Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-05-06
PUTTING TO RIGHTS.

IL Is not the moving SO mucn as the
putting to rights" which is so exhaus-
tive to the nervous forces of the entire
family. This is due, in great measure,
to the carelessness in moving. When a
man has a great deal to do, and little
time to do it in, he takes no thought for
the future. He throws a half-dozen
screws into n barrel with an idea that
they will turn up all right when he
wants them. The main object is to get
them III some place nOW. So when he
comes to put up the curtain fixtures in
the new house, and finds the ingredients
in mass of confusion, il is simply
because he took them down that
way, and cared only for present ease,
without any regard to future conven-
fence. In putting up the pictures, the
nails are found in the bottom of bureau
drawer, under pile of towels, and the
hammer is at the bottom of a barrel of
stovepipe in the cellar. Sometimes an
hour is consumed in searching for a sin
gle stove leg. The bread is found rolled
up in carpet In an upper bedroom, the
coffee-pot tied up in the bedding, the
sugar in barrel of carpet rags, the tea
canister in the scuttle under the fiat
irons, the spoons in with basket of
empty medicines, and the table-cloth tied
up with a half bushel of tinware. The
man does about all the work. The
woman goes round with broom and
sweeps up the SCOT, and feels of the
molding to see if they have been dam
aged, and examines the paint to see if it
is marred. She has been up the day be-
fore with hired woman and cleaned the
house, and she is very particular about
its condition. If she sees a lump of dirt
in the hall from the heel of the carman,
she carefully hoists it upon the dust-pan,
and says that all she is fit for is to slave
her life out cleaning without doing a bit
good, and then goes half way down the
garden to throw the debris away. She is
ten minutes doing it, and man would
give it one kick, and send it out of doors
in an instant. When she amt tumbling
over the wrong articles, or misplacing
the right ones, she is close at his heels
giving advice, and asking him if he thinks
a woman is made of cast iron. When he
puts down the carpet she stands on the
breadth he is trying to stretch, and tells
him she believes she will drop dead in
her tracks if she don't get chance
TO sit down pretty soon. Sometimes she
is gone from sight for nearly half an
hour, and the distant sounds of ham
mer are heard. When she returns she
has another finger in a rag, and smells
stronger than ever of arnica. Then,
when the bureau is being moved, and
her husband is struggling under his
share, till every muscle In his body is us
stiff as steel, and his face like a beet, and
his eyes protruding, :.nd the ends of his
fingers aching most aeutely, she Is around
again. They are going over the best
carpet, and she hastens back o. him be-
cause his boots are muddy, and with a
show of dexterity tries to get a length OF
old rag carpet over the new in the way
he is backing, and his feet catch in it,
and he yells, and then he strlmbles and
yells again, and catches himself only to
stumble once more, and come down with
the bureau on top of him, and the car
man ON top of the bureau. Then he
jumps up and makes the most extraor-
binary statement at the top of his voice,
and the carman limps around with his
countenance full of reproach, and she
says he has always lived in hog-pen
and always expects to; and then goes
into the next house to have good cry
ing spell and cup Ct tea.-Dan6ury
Meme