Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-05-18
= House for Sale, and Something More.

The following characteristic adyer ertlSement
! from Solomon Sturges Esq, formerly of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, and well known in this city. ap-
peared in the Chicago Press and Tribune q
| 2Ist ulti
| want my dear sirs, to sell one or both OF
my houses at the corner of Pine and Huron
streets, North Side. 1 want money, but will
sell them without money. and almost without
price. When | commenced those houses, my
wife was living, and l fondly hoped should
die before she did. She has " gone before, -
and the homes have no charm for NE. They
are too high, too costly, too snowy, and have
too many modean conyenieneez to suit me
Some one, on looking over the corner house
before it was finished, said it had seven hun
dred miles Of lead pipe in it. 1 believe he lied!
L don't believe there is half as much. Did you
ever lie? No? don't believe you. We will
all lie.
As soon as nay wife returned to Ohio from
our trip TO Lake Superior in the summer of
1858, she wrote to me, !" Husband, if | am to
move to Chicago, the sooner you build me a
house, the better shall be suited. We have
had as good house as any of our neighbors
here and I want as good one there
The next morning I had the saddle on
/, Kate" rather early, rode out to Dunlap &
Cos Brick yard; "A miles,l walked up Dunlap,
gave him good scoldlng for sleeping so late,
barganed with him for 100000 brick, and was
back to my sons house, on Ohio street, before
the family had their mornings devotions and
long before breakfast was ready. Ny contracts
for stone were made the same day, and the
houses commenced fhe next one. 7 on, my
pleasure than in this world than that enjoyed
by husband in doing just as his wife wishes
him, even if he does, sometimes do very fool
ish things, and even build such fine houses,
that it may almost bankrupt him in paying for
them. Were you ever guilty Of such folly p
l trust not if you have, then You will know
how to exercise christiancharity in Judging me-
But, the houses are very periect-that is so,
Filled with all sort Of Modern improvements
Let me see how many kind Of Baths Tho
e" Shower" l don't know the use of it, for l
always run to get out of a shower, if see one
coming. Tie Douche-1 presume Mr.. Vince
lock (the best Architect in Chicago as l am
told can tell what it is for. I believe they are
used in Penitentiares for incorrigibe sinners,
that nothing else viii tame, and, I suppose is
put in my house to tame naughty children of
perhaps, to "tame Shrew." The Hot Bath.
The Cold Bath. These are old fashioned III
sttutions, we all know about. The Bidet
Bath" This will require a dissertation in
French to explain. 1t has lately been import
ed into Boston, as my lying I" Plumber" told
me. 1t must have cost at least the price Of q
good farm, and CT course it must be exceeding
II useful Mr.. Wheelock said could appeal
TO DR.. Braiuard, who had spent five years in
Paris, and he would know all about it. 1
knew If it cost q good deal Of money, my ladies
would want it, so | went it blind. Some one
has told me that it would save its cost every
year iii Doctors Bills. That if you used it,
you would never need medicine or Doctors
As | would make any sacrifice to keep clear of
| Doctors, / let the farms go without complaint
The g minor baths | cannot take time to dcs-
cribe. l believe one of the Bath Rooms cost
me about Three Thousand Dollars, (including
the stealings) What is three thousand dol
lars? Why, nothing but filthy lucre, not to be
thought of for a moment, when the health Of
one of Gods Angels is to be preserved or re-
stored by the " Bidet Bath" Then the
Plunge" o. Cesar. When Godhas given us
such Plunge" as Lake Michigan that we
| must have Miniature Lake in our celler. l
guess that did not cost over a hundred dollars.
and l have filed it up in disgust. If any one,
Messrs. Editors, wants place with all modern
improvements, and more too, | want to sell
| them one, for | am exceedingly anxious to
get out of the city, on to Barry Point Ridge, -
and into Double Log Cabn-just such as
Old Tippecanoe lived in at "North Bend"
want to live for a few years in simple Quaker
simplicity, in good Log Cabin" the best
house man ever lived in. Do help me out of
the scrape. Your friend,
! Go1 O,rD>- CrJ-prrs