The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-01-27
TAKING IN THE CLOTHES
An AgonizIng Domestic Experience
How u Man Helps HIS Wtfc.

An AgonizIng Domestic Experience
How n Man Helps HIS Wtfe.
From the Danbury News.
What frightful sensation this is
when you have just got home OF a cold
Monday night aud pulled your boot;
off, to be told that the week. washing
is out On the line and must be brought
in. Now to do this OF dewy eve ia
summer, with the delecate perfume o.
flowers filling the air, and a brass band
on the next street, is not exactly
hardship, but to do it in the dead Of
winter, with a chilling breeze blowing
and the clothes as stiff as rolling pin
is something no man can contemplate
without quaking. We don't quite un-
derstaud how it is that man invaria-
bly gets his boots of before
the dread summons comes, bu'
the rest OF it is plain
enough. There is a sort OF rebellion:
feeling in his heart which prompts him
to try to entapgle his wife IN an argu'
ment, and, failing in this, he snatchet
up the basket ard goes out in the yard
with it, rapping it against the sides ol
the door with as much vigor as il il
were not purely accidental. II tn fond
wife ia apy yay attentive, she can hear
his well.known voice consigning VAR
ious objects to eternal suffering long
after be has disappeared. There is nc
Ieyity in q line OF frozen clothes. Every
article is as frigid as the Cardiff giant
and the man who wreuches the pin of
aud then holds the basket in expecta'
ton OF seeing the piece drop of the lint
OF it's own accord is too pure and simple
for this world. But our man isn't 0
that nature. lie catches hold OF tn,
garment with his chilled hand, anc
seeks to pull it of, but it dosn't come
Then he yarks it upward. and down
ward, and then sideways and when i
comes off it maintains the shape it ha
been all afternoon working into, which
permits it Just as readily to enter tn
basket as TO be showed through th
key-hole of valise. The first artlcl
doubles up with bis hands, and ther
is a faint semblance Of csreiulpess IL
packing them away; but after that b
smashes them away into the baske
without spy ceremony, and crowd
them down with his foot. He uses to
ssme care in taking down a fine cam
brio handkerchief that he does in cap
turing q sheet, and makes two hand
kerchiefs OF every one. When be get
far from the basket. he allows the ar
ticles TO multiply 10 his arms, e.
to save steps and wher
be gets bis arms fall o
the awkward and miserable things
whose sharp, icy corners jab him in To
neck aud face, he comes to an artIcl
that refuses to give way on one end
He pulls and shakes desperately at it
bowling and screaming in his rage. un
I'll be Inadvertently steps on the drag
giug emu VI q eueet, oou '"SS ~
down fiat on the frozen snow, bu
bounds up again, grating his teeth, an
hastily depositipg the bundle in tn
basket, darts back 70 the rt!tactor.
member, and taking hold OF 1t, aercel.
tugs at il, while ne fairly jumps up ant
down in the extremity Of his apge
and cold. Then it comes unexpectedly
and with it a part of tie next article
and he goes over agaih--this time o
his back, and with violence. Witt
the clothes gathered, ne takes the bas
ket up 10 his livid hands, thus bring
iog the top articles agairs. his alresd
frozen chin, and, thus tortured, propel
his Eieless limbs into the house. Sh
stands ready 10 tell him to close Oh
door, and il thoughtful enough TO as
him il it's cold work. But if he 10
wise man be viii make 20 snswer.
he is q wise man be will silently plar
. himself in front Of the stove, snt
framing his frosen features into sn in
plscable frown, we'll preserve that e1
terror without Che fsiutest modifcafo
until bed-tiEs.