The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-06-18
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Cleaning House.
W. nlveTssgsn 4, ! q.sgda sustte
l,G II May. We have int common .ed
row and ] write these few lines On The
Fond board with bureau drawer iqr ! seat
willie Long Primer is playing ho.se in the
Iar9r With tpst Of andrew ! ackson and
Small Plea rs Dipping lace curt-ins into .
pail Of whItewaah.
We don't clean one room at s time, bat
70 at it in ii wholesale way and rake the
OLD house from floor 10 roof Three morn
iugs ago when started dosutosa ny xife
said in her innocent dseei sipg gay that
he guessed she'd DO little house clean
ing and that we'd have pickup dinner.
Whom 1 returned home tue bsdsteads were
circling around the back yard, the kitchen
rtoye was buried under the straw beds the
curtains were down, windows out, carpets
4r, aud four Africans we're mildly drawing
their whiteaash brushes over the ceiling
and having an anlra ated sd.scus sion aarus
cremation NJ vie would fave Il 50 clean
thar fly would break its neck slipping
down, and she was 10 enthusiastic about IT
:hat cheerfuly ate dianer of the mantle
piece and made 10 remarks whea found
the corr Of tue camphor Fbonle AMI The
front door key stufsdsintosthesspout Of the
coffee pot. When left the house Small
Pea was hanging to the pegs Of the
hail-tree and singh & - .Iulie Drling,s
and Long Primer was trying TO wipe the
whitewa.h out Of his left eye with chrome
Of the Yosemite Valley, but Ey wife said |
needn't stay on their account. 81
came W at night believing that every
sling would be regulated, but the bed
steads in the back yard had increased in
number, chromes were hanging to the
clothes line, the clock was teIi,g dissected
IN the alley By youth q! great inventive
genus, and carpets, chairs, stair rods, look
ing glasses, crockery, braeknts and rohn, 4.
pins were so piled it together that my head
swan.
N" I'm hurrYing il ups said my wifs.n a.
joyful tone as She waved her hand at the
PAINTERS, a scrub woman and carpenter
who had been added, TO the force.
l sat down.on the teakettle and had sup
per served on the north end Of a spring,
mattress, and when broke tooth on "a
glass agate concealed in buacuit, and
didn't say a work, Mrs. Quad threw her
arms around line apd said she lnigat, bave
married a tnan With e Eightning' tem5er. :
| felt hattered and went in to GncoI rage
he whitewashers and painters. They said
if it didn't rain, or WASH too cold, or too
hot, und they kept in good health, and
other jobs didn't distract their attention,
,hey I'd inish thia asNeek o. two,.and
one Of them smashed vase and another
punched out a three dollar pane uf classify
way of emphasis. had blue paint on my
coat tails, white on rly elbows and straw
color on my knees when got out, and .
bad boy yelled cut
" Here comes another fthem variegatcd
sundpwers :"
We didn't sleep much the night. Some
how or other, NO Bla tts = how honest plan .
is, he can't rest very veils on a.strIw bed
en- the floor, with stove covers gliding
around under his back, and teaspoons, po-
into Washers and pini basins feeling of his
toes. | dreamed that | was a panel bed /
stead on casters, and had ? bet Of S.
with the parlor stove that could lick the
front bedroom bureau in just two minutes,
hut before the "miIf'cane off .the spice
can rolled down into my eur and woke one
up. @
Next morning Small Plea. who was in
bounding spirits, essayed a lunch off of
half pound Of putty which the painters
and left sticking to a bronze bust Of De
mosthenes, and Long Primer saa down on
butcher knife and got up howling ; bat
my wife said this was a world of trfing
incidents and ted me to go off feeling
happy. Before got down townI found
the sugar spoon in my vest pocket and a
towel hltched to me coat tail, but | went
on. 4 noon there was an extra painter On
hand, another scrubbing woman for the
stains, and an orphan boy about thir.y-six
years old had been hired to empty the
straw beds on the front steps and tear out
the pantry shelves. We haven't got
through yet--in fact, That is chapter. l.
There are eleyea more chapters toscome,
ana 10 night / am going III Sleep oa the
table, Small Pea in sixgallon jar aud
the rest Of them on th. window slils, as the
kitchen floor had been just painted and tie
paper han ,ers don't want the other rooms
mussed up until the paste dries and the
paint sets. s
LATER-MIpNIGHT-I fell asleep and
dreamed that l Mas silver plated, six bot
tie revolving castor, and that the soup
turcen called ne q liar. l~ent to 20 for
him and awoke on the door aud the meat
broiler wildly clatehing me by the throat.
What the morrow viii bring fourth don't
knox. NJ. QUAD :,
A0UATION.
The discussion Of the cremation question
, III