The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1873-10-09
Natter. on Zinc nenda1.

Matters on Blue Menday.
There il no important difference in
Monday among those families who do
their own washing. The way Of observ-
ing it is very singular. The hrst thing
10 to get the man upan bour carrier than
usual to get down the boiler. We don't
understand why boiler is kept on the
top shelf, where nobody but himself can
reach it. BIT perhaps it is not intended
we should understand it. Having got
down the boiler and taken bis place at
the table and pronounced grace with a
benevolent aspect, he IS called into the
kitchen again to lift the boiler mp on the
stove. He finds it full Of water, and
weighing about three-quartsrs Of ton,
he sinks his toeth into his lips, lays his
eyes out on his cheeks, initiates those
checks, and accomplishes the task. at
ter breakfast, which is eaten hastily,
and from a table that is garnished with
bar of soap package of starch, and a
h!uing bag. he is sent down cellar after
tho tub, wash board, bench, etc. de
puta both tubs together and tho wash
board inside, with view to avoid COM
ing down stairs again, although he has
been years trying practical demonstra.
tions that those things can't be carried
At one time. But he grasps the inside
of the tubs with onearm and takes the
bench under the other, and starts for the
stairs. No one who has not tried 1t can
begin to understand the amount OF cir
cumspection required to engineer a
wasLiub and washbench up the same
stairway at the same time. He knows
it; bat there is an undying hope in is
breast that there is way to accomplish
it and he starts. Before reaching the
stairs the tubs slide around and the board
slips out. He thinks at first that he
will put his heel on it and split it in two,
but changes his mind, sets down the
things and replaces the board. Then
he starts again, and when he has got As
far mp the stairway as he can go withou,
proceeding sideways, he turns the tubs
ID the trent, but IS his hold To them has
been graduslly yielding all the while, he
finds they are so low they strike the
stair, and in an effort to raise them
the bench gives and to save that ne losoe
in part his hold OH the tubs, and before
lie can recover it the board slips on,
and goes back into the cellar, two steps
at q jump. He turns round and looks
over the tubs down at the board, whici
lie eyes with an intensity there appears
10 be no call for, and again attempts the
ascent. He gets the bench started ahead
hut the end catches in tho top step, and
having exhausted his endurance and
reach in getting it that far, finds himself
completely powerless to lift it over the
obstruction. 1t has grown very warm
in the last minute, and his breath GENES
very short and quick, and it seems as if
lis arms which holds the tubs will very
sosn drop off at his shoulder and leave
him cripple for life, and at this jnnct
r-e the outside Tub loossns and COM
msnces to slip and threaten trouble. He
presses his arm all the tighter TO the in
eide tub, and tries TO get his knee up
against the outside one, but is too late.
here is q siuIrm or two, and then 1t l.
over. The outside tub is down with the
having accomplished the
trip with noise ,ha, is almost deafening.
Tho other tub follows at once, being
urged thereto By kick that Yearly
throws him from his feet, and then get
ling the door open he shoves the bench
into the kitchen and clear across the
! Dom, to the apparent jeopardy of the
less of the entire family. After that he
gets up the other things making no re-
mark to anybody, but looking around
on errey ono in . manner calculated to
thA nf liaorAd,f
Then he puts on his coat, rubs his arms,
and starts down the street, and gets on
the walk, when he was called back to
bring up some wood. II that wood was
in the shape of burial casket it is ex
tremely doubtful if he could have looked
more solemn in taking it up stairs. AT
noon he comes homo TO dinner and finds
only one leaf up, the table cloth in the
wash, and that his wife has cut tho bread
after cutting the soap. What comments
he contemplates on this state of affairs
are never made. He is sent out in tho
yard armed with the clothes line, and an
to not drop i. in the dirt, and
in the seclusion OF the space devoted to
the back yard, he vents the spleen tina:
has been gathering within him, and
whips the clothes line around with sar-
Conlc joy. After that he comes in with
his teeth together, and lifts two tubs
full OF water to the floor, and then goes
into the bedroom and puts on a pair OF
dry pants and gri'aly ssts his dinner.
1t may occur to him that there is no diff.
ference il this Monday from any that
has proceeded it but he can't help but
wonder what kind of misery that comes
UP every time 50 fresh and formidable
10 to appear entirely new.-Danbury
Nc,cS.