The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-10-17
Putting UP the stove.

our comfort. He kindles his fire so late
in the morning, aud banks them up so
early in ashes of cloud at night, Even
the extra coat or shawl in the evening
time do moi seem to do the work ex-
pected by them. We have had three
or four sharp frosts. In the city we
send for q man to come and examine
our furnaces, and the lighting of fires
is no exciting event. .... ....
But in the country here is day as
marked as New Year or Christmas, and
that is the day in which we put up the
stove. 1t has been standing in the gar.
ret or shed all summer, dull and dead,
the fires gone out of the old backslder.
Spiders have festooned the joints of the
pipe, and run in and out the sooty tun-
mel; the open top of the stove perhaps
having been the nursery where the old
cat honorably brought up her household
of kittens, -
But the day for putting up the stove
has come, The children fly around
with expectation, and are somewhat in
the way during the undertaking. The
pipes are brought out and emptied and
thumped clear of SCOT and dust. The
housewife goes over all the surfaces
with ,blackening polish, making the
h0mely dark handsome black, and
then the work of carrying the stove in.
to the sitting room commences. There
are not enough hands. There never
are. We have put up stoves a dozen
times, and never had help enough
Stoves are so unwieldy. and they feel
SO heavy when when YOU set them down
on your instep Father. with his low
er lip clinch,d of his teeth, lifts and
pulls and shoves, and gets fast in the
doorway. Mother and the seryinp-maid
comes to the rescue. hut null the stove
the wrong way. and get an inyocation
upon their carelessness. "Don't Won
see what YOU are doinco Pull it back
the other way! Ouch! Just look at the
back of NV hand. black nd b,ua from
this scroupinp. There vou ha We set
that ripht leg of If On NV sore toe Nv
side is stoye inlr Bnt with AN ail.tn.
gether lift the heavy burden reaches
the middle of the room. Now begins
the work of finding one of the lost legs
One of them ia gone. There ia alwavs
one of them gone. The sheds are ransack
ed to no avail, and two bricks are tenn
porarilly substituted. Then the pipe IL
to be ioined and set up, This reau,res
more conscientious and determined con.
sistency of behavior than auy other
part. A man who will keep correct
ness of speech in all the rest OF the pro.
cess needs some toning up here. You
make M your mind a. to wbere the
Joints and pieces belong. and insist on
their taking their places, but how to
insert the larger in the smaller is the
conundrum; vet with hammer YOU
Mound and bang and twist until you
have four stubborn pleces annex
ed. and have them hoisted Yon
rise on the ton of a ch air to make the
last conjunction. you handle the whole
affair with u,mo.t ski,fn,,ass Won have
vour vife holdlnc the nine at the hot
tom. and the daughter holding 4. at the
middle when without the sliebtost
nremonltIon one of the !owrr ioints
hacks ont of its n,acs and down ali
oomesin one Grand crash. the wife struck
Of the falling inieces the dopyhter
friohtaned last she NAV snmebo,y have
heen tina cause Of the misban vorr.al I
runnin, vonr sootv hand across vour
. brow to wine off the parsnitation Iaav.
, inc Won in stase struck nosition hlack
no othslIo ~ 'I Pc l1 = .
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. line OF pipe parts AT new place, untl
=. | nt last Tn fhn ralipf of thn UVhnla hnuSa