The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-11-14
U4S{yTEG D4E.

WISHING D4E.
There is no important difference in Mon
day among those families wLo do their
own washing, The way Of observing it
is very similar. The first thing is to ga5
the man up an hour earlier than usual 10
get down the boiler. We don't under
stand whya boiler is kept on the top shelf,
where nobody but himself can reach it.
But perhaps it is not intended that we
should understand it, Having got down
the boiler, and taken his place ut the table,
and pronounced grace with Il benevolent
aspect, he is called into the kitchen again
To lift the boiler up on the stove. Ic
finds it full of water and weighing about
three-quarters of Il ton, but he sinks his
teeth into his lips, lays his eyes out or his
checks, initiates those checks, and accom-
Iiishes the task. After breakfast, which
i eaten hastily, and from table that is
garnished with 4 bar OF soap, package
of starch, and Gluiug BAG, he is sent
down cellar after the tabs, wash-boagd,
bench, etc. lie puts both tubs together
and the wash-bOa.d inside, wiki a view to
avoid coming down stairs again, although
lie has been years giving practical demon
stratiOn that those things cannot be carried
al one time. But he graSps the inside Of
bench under the other, and staIts for the
stains. No one who has not tried it can
legin to understand the amount Cf cir
Cdn SrectICn required TO engineer a wash
tab and wash-bench up the same stair
way at the same time. He knows it, but
there is an undyiug hope in his breast that
there IS way to accomplish II, and he
starts. Before reaching the stairs the
tubs slide around and the board slips out.
10 inl Is L.
on it and split it in two; but his mind
changing, he sits down the things and re-
places the board. Then he starts again
and when he has got as far up the stair
as he can 60 without proceeding edve-
ways, he turns the tubs to the front, but as
his hold 20 them has been gradually Weld
ing all the while, he finds they are so low
they strike the stair, and III an effort to
raise them the bench gives, and to save
that he loses in part his hold on the tubs.
and before he RECEIVERS it the board slips
out and goes back in ito the cellar two stems
at jump. lie turns around and looks over
the tubs down az the board, while his ewes
wear an intensity there appears 10 be no
Call for, and again attempts the ascent
He gets the bench started ahead, but the
end catches in the top step, and HAVING
exhausted his endurance and reach inercf-
ting 1t that far, finds it over 5he obstruc-
ton. 1t has grown very warm in the last
mlnvte, and his breath comes very short
and quick, and it seems as if the arm that
holds the tubs viii very soon drop off at
the shoulder and leave him acripple for life
and at this juncture the outside tub looseus
and commences to slip and threatens to
tumble. He presses his arm all the tighter
to the inside tub, and tries to get his knee
up against the outside one, but it is too
late. There is n squirm or two, and then
1t Is over. The outside tub is down with
the wash-board, having accomplished the
trip with noise that is almost deafa,iro
The other tub follows at once. boi10 r1rrsd
thereto by kick that nearly throws him
from hls feet, and then getting the door
Open he shoyeS the bench into the kitchen
ana clear across the room, to the apparent
jeopardy of the legs of the entire family.
lie then gets up the other things-mailing
no remark to nybody, but looking around |
on every one i'll 4 manner calculated To re-
1ect the greatest amount of discraCit
! hen he puts on his coat, rubs his arms.
and starts down street, and gets out on
the walk when he is called back to brine
up some wood. IF that wood was in the
shape OF burial casllet it is extremely
doubtful If he could have looked more
solemn in taking it up stairs. At noon he
comes home to dinner, and finds only one
leaf up, the table cloth in the wash. and
that his wife has cut the bread after cut
ting the soap. What comments he CON
templates making on this state of affairs
are never made. He is sent ont in the
yard armed with the clothes line. and an
injunction not to drop it in the dirt. and
IN the seclusion of the space devoted to
the back yard, he vents the spleen that has
been gathering in him, and whips the
clothes line around with sardonic iov.
Alter that he comes in with his teeth To- !
gether, and lifts two tubs full of water 10 !
the moor, and then goes into the bedroom
aid puts on a dry pair of pants, and grim |
ly eats his dinner. 1t NAV occur to him
that there is no difference in this Monday
from any that has preceded it, bat he
can't help but wonder what kind of mis-
cry that IS which comes up every time so
fresh and formidable as to appear entirely
new.-DGn5ury Netcs.