The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-06-04
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AN men cooks. g We Sick to the contract
was his final observation.
The motion was seconded and carried by a
unanimous VOTE eg aseE sa-=sl =
By this time every dish. plate, napkin, pot
and pan in the house was dirty, and joyfully
concluding that they wouldn't want them any
more, the gentlemen piled them up IN the
kitchen sink, on the floor and tables, and left
them. --i gt.-e u-'t
'IIsrry'-it was Georges rOice-T have
not got clean shirt p. -. Il ,.-..
Nor L ...-rs-
Nor L. r.ett -t 4.
Nor T. tf rf..- a. &
'l'ye got one
Nor handkerchief nor collar. nor pair
Of stockings, nor s-t d.
Stop Two weeks since Susy won't, and no
washing day. saf 81
There was dead silence.
Who knows how TO wash? @
live seen it done,' said one faint voice,
owned by Charley. 'fou soap the things and
rub 'em on board
Gao anybody ironP
They all thonght they could manage that
part. The kitchen was opened for the first
time in ten days. One cry burst from five
lips. Tables, chairs, floor, dresser, sink, were
one mass Of reaches, collected by the piles oil
greaiy dishes. They oyerran everyplace.
Shut the door. Now for it, cried George,
and dashed at the invaders. Bedlam seemed
to have broken loose. In reaching after one
Of the critters Charley upset the table
Crush went the crotkery. Screams Of laugh
ter, cries OF disgust, blows thick as hail, com
ments Of the heat, jokes, warnings flew about
for an hour, and then the painting party ceas.
ed from their labors, and viewed slerny the
cold corpses of their foes. A scream from
Minnie
There's one down my backn
George cried-Joe there's one on your
hairH
Don't mention it. Look at the fellow on
your shirt sleeveH .. .-saE
A general stampede for the bath room fol-
lowed.
Let's wash up here.'s ~ II fr
No sooner said than done. The soiled
clothes were brought up from the kitchen.
Joe and Harry washed, blstered hands and
streaming ioreheads testifying to their efforts.
Cold water required great deal OF rubbing
and somehow the things had yellow tinge
after all, as George remarked as he wrung
them out. Minnie otjecting to going into
the yard, hung them over the dinning room
and the banisters in the entry as fast as
George and Charley wruug them out. Din
ner time came and found them still at work.
Dinner eaten, the dishes carried off by the
waiter from the restaurant, they changed
places and the washers wrung and hung up,
while the others washed.
Six O'Clock saw the last shirt hanging in
dampness over the parlor chandelier; the
Ihandkerchiefs waved from the mantlepiece
and the stockings dangled from the bars o.
the Canterbury. -@E IF
! They always iron the next day, SO they
can dry in the night said Harry.
! After another slaughter OF reaches in the
morning the fire was lighted, the irons put
on, and the clothes collected rough, dry, iol
the final touches. Every man had visions O
smooth, clean linen to repay him for his un.
acustomed efforts. Such is hope! II
Charley took the first step. Planting hit
iron on the front OF a shirt, smell greeted
his nostrils. and he lifted it again to behold .
large brown mark, the precise shape of thg
fat iron, burned on the bosom Of his go to-
meeting shirt. Minnie's iron, being almos
cold, was travelling brskly up and down hi
shirt, producing no visible effect.
II was humilating, but true, that Joe tool
an order to a gentlemen's furnishing stor
that morning for supply OF linen, and tn
I'washed clothes were consigned to the 'po
closet to await Susy's return. ..a
Susy 8 return! How can i describe i'll
Every man on that day found he had an i'm
perative engagement abroad, and the littl
maiden found an empty house. She wen
first in the parlor. Dust lay in piles. On
curtain was torn from the cornice, sna iayil
limp folds against the window. Cigars Ia,
about loose, some whole, some half smoked
some reduced to mere stump; spittons wer,
in every corner; the chairs were promis
cuously deranged; on the center table thre
bottles, two demiohns, pack Of cards, ant
about two dozen tumblers replaced her pret t.
books. The piano bore two pair OF boots
deposited there when the owners were to
e tired to go up stairs, and forgotten afterwards
, the Canterbury had dish Of chicken sa'a
reposing peacefully upon it; one ottomon sup
!, ported hat and cane, another coat; ever
Q chair carried some relic OF the departe
j guests, here handkerchief there cigar case
J, on one pocket comb, on another tooth
. pick. Susy was dismayed; but like brav
little woman, determined to face all the mus
/ at once The kitchen came next. AS "
It have described it on the eventful ironing da,
so it remained, reaches inclusive, meanderin
everywhere. The library was next in orde
d only more SO; dinner room ditto; bed room
too much.
Susy looked at the washboards in the bat
ROOM the market baskets in the library til
k parlor chairs in the kitchen, Ct was the neal
e est Joe said, when they brought them out
l. the frying pan in the bed room, (Charle
1t broke his basin) the bread pan in the spar
n room, (or dirty water, Joe said) the dis
cloths in the bed room, towels sll dirty. ST
% contemplated the floors, unswept for montl
marked the dust, the accumulation of sim
lar time, and then went to her own room, til
only orderly, because untouched place, in th
g house. little note lay on the table:
e I'VE own beat! 1t takes woman w
q, beg pardon! Well do so no more! Clear I
d and invite us to dinner.
FIVE REPENTANT DAcHELcRs'
Got His Eyes Opened.
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