The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-05-29
THE CARPET : G ,al aMPAIGN. rlp,..I5lsI.i

clIe Danbury Man A-eatsts . Helping Han
About the House During House-Clean
ing Tiine "A Moving Rscitai.' iiS'a J"
The annual cereimoafy ot taking az
whipping and d-pdtting DOWN carpets ]
Utmost upon US, =. IL, is one, OF ,lhs al
which flesh is heir 10, aud cannot u
ivoided. You 60 home some pleas
mt spring day, Fat ipeace i@itA' IN
Norla, and fihti che, baby with ~ cleal
lace, aud you get iyonr,' lavorite, pnd
ling for dluper,. Then your. wife tell
you now much younger Yol are look
my, aid say She really hopes She cal
urn chat walking dress She wore las
TALL. and d>savesI Ih o. expenses OF. a new
,,uil. aud, then. she asks You oifryo,
can't Just help her about taking up thu
;arpet..' Ii you are a 1901, aud yoi
generally are by thasi TIME, o you lsel
llepaf'counse you can,rjust as we'll a
lIhot. Then she gets a SAUCER, tor, thl
JACKS, and stands and holds il, an(
then you get the claw and go dow
Jn Sour knees and be gin 10 9help her
You ieel quite economical about til,
drst three tacks, aud take, them ou
carefully and put them in the saucer
Your Wife is good about holding tffs
saucer, and begailes you with an in
| GerestllIg little story abOnt how y0ui
neighborIs little boy is not expected &
| live Till morning. Then you come t
.he lack with crooked head and you
| get the claw uutiel' it, aud The head
| comes oif, and the carpet comes off
md it won't do to leave the tack in
] The floor because it willtear the carr
| pet when it is put down again, you 20
| to work and skin your knnckles, and
| yet a silver ulitsef your tnuniU haiI,
md tell your wife 10 shut up about
that everlasting boy, aud make up
| your mind that it does not make any
Inference about THAT tack, aud SO you
Jegin on the corner where the carpet
doubled two. or three times, and has
oeen nailed down with afsllingle nail,
You don't care continental about
saving Tie nail, because you find thai
II is not a good time tor the practice
If economy, but you feel q little hurt
when both claws break off from the
:law, aud the nail does not bulge a
peg. Then your manhood asserts it.
sci, and you rise in your might and
throw the carpet claw al the dog, and
get hold of the carpet with both hands
md the air is full of dust aud flying
| JACKS, and there is q fringe of carpet
yarn all along the mop boari, and the
Oaby CRIES aud the cat goes anywhere,
my where out oflthe world, aud your
vie says you ought TO be ashamed OF
Yourself TO talk so-but the carpet
COMES up. Then you iiit one side OF
the stove, and your wife tries to gel
the carpet from under il, but can't be-
;ause you are standing on, il. So you
cry u new hold, and just after your
Jack breaks the carpet is clear. You
are not through IA yet. Your wife don't
sell You any more little stories, but
sets your old coat and hangs it, on
YOU. and opens the back door and
,hoves you OUT, and inlimates that
he carpet neiids whipping. When
you hang the torinenting thing across
the clothes lnie the wrong Way and
get it righted, and have il slide off in
to the mud, and hang itlup again, and
yet half pint OF dust and three
lllroke en tacks snapped out of the north
vest corner into your mouth by the
wind, YOU make some observations
which ounegiected tu,mention while
in the house. Then you hunt up d
stick and go for the carpet. fua Gi !
The first blow hides the sun and all
the lair face of nature behind q cloud
ot dust, and, right inthe centre OF that
cloud, with the wind square in yOuf
face, no matter how you stand, you
weld the cudgel until both hands are
olisieIed, and the milk of human
kindness curdles in your bosom.
IBYou can whip the carpet a longer
or shorter period, according to the
size OF your mad; it don't make any
Inference to The carpet, and tits just
Us dusty and furry and disagreeable
liter y on have whipped 1t, for two
nours as it was when you commented.
Then You bundle il up. with,o cor!
ner dragging, and stumbieiiDto the
loust., and have more trouble with
the stove, and tail to find any way OF
using the carpet stretcher while you
stand on the carpet, and fall to find
inv place to stand off from the carpet,
and then you get on your knees
again, while your wife holds the, sau-
ser. and with blind confidence hands
you broken tacks, crooked tacks tacks
With no feathers, tacks with the big
sest ends at the points. Finally the
carpet is down and the baby comes
back, and the cat comes back, and the
log comes back. and yOurw smiles
,weetly, and says that she is glad that
lob is off her mind. As 1t is too late
20 DO anything else. you sit down and
smoke with the inner consciousness
hat you are the meanest man in
America. The next day you hear
your wife tell a friend that she is SO
ired. She took up and put down
chat great heavy carpet yesterday.i5l
5., s..,ts---------- ff-r /
b, AiGERMAN medical magazine of re-
,ent date gives certified accounts OF
-wo sudden changes of the color o OF
iajr from black TO white iAophysi-
,ian of Berlin, q strong, healthy, and
ess than. mitidle-aged man, sent his
wife and one daughter to spend last
summer at a watering place. The day
that he expected a letter informing
1im OF their arrival, there came one
aging that, his daughter had been
Laken sick very suddenly aud was
.llready dead. The shock was, terri
ole, and instantly his hair became
entirely gray.is He had 10 visit some
patients that same iatiernoon, and they
scarcely recognized him.. Their pei
guliar, actions reveal ed the change to
MIN. The other case was of a man
years ioIds living in the
Netherlands. lie was one day pass !
ing the. canal at Rotterdam, when he |
saw "a child struggling ini the water.
lie plunged in and blpught-iI il TO land,
out it was already dead by the time
he had rescued its body. Bending |
over it TO try to restore life, he dis
covered that the dead child was his |
own son.a The blow. So sudden aud |
and coming upon him |
when he himself WAS So much ex-
turned his hair entirely gray, |
and left him, too, scarcely recogniza-
ble.- No explanation is attempted for |
either case. o The stories are true, and 7
the cause is lett for. speculation. This,
however, is known, that the cases of
black hair becoming suddenly white |
are tar hess likely TO occur than those |
of white hair being turned suddenly |
black. That happens every day. The
former seems to indicate q physical |