Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-06-20
they will be married-myself in them.
to the young lady just alluded to.
HOW TO ACT IN CASE OF FIRE.

There are very few people who can
keep cool in case they discover q fire,
and this is the reason why more fires
are not put out in their incipient stages,
before any great damage is done.
In case you are walking along the
street and discover chimney burning
out, make up your mind that the whole
house has got to go unless your own in
dividual exertions prevent. Therefore
jerk the gate off the hinges, kick the
front door in on the astonished family.
and yell "frew Your first yell needn't
be louder than the common Indian war
whoop, but after the first you must ex-
ert yourself in grand efforts to beat any
other man in that town who ever yelled
over burning chimney. The family
may desire an explanation as the front
door falls in and you bound over it and
begin to throw the chairs around. There
is no set answer to repeat, but most
men manage to say:
"Fire!-fire!-your house-get out
fire-hurry-blazes- -fire-hang it-fre
-frew
They will generally accept the expla-
nation without argument, and you can
go ahead and rescue the contents of the
house. Always commence at the par
lor ornaments first. If you haven't
time to save anything but a chrome,
half a marble-top stand, and the head
of piece of statuary, you don't know
how far these things would go toward
setting the burned-out family to house.
keeping again. The windows are made
to throw things through. If you can
fling all the ornaments out, wrench the
sofa to pieces, and break the legs off of
the chairs, you can consider you have
saved everything in the parlor worth
saving. If there is stove in there tip
it over as you rush to save the bedding
and other furniture. Don't throw a
bed from chamber-window; nothing
will break fcather-bed to pieces as
quick as a fall. Take them on your
back and carefully carry them from two
to four blocks away and deposit them
gently on doorstep.
But the case is different with crock
cry and looking-glasses; you can heave
them out on the sidewalk with perfect
confidence that they wouldn't even get
a flaw. Don't try to save whole bed
stead, but wrench it to pieces, and throw
three or four Stats out, and then grab
the bureau. Bureaus are cumbersome
articles to handle, and it's best to divide
them in halves with an ak, and throw
down the portions separately.
had forgotten to say that it is posi-
lively necessary for you to yell I" fire"
twice per second, from the time you
kick the door in till the fire is out, or
the house is burned down. If you
didn't do this, some of family might
forget that the house was on fire and
make arrangements to go visiting, or
put on dried apples to stew, or go to
setting emptyings.
An ordinary cool man will clear
house of all worth saving in about fif-
teen minutes, especially if he has lit
tie help. If the house goes for it, the
family will not fail to remember that,
but for you, they might have been
roasted alive; and if the flames are
subdued, they'll pick up the looking
glass frames, drawer-knobs, pitcher
handles and chair-legs, and move back
in with hearts full of gratitude that you,
noble hero, through your GOODNESS and
self-possession, saved all that was worth
saving.--FTeside Friend.