Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-04-27
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Vvise-TheA WATERFALL ReVelatiOn--
Am ExPe eriment with Canine Intel
IiEence, and tsg Reault-.The Latest
Styles
Mrs. Chunamy observe to Mrs. O'Lanus
Yesterday, that this has been the dullest
: house hunting season She ever knowed.S I
. LAS the good old soul observed, a. there
isn't a house to let except apar ments, and
them's few nywherps. and they ask such
enormous rents, and il, you have any chill
drenT and what may be your husbands
business, and whether you keep a servant,
as like people who'd take a third floor OF
lolfr rooms; two of them entry bedrooms.
with water on the second floor, and gas
throughout, would keep a gal. Ineyer re-
naembersaeR atifne sinceI came 60 Brook
lyn."
Mrs. ChGmmy speaks from experience.
She issas lady9of ineqiring turnpf mind
and npnev0ien0 intentions. 9W e 5Hf
House hunting is one Of her ANNUAL rect
may say she Is aNeteran sport.
It is not necessity which drives Mrs
Ehunifny forth IN the bleak spring time
with an eye to houses labeled "to let.''
Mrs. Chpmmy has been settled these
fifteen years. Mrs. Chummy had a horror
of fmoving and bought ashouse. assiq arI5
But Mrs. Ghumnay is always looking ont
for something that may suit her better.
She lives in a brick house with all the
modern improvements, so she thinks she
would like to have ga nice little cottage I
where there wasn't so much running up
and down stairs.
! Then, again, Mrs. Chummy is always
looking out for her friends. .rlaalsI
u If she knows anybody who wants q
house or section thereof she is indefati-
gable in her researches until they are set
tied. /. s..g..sf... =. $, ...s.s boes.z s.
= When we used to move regularly every
first of May, the kind old soul used te
travel miles of streets, peryade all classes OF
tenements and real estate agencies, to dis
cover something that would suit us.
Size kept Mrs. O'Lahus travelling from
Columbia street to Bay Ridge, to inspect
every kind of premises-from brown
stone mansion on the Heights to a shanty
: In Gowanus, with water privileges for The
e cultivation of ducks and fever and agne.
eef Mrs. zChummy had a felicitous way o.
Z selecting just what we didn'6 want. g
- Bat she never got dis;eouraged-so Ions
; as she was serving TREND she was happy
uos Such is the tbenevolence of her DISPOSE
z GiOn. fu Aa1sssA b5R sEff5glr ssf e. sa9t liia
n From Mrs. Chummy's report. infer tha
the sport of house hunting is dull, the game
being scarce. .aoseeli .Ee1 z7si -
Not having to move myself [ can regard
this state of affairs with philosOphic Sc
rrenity. Hea s.
= I-contemplated last year. writing you ar
essay on the philosophy of moving.
But when came to move [ found
.couldn't do it. z,s.-,,-Er
If anything win take the philosophy ou
ofsaman, it is moving. y
4 ,Marius may have philosophical amid
the.ruins OF Carthage he didn't owl
[ defy Marins. or any other man, to phi
losophize over the wreck of his household
goods after csirtage.
1t can't be did.
The philosophy of house hunting car
Sonly be comprehended by the female
mind.
Mrs. Chummy might do justice to the
subject if she could express what passes in
her mind. asss8seE .nzs5szs=sesaFz Ts8
But she told ne one day. in confidence
that she wasn't able to write for the papers
she wished she was; there are sOme things
she would like TO say which would make
some people open their eyes. and she otter
wonders, she says, the papers don't pitch
into some things more than they do.
Why don't you? ols as@ '-14-1o
- Next to house hunting the female mind
delig In house cleaning. o7-
- b. Franklin observes that two moves are
as bad as fire. to which l would add thai
two house cleanings are as bad as a move.
am strongly inclined to believe from
observation that Eve was simply impelleC
by desire to move. when she took a bite o
the apple. ssg f-5srs1
She had no house cleaning to do, and nj
furniture to set 10 rights and no clothes Il
make for the chiidren.
Woman wants something to do.
She don't seek a husband for selfsl
e nnYoylyes; nYo{ si1Ez stussasE ssaaesnaE
she knows that man is a. helpless ami
NAL and she wants to take care of him..
ef2siA md bless her. she does take better car
of US than we often do of ourselves. She
, our first, last and best solace.. -, ~.
-sIq What should we do without her? aa
Ell Mrs. O'Lanus is wv making me half
dozen shirts, (which suggested the refiec
ton that without woman what shlfiles
Icreatiffes we should be-. - as
. Woman wants employment. s3 Hs Z
Taking care of us is her natural voca
ton. - .ss.
she wants to look after. the affairs of tn
nation, to vote and run for Congress.
She must have excitement, aud If sh
Hasn't house-cleaning she wants to set tn
2 country to rights. E7fss ed o
ID. It wants setting to- rights, and dom
know but what a convention of sensible oil
ladies might do better than the Thirty
ninth Congress did. ff-4sasu3 81 i.ssisaf baie
.sezI believe in giving our white. sister,
=
We might as well take all our relation
into political partnership, while we ar
about it and make it family affair. ~ v-s
=; Mrs. Santon and agree on this.
Woman, notwithstanding her weakness
for waterfalls, is to be trusted. =; =; -
But l noticed that storekeepers who trus
her generally send their bills in to her hus
band.
ei- Thi ought to be an insult to the sex, an,
when women vote hope they will hav
Spirit enough to resent it and make tia mis-
demeanor punishable with the confiscatiol
of the debt.
Speaking of waterfalls. do you believ
atbe story about the ''gregarines?" Faf
Or is it the invention of scientific enc
my?
Not having microscope in the house.
examined Eliza James waterfall throug
an opera glass, hut was unable to discove
any animate objects. q = 8 gsz-sk 4.-s,r -
I then tried animal instinct, and place
the waterfall before our dog Cicero, whC
As have already Informed you, is a pur
of much canine sagacity. f.,.
He seized upon the waterfall with grea
ferocity, and the way he made the hair fl
was caution to insects. a,..s ~.
Ii there were any gregarlneS aroun
thev must have been astOnished.
Eliza Jane was when she discovered th
wreck. ....s,-...s,- ~. -.s.,-..--
The experiment. cost me seVenCy-nV
vcents, for new waterfall, aud Cicero got
licking for his share in the experiment.
The ladies are not to be scared out
their waterfalls by any such scientific nor
sense.
But they have changed their base, an
wear the waterfall on the top of the
heads now, balancing the hat on the tip I
their nose.
By and by. as the waterfall advance
the ladies will wear their hats under the
chins. 2f<ft
Which is none of our business.
Yours, festively,
-GnRRY OF MIS-