The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-11-06
HOUSE CLEANING IN DANBURY.

No words can satisfactorily paint the
bleakness the dreariness, the detection,
the awful gloom of house being cleaned
The windows are out, the carpets are up,
and the dining room table is full of dishes !;
every other chair contains either basin of
permeated with soap and wet and mould
and new whtewash; and the furniture is
piled promiscuously in the centre of the
rooms, excepting what is left in a heap in
the hall; in front of the bed room closet
door is rocking chair full of bed clothes,
and when the man wants to get there after
an old coat, he has to climb and shove to
get the door open, and after once in he has
to push like battering ram to get out
again the pictures arranged on the floor
leaning against the walls in way to catch
the unwary boot heel and unthinking bed
post; there is a saucer of rusty tacks on the
tete-d -tete, and besmeared bottle of balsam
on the what not, and an empty ink bottle
in the card basket, while the marble-top
centre table contains an album, piece of
dried soap, all elegant Autograph, one
tack hammer, half can of potash, a
beautiful scriptural motto on cardboard,
and ninety seven dead flies. 1t is this gen
eral upsetedness, this lawful conglomera-
ton, this dreadful uncertainty which gives
the home circle its glow of terror to a man.
This is what makes him move around as
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him every other moment to smite his head,
and gives him the vacant expression always
nseparable with the face of man whose
wife is cleaning house. And she! Is she
in pain? She has got on torn dress
hitched up at one side sufficiently to reveal
an unbottoned shoe; there are flakes of
whitewash in her hair, and on her chin :;
her dress is wet, her fingers are parboiled,
and her thumb has been split with ham,
mer, but her eye is as clear and bright as
that of major general on field day. She
picks up handful of skirts and skins
through the apartments, seeing five hun
dred things which should be done at once,
and trying to do them and every time she
comes in reach of the dresser she snatches
a look into the glass and shoves fresh
hair-pin into her dilapidated coil. And
thus planted in the debris, like queen on
her throne, she unblushingly asserts that,
otis an awful job - ''I'll be so glad when
this is over;'' Everything is in wretched
shape y at does seem as if my back will
snap in two;" ''I'm good mind to say I'll
never clean house again as long as live"
And then her mind unconsciously scars
heavenward, and she wonders if there will
be house cleaning season there, and if
not, how a heaven could be made of it. 1t
is this speculation which gives her that
dreamy expression when she is cutting
your bread with the soap knife.-Danb,ry
Necs.
REMEMBER THIs-Now is the time of the
year for Pneumonia, Lung Fever, Coughs.
Colds, and fatal results of predisposition
to Consumption and other Throat and
Lung Disease. BosCHEE's GERMAN SYRUP
has been used in this neighborhood for the
past two or three years without single
failure to cure. If you have not used this
neulclnc yourSell, go 10 your druggists
II. III. Mitchell, Elkton; f. B. Frazer, Port
Deposit, or DR.. L. r. Kirk. Rising Sum-
and ask him of its wonderful success among
his customers. Two doses will relieve the
worst case. If you have no faith in any
medicine, just buy Sample Bottle of
Boschee's German Syrup for 10 cents and
try it, Regular size Bottle rs cents
Don't neglect cough to save rs cents.
Poor women! When they wear loose,
ample skirts, everybody condemns their
extravaganza. Now that the pretty and
graceful tie back skirt comes in, the news
papers call it indecent. Why. it's the
prettiest thing in the way of dress since
Eve left Eden, and what's the use of howl
ing about it.