The Morgantown monitor. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1863-1864, 1863-11-07
MORGANTOWN WEST VIRGINIA. SATURDAY, NOV. 7, 1863.


night, when each one yawned him
self off to bed. Harry, who was al
ways the one to 'lock up, stayed the
latest.
The kitchen looked dreary; no FIRE,
greasy frying pan placed as a helmet
over the coffee pct, bits of bread ~
ing about loose, dirty pots here and
dirty dishes there. The parlor was
id disorder; chairs stood in forlorn
confusion, smoke hung over all. The
dining room, with its piles of dirty
cups, saucers and plates, its unswept
floor, greasy napkins, and smoky at
mosphere, was worst of all, and Har-
ryinwardly admitted that somehow
the house didn't look as usual.
There was fun the next morning
making up beds. The milkmzT aud
baker had vainly knocked fer admit
tance, and finally retired in dis
gust and the bachelors breakfasted
off the stale bread left from the
nights feast, and coffee black and
sweet.
Every man clean up his own room.
The order given, each started to
obey. Joe pulled off all the clothes
from his bed, and, having laid the
bolster and his pillow on, proceeded
to put on first blanket, next a
spread, and finally the two sheets,
finishing off the whole by putting
himself on top to rest from his tolls.
Minnie, after pulling all the clothes
off one side in trying to tuck them
in on the ether, and then correcting
the mistake by tucking them in on
the other side and pulling them off
the first, put his bolster on ever the
pillow, and concluded it would do.
Charley merely smoothed his down.
sagely observing that if he pulled
the things of, he never could put
them on again Harry and George,
who shared the same room, having
followed Charley's plan, pat On an
extra touch by sweeping their own
room and leaving the pile Of dust in
the entry. 'Excelsior!'
Three days experience convinced
them that bachelors cookery was
slow starvation. Steaks and coffee
for breakfast, were followed by coffee
and steaks for dinner, and both for
tea. Charley suggested that they
should have their meals sent from a
restaurant.
AL men cooks, so we stick to the
contract, was his final observation.
The motion was seconded, and car
ried by unanimous vote.
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.
Harry, 1T was Georges Voice
Il haven't got clean shirt !
Nor l.
Nor L.
Nor l.
I've got one
Nor handkerchief, nor collar,
nor pair of stockings, no.
Stop. Two weeks since Susy
went, and not washing day
There was dead silence.
who knows how to wash?'
No answer.
live seen it done, said one
faint voice owned by Charley. you
soap the things and rub them on
board
Can anybody iron3'
They all thought they could man
age that part.
The kitchen was opened for the
frst time for ten days. One cry
burst from five lips. Tables, chairs,
floor, sink and dresser, were one
mass of reaches, collected by the
piles of greasy dishes. They over
ran every place.
Shut the door. Now for it'll yel-
led George, as he dashed at the IN
vaders. Bedlam seemed to have bro
ken loose. In reaching after one of
the critters, Charley upset the table.
Crash went the crockeryl Screams
Of laughter, cries of disgust, blows
thick as hail, comments on the heat,
Jokes, warnings flew about for an
hour, and then the painting party
ceased from their labors, and viewed
sternly the cold corpuses Of, their
foes. A scream from Minnie
sThere's one down my back.
George cried-'Joe, there's one on
your hair.
Don't mention it. Look at that
one on your shirt sleeve.
A general stampede for the bath
room followed.
Let's wash up here.
No sooner said than done. The
seiled clothes were collected from all
the rooms, and the boards and soap
brought up from the kitchen.
Joe and Harry washed, blistering
hands and streaming foreheads testi-
fyiug to their efforts.
Cold water required good deal Of
rubbing, and somehow the things
had yellow tinge after all, as George