mr.. CLANCY, you have worn your
pants quite threadbare, by getting down on your
knees. TO work with your screws, and am afraid
YOU will wear holes in my new carpets BY such
;ncossant rocking said his wife, beginning to