The daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-17
Ghe 9ailg Argns,
Independent IN Everything.
4 PAPER OF PEPPER.
Mrs Forbes Kept it on the Top Shelf and Her
Husband Discovered It.

From the Danbury News
The housewife will do we'll to keep her
surplus pepper in loose paper on an up
per shelf. Mrs Forbes of Nelson street is |
distinguished for that trait of domestic |
government. MIR. Forbes keeps the piece |
of mutton tallow with which he strength |
ems his boots in piece of paper also. We
don't pretend to say that Mr. Forbes puts
this mutton tallow on an upper shelf. or
any shelf at all, when he gets through with |
it. We wouldn't dare say this in the face
of the fact that Mr. Forbes has always to
search for that tallow, and always appears
surprised when it is handed him. But he
keeps it in paper, and the advent of snow
Saturday morning prompted him to look
for it. Mrs. Forbes had her attention at
tracted towards him by his getting down
on his knees to peer under the stove, and
by remark that he accidentally dropped
to the effect that he bet he'd build a
house vet that he could put thing in and
find it again" She asked him what he
was looking for, but he preserved moody
silence, and continued the search, taking
the kettles out from beneath the sink, and
scrutinizing each one with unrelenting Sc
! verify. "Why don't you tell me what you
| are looking for?' demanded Mrs. Forbes.
None of your business" said he snap
pishly. II don't believe you know what
you are looking for, retorted Mrs Forbes
and appeared to receive much consolation
from the remark IF things were left
where they were put, exclaimed Mr.
Forbes, now thoroughly exasperated, they
could be found again" Whatever observa-
ton Mrs. Forbes contemplated venturing
in reply to this was abruptly cut off by the
/ advent OF neighbor who wanted to con-
suit her in regard to the trimming of a
cloak Mrs. Forbes hastily adjourned to
the sitting room, and Mr.. Forbes passed
i into the pantry to explore 1.-The shelves.
Bits of paper peeping over the edge Of the
upper shelf Immediately attracted his at
tention, and he proceeded to take them
down. Now woman would have taken a
chair for this purpose that she might bet
ter see what she was doing, but man
rarely descends to the weakness Of wo-
man. AS long as the contents of a shelf
can be reached he does not care to see the
, shelf ITSELF And so Mr.. Forbes stood or
5 his tiptoes, and, reaching up, began to drag
, down the paper parcels. Mrs. Forbes in
the sitting room with the neighbor, and
completely engrossed in the particulars Of
! the new cloak was startled out of her chain
by a partly smothered oath, and a fully
developed bound, and out of her senses by
piercing shrek and terrific crash, anc
flying into the kitchen found the breakfas
y table tipped over, and the portly and con
: sentative Mr.. Forbes prancing in among
I the ruins of crockery and food, madly rub
Q bling his eyes, and sneezing most vocifer
!. ously. The poor woman was immediatel.
a made aware of the cause of the mishap
e His passionate reference to pepper in pa
8 per packages, to the awful stupidity of tn
female sex, and to future world, all o
= which, most singularly jumbled together
II needed no unraveling to make them NOR
explicit. She dragged him to the sink, sh
dashed cold water in his face and bosom
: the rubbed his ears, and pounded him be
tween the shoulders, and besought hin
with flushed face and fearful eyes mot t
carry on and make such an idiot of hin
self" Il was sometime, even under he
skilful treatment, before he could stif1e b
screams and profanity and venture to ope
his bleared and infamed eyes; and it VS.
not until she had said eight times that
''he had only told her what he wanted tn
, might have been saved did he feel suf
v GENTLY recovered to dash into that pantl
and demolish that shelf.