Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-03-25
Things Around the House.

My entire household, including the
hired girl, is full of satisfaction tonight
over the fact that have just driven the
x,handle firmly into the ax and wedged
IL there 80 that IL cannot under any cir
cumstances come out II may read like
small matter to you, but do you know
that that helve had been loose for nearly
five years. Yes, for five years that AK
has flung itself across the yard whenever
| struck heavy blow, leaving the helve
in my hand, and suppose | have de-
cided more than thousand times TO go
In and get II hammer and chisel and
fasten the helve In. | was thrown down
and had my arm broken by the AK flying
OFF, two hired girls had their noses
broken; we spoiled the ove-boilers,
nearly killed three boys, and yet didn't
get around 10 fix the ax until to day.
Foster was telling me the other day
that he had finally glued that knob on to
he bureau drawer and he seemed greatly
relieved. l remember when tina. knob
was knocked off--almost seven years
ago. Twas helping him move The bureau
when the accident occurred, and never
was In the house afterward without
hearing Mrs. Foster say:
Come, Henry, haven't you got time
TO fix that knob on this EVENING"
Yes, Martha" he would reply, and
yet 1t was seven years before he got
to ii.
Seven or eight years ago my neighbor.
Mr.. Goodwin, found COW among his
! cabbages one day and In driving her out
she jumped over the gate and broke one
Of the hinges. He went In and got ham
mer, screw.driver and screws to repair
damages, but his wife called him In TO
breakfast just then. After breakfast he
hadn't time, and SO 1t ran along until the
other day. He passed through the gate
an average Of five times per day ior
about seven years, or 1900 times in all,
and he had TO lift IL up, carry II around
and be bothered for half o minute each
time. Thirteen thousand times he said
to himself that he would fix that con-
founded gate, and yet he didn't do 1t
until the other day
Some twelve or thirteen years ago L
was taking dinner with Turner, over on
Adams avenue, and his wife called at
tention TO the fact she had that day
broken the handle OF her big seven.
pound fat.iron and that she must get an
other. The other day ] met her on the
street and she told me she had replaced
that flatiron ut last. For thirteen years
fiftytwo times per year she had used that
broken handled iron TO smooth down her
washing. and every time she had said TO
herself that she would go uptown next
day and order new one.
Bristow died last week. We were
warm friends and was with him TO the
last. After he had called the family up
! one by one and shaken hands and said
ku II ttaf
thing on bis mind. ] admoni-hed him
TO trust me II he had dying request,
| and be grasped my hand and replied:
"I've been trying to find time for the
last seventeen years to take the butcher
knife down to the shop and have II
ground, and, II it wouldn't be asking too
much Of you, wish you'd see TO iii"
promised him, but 1t may be twenty
years before get the knife 70 the shop,
aud ten years more before call for IL.
/ can remember when old Mrs. Bagley
died She had china teapot in her
house which had belonged 70 her grand
mother, but she had always kept II in
the drawer because the handle was bro
ken and wanted cementing Dhe gave the
teapot to neighbOr, who waited five
years for bottle Of cement, then four
years more TO find time, and finally
knocked the spout off while trying TO
mend the handle.
don't suppose any Of as would forget
the day note was due, but IL The knob
should drop off chamber door expect
that George Francis Train might be
elected President before we would find
time to replace tt" AZ. Quad" in Our
Ftreside friend.
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MARCH came in like whole menagerie
of lions Unless the lamb and lion story
is lynn story he will go out like mill.
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