The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1873-05-08
Domestic Picture.

The annual ceremony of takinu up.
whipping, and putting down carpets. is
almost Uaon US II is one of the Ills which
flesh is heir TO. auI cannot be avoided
You 90 home some pleasant Snrino day.
at peace with the world. and find the ba,.v
with clean face, and YOU get YOUR favorite
pudding for dinner. Then your wife tells
YOU how much Younger YOU are looking.
and saws She really hopcs she can turn
that walking dress She wore last fall, and
save the expense OF a new suit, and then
she asks YOU il you can't Just help her
about taking up the carpet. If you are II
fool. and YOU generally are by that time,
yon tell her of course YOU can lust as Well
| a. not Then she Gets a saucer for the
tacLs and stands and holds it. and then
/ Won pnt the claw and 90 down on your
! knees and bepin 10 hcln her. You feel
ouite economical about the first three
tacks and take them ont carefully. and
put them in the saucer Your wife is
/ good about holdino the saucer, and be-
| cuiles Won with an interestinp Story about
! how your neiohbor's little boy is not ex-
pected TO live till morninp. Then Won come
| to the tack with a crooked head. and YOU
| pet the claw nnder If and the head comes
/ off. and the leather comes off. and the
| Garnet comes off. and as if won't do 10
I leave the tack in the floor. because it will
fear the Garnet when if is put down again.
Won po to work and skin your knuckles
| and aot silver under your thumb nail.
and fell vour wife to shut ND about that
everlasting bov and make mn volr mind
that il does NOT make any difference-about
that tack and so Won Seoin on the corner
who're mo Garnet i doublnd two or three
times and has been nailed down with a
shinc % nail
Ynn don't care = continental about say
;ng thn nail hnc,nsa Won find that i j.
not n GOOD time tor the practice of
economy int Won do feel a little hurt
when bo-h claws break off from the claw.
/ and the nail does not bulge a peg. Then
| vour manhood asserts itself and Won rise
| in vonr mioht and throw the CARPET claw
at tbe doc, and oct hold of the carpet with
both hands and thn air Is full of dust and
Ayinr tacks. and there is 4 firing of carpet
warn all alone Tho moD-board and The
bahv cries and the eat Goes anywhere.
| anywhere ont of the world and y0ur wife
saws Won ourht to he ashamed of yourself
| to talk so-but that carpet comes up.
! Then YOU lift one side of the stove and your
/ wife tries 10 yet the carpet from under it,
but can't because YOU are standing on it.
| So Won oct a new hold. and lust ahel
! your back breaks the carpet Is clear You
! are not through vet. Your wife don'ttelI
Won any more little stories. but gets Your
| old coat and hangs it ON vou and opens
I the back door and shoves YOU out. and
lntimates that the carpet needs whipping
When Won hanr the tormentinu thing
| across the clothes line the wrong way,
and oct it righted. anG have it slide of
into the mud, and hang it up again. and
Get half pint of dust and three broken
tacks snapped out of the Northwest cor
ner into YOUR mouth bv the wind YOU
! make some observations which Won
neglected to mention while in the house
Then YOU hunt up a stick and 20 for that
carpet.
The first blow hides the sun, and all the
fair face of nature. behind n cloud ot
! dust, and, RIGHT in the centre of that
cloud, with the wind square in your face,
no matter how YOU stand. vou WELD that