The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1875-10-14
PUTTING DOWN THE WINDOWS AT
MIGHT.

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PUTTING DOWN THE WINDOWS AT
MIGHT.
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On the advent of thunder shower
it 10 rarely that man wakes first. If
he should he keeps quiet so as not to
disturb his wife, and avails himself Of
the first lull to 60 to sleep again. How
differently just as she wakes up and
hears that it is raining she seems to
lose all judgment. She catches her
husband by the hair and shaking his
head hysterically screams: lo e4h
"Get up! get up, quick! It's pour
ing right down in torrents, and all the
windows are up!"
He can not wake up under such cir
cumstances with an Immediately clear
conception Of the case in fact it., fire.
quently happens that he is way out on
the floor before his eyes are fairly OPP
en-, having but one idea really at work,
and that is to what he is doing eut of
bed. The first thing to do is to strike
. light, and while he il moving aro~nd,
for the matches aud swearing that
some one has broken into the house
and moved them from where he laid
them on gsing to bod (which is always
plausible enough, she hurls after him
the following tonics: ''''.s' re-
"Do hurry. Mercy, how that rain
is coming right into those windowsI
We won't have q carpet left if you
don't move faster. What on earth are
you doing all this timer Can't find
the matches. Mercy sake, you ain't
going to stumble round here looking
for matches, are you, when the water
lis drowning Us oat7 &c without a
light. What . man you are; I might
have better got np in the first place.
Well (despairingiy) let things g to
ruin it you are q mind to. I've said
all I'm going to, an 1 don't care If the
whole house goes to smash. You al
ways would have your own way, an
I s'psse yen always will, and now ysu
can do as you please; but don't you
dare to open your mouth to me about
it when the ruins done. I've talked
an talked till I'm tired to death, and
shan't talk any more. We never
could keep anything decent, aud we
never eau aud so that's tho end of it.
"a very brief pause.) John Henry,
are you, or are yos not, going to shut
down those windows?"
just then he finds the matches, and
breaks the discourse by striking a,
light. He was bound to have that help
before he moved out of the room. He
has got the lamp lighted now. No
sooner does its glare fill the room
than he Immediately blows it o ut again
for obvious reasons. He had forgot
ten that the windows were open, and
it almost canses him to shiver when
he thinks of his narrow escape.
He moves out into the other room
with celebrity now. He knews very
well the direction to go. and when a
flash of lightning comes it shows him
on the verge Of climbing over stool
or across the center table. If there is
rocking chair in the house he will
strike it. A rocking chair is much
surer in its aim than a streak Of light
ming. 1t never misses, and IL never
hits man in but one spot, and that is
just at the base of his shin. We hsve
fallen against more than eight hundred
rockers of all patterns and prices, and
always receive the first blow in the
one place. We have been with dying
people, and have heard them affirm in
the solemn hush of that last hour that
rocking chair always hits man on
the shin first. soai sfi
And when man gets up in the
dead Of night to shut down the win
dows, he never misses the rocking
chair. 1t is the rear end of one Of the
rockers which catches him. 1t is a
dreadful agony, but he never cries out.
He knows his audience too well. A
woman never falls over a rocking
chair, and she will never understood
why a man does. But she can tell
whether man has by the way he puts
down the windows when he finally
reaches them. A rocking chair win
dow (if We may be allowed the term)
can be heard three times as far as any
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