Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-05-11
Muzlin Delaney's People Clean
House.

Muzlin Delaney's People Clean
House.
OUR respected contributor Mr.. Muzlin
Delaney appears tn he enjoying heap of
trouble just about now, if the complaints
set forth in the following letter from that
gentleman have any foundation in fact:
Mr.. EDITOR: We commenced cleaning
house the other day; that, is l didn't, but
our folks did.
By the way, you are not acquainted with
the sharer of my joys and sorrows, are
you?
She is an estimable woman, and house
cleaning is Her strongest suit
If thereis a period in the whole year to
which she looks forward with joyful anti
cipation, that's it.
She seems to enjoy it even more than
moving, and that's saying great deal
1t freshens her up wonderfully, and
brings her out in force.
And let her alone for making the most
of it, too.
As general thing, she keeps it up for
about a fortnight.
1t isn't that the house requires any clean
ing, you will understand.
It's internal nonsense.
Every man knows perfectly well that
there is no use in it, and that this stirring
things up, and putting them all back In
the wrong places is a wicked invention
But the women will do it-you can't
prevent them.
As in the case of the Ancient Mariner,
"that agony returns" upon them at
regular intervals, and until the sacrifice
has been made, and the ordeal passed,
there is literally "nae luck about the
house"
And melancholy marks me for its own
Because know that however / may
repent what has passed, / can by no posi-
bility avoid what is to come.
Inasmuch as we don't move this year,
we are cleaning house more than usual.
During the early part of last week the
carpets were ordered to be shaken and
beaten regularly every day since.
But don't think they are much dirtier
now than they were when on the floor.
They were hung up on clothes lines
which were stretched across the yard like
the warp in a weaver's loom.
Yesterday, when attempting to split
stick of wood, / cuught the ak over one OF
these lines.
Whereupon 1 witnessed a free exhibi-
ton by call star performers"
At the conclusion of which / delivered
a short address to an appreciative audience
consisting of the mistress of the house
and the servant girl.
And emphatically declined to pick up
the carpets anG pillow cases out of the
wet.
1t is hardly necessary to say that we
live in an atmosphere of dust, and that
everything smells of burnt straw and tastes
like soap-suds.
l had almost forgotten to say that the
servant girl has acquired right of pro-
perty in my fine boots and broad-brimmed
Panama hat.
And that she wears them about the
house and yard while laboring to enhance
the misery of all except her mistress
And contributing her share toward the
general discomfort.
The parlor chairs have a gOuty appear
ance, in consequence of their legs being
swathed in cloths.
And the only available thing can find
upon which to sit down, is piece OF
board covered with bath brick dust, pre-
viously used for securing knives.
The naked floors and stairs present a
cherries appearance, and every football
has desolate sound
But when / reflect that all this serves
to render happy her whom / once made
affidavit to cherish, / am reconciled IN
degree.
= Little piles of dirt are swept into cor
l ners, and mops and pals and tubs are set
; like traps for me to stumble over and iall
I into, and ruin my temper.
2 of course the bedstesds have been taken
down, and have not whereon TO lay my
head, except the floor.
4 AS a consequence, l have taken vlo-
s lent cold; speak through my nose, and
g every bone in my body aches.
d / would venture to remonstrate agains'
4 some things; but il wouldn't do any good
c l might object even to the temporary
} deposit of my choice books in empty
s flour barrels, with molasses jugs and such
/ / might mildly suggest that l would
e prefer some other mode of disposing o.
IS my Sunday coat and trousers than that o.
tying them up in bundles with the spar'
Y bed-clothes.
might even go to the length of moving
, that the furniture of each department
J. should not remain piled up in the center
e thereof, and wholly. unavailable.
r And that should like, if it happened
5, to be all the same to those under whose
Il control l am, to have an occasional square
: meal off a table
e And not be compelled to eat pickup
IS breakfasts, dinners and suppers, standing
-e from a wash board, placed across the sink
" And if it wouldn't be asking too much
5 that the crockery ware of various sorts b
Is removed from my writing desk, and that
u ! Dc dllOMcu luC VI USING N--
q. desk-for a short time occasionally.
b. Bot l know that effort and remon
10 STRANGE would be fruitless.
is courted my destiny-when she was Il
At her teens-and there is no refuge for mt
D. unless go to Illinois.
Or until become a dweller in one o
e. those many mansions where house-clear
10 ing women will never be suffered to ente
II, in, and nigh unto which no servar
< girl in long-legged boots and Panama hs
s. will be permitted to approacL.-Bufdl
S. Commercial Aduertiser.