Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-07-08

and received the greater part of the contents
upon his unlucky head, from which it ran down
In coplous streams, presenting singular though
hardly agreeable contrast of color, and totally
running his jacket
We washed his hair with turpentine and pun
Ice stoned his face till the skin was nearly rubbed
OH his nose. After which he was subjected to
vigorous course of hot water and soap, but for
all we could do, that blessed child for q week
afterward, emitted an Odor closely resembling
the inside Of painters shop while remains Of
the paint were still left making his counte-
nance look something like zebra, or Royal
Bengal tiger.
We managed to erect q bedstead and | im-
agined We should be enabled to pass a comfort
able night. What blissful ignorance.
had just fallen into n comfortable doze,
when was awoke by my wife digging her elbow
into my side
:, i" What's the matter now Can't you let
fellow sleep?''
Hush there are thieves in the house Lis
ten.''
listened and sure enough there was a mys-
terlous noise, as if somebody was ascending the
kitchen stairs with great rapidity.
jumped out OF bed, put on a pair-no mat
ter-lit lamp, armed myself with my revolver,
and sailed down the stairs, followed by my wife.
We looked all over the house, and found moth
ing but strange cat in the coal cellar. We
went to bed again.
/ thought had not been asleep more than
half an hour, but in reality 1 had been wooing
the drowsy god five or six hours, when was
awoke by the window of the room we were
sleeping in. being raised, and man softly en-
tered the room.
I" Halo! my fine fellow, I've caught you,
have 2" and leveled my revolver at him
- For mercy's sake, don't shoot!'' said the
man.
What are you doing here?"
Matters ha lu
the man engaged in painting the outside of our
new house, and by means of ladder obtained
access to our room, not to rob or garrote u.s. but
merely to get his paint pot, that he had left
there the evening before. He apologized for
disturbing u.s. not knowing that there was any
one In the apartment.
The new house had no gas in it, but the land
lord had put it in, to the detriment of ceilings
In some of the rooms, and floors in others
This, however, was already accomplished the
pipes were laid, the metre set and the floors
and ceilings repaired, the whole being finished
the day before we moved in, so that there were
several large spots of newly spread plastering
on the ceiling of the parlor.
had just completed the task Of driving some
picture nails in the walls of this room from
which to suspend our family portraits, when a
scream of horror from my wife, and a rafting
sound, caused me to turn suddenly, which
movement tipped my step ladder over, letting
u
manner, producing an extensive and painful
abrasion on my left knee
AS soon as l recovered my senses from the
eject OF this unexpected shock, / perceived
that the jarring, caused by driving in the nails,
had shaken down the fresh plastering on my
wife's head, and worse yet, upon our new Brus-
sells carpet, purchased expressly for our new
house.
Notwithstanding that we gathered it up, as
quietly Us possible, our carpet was completely
ruined; tor the beautiful figures, large wreaths
OF red roses, with green leaves intertwined-
became very dingy yellow color, wherever the
lime contained in the plaster had touched
My wife happened to be looking up at the
time, and some small particles of the lime had
fallen into her eyes, resulting in much redness
and little Inflammation, and, / regret to say,
great ill humOr for the rest Of the day.
At last everything was put to rights in our
new house. But 1t wasn't 4 comfortable new
house. The doors wouldn't shut or when shut
wouldn't open The kitchen range wouldn't
burn, or when it felt inclined to burn, wouldn't
bake. There was scarcity of water. There
was a superabundance of cockroacbes. There
was this thing, that thing, and the other thing,
so that in fact, my wife disliked the new house
My wife grew melancholy.
SuppOsing, my dear" | said to her one
evening, - as our old house is not yet let, we
move back again"
She jumped up from her seat, kissed me, and
told me was her good, kind, dear old Tom
my" She always calls he her Tommy
when | please her.
We moved back again to our old home
L had to pay quarters rent for the new
house; was at the expense of twice moving; had
two carpets completely destroyed; lost, don't
know how many things; had my sons clothes
ruined; ditto my wifes temper. and-and-
that's the way saved fifty dollars year.