Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-05-09
There's one down my back p

Don't mention it. Look at the fel
low on your shirt sleeve.
A general stampede for the bath roou
followed,
Let's wash up here
No sooner said than done. The soleC
clothes were collected from all the rooms
and the boards and soap brought up from
the kitchen.
Joe and Harry washed, blistering
hands aud streaming toreheads testifyins
to their efforts. Cold water required g
great deal of rubbing, and somehow the
things had yellow tinge after all, as
George remarked, as he wrung them out.
Minnie objecting to going into the yard,
hung them over the chairs n the dining
room and the banisters in the entry as
fast as George and Charley wruug them
out. Dinner time came and found them
still at work. Dinner eaten, and 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 damp limpness over the parlor chan
delier; the handkerchieis waved from
the mantlepiece, and the stockings dan
g)ed from the bars Of the Canterbury.
They always iron the rext day, so
they can dry in The night said Henry.
After another slaughter of reaches in
the morning, the fire was lighted, the
irons put on, and the clothes collected,
rough dry for the final tooches.
Every mau had visions of smooth,
clean linen to repay him for his uuaccus-
toned efforts. Such is hope'
Charley tool; the first step. Planting
his iron on the front Of shirt, smell
greeted his nostrils, and he lifted it again
to behold a large brown mark, the pre-
else shape of the hat-iron, burned on the
bosom Of his 'go-lo-meeting shirt. Min
MES iron being almost cold, was travelling
briskly up and down his shirt, but pro-
ducing no visible effect.
1t was lumiliating, but true, that Joe
took an order to q genteman's furnishing
store that morning for supply of linen,
and the washed clothes were consigned
to a pot closet to await Susy's return.
Susy's return! How can l describe
it Every man on that day found he
had an imperative engagement abroad,
and the little maiden found an empty
house She went first 20 the parlor
Dust lay in piles. One curtain was torn
from the cornice, and lay in limp folds
against the window, Cigars lay about
loose, some whole, some half smoked, /
some reduced to a mere stump spitoons
were in every corner, the chairs were
promiscuously deranged;' on the centre
able, three bottles, two demjohns, a
pack of cards, and about two dozen tum-
Dlers replaced her pretty book The
piano bore two pairs Of boots, deposited
here when the owners were too tired to
20 up stairs, and forgotten afterwards;
he Canterbury had a dish Of chicken
alad reposng peacefully upon it; one
ottoman supported hat and cane, anoth-
'r coat; every chair carried some relic
If the departed guests, here a handkcr-
hief, :here a cigar case, on one a pocket
omb, on another tooth Pick. Susy
vas dismayed but ike brave little
woman determined TO face all the muss'
t once. The kitchen came next. As
We have described it on the eventful IRON
ng day, so It remained, reaches inclusive
neandering everywhere. The library
vas next in order, and it was the counter
art of the parlor, only more so dining
ooms ditto bed rooms to match.
Susy looked at the washboards in the
ath room, the market basket in the IL
rary, the parlor chairs in the kitchen
1t was nearest Joe said when he
rought them ouD; the frying pan in the .
est bedroom( Charley broke his basin) /
be bread pan in the spare room Qor dirty +
,ater, Joe said) the dish cloths in the
edrooms (towels all dirty. She con-
smplated the floors, unswept for q month; /
larked the dust, the accumulation Of a
milar time and then went to her own 0
pom, the only orderly because undis-
lrbed place in the house. A little note
~ on her table
I'VE own beat Ii takes a woman
We beg pardon Wen never do so no I
lore Clear up and invite US to dinner.
FIVE REPENTANT BACHELORS"
= Godey's Lady's Book. ?