Wilmington daily commercial., 1875-07-29

| ferently woman acts-oh, 30 differently just
a. soon as she wakes up and hears that 1t is rain
ing, she seems to lose all Judgment at once.
She plants both Of her feet into her husbands
back, at the same time catching him by the
hair and ahaking his head, and Historically
screamn,- F
"Get up get up. quick It's pouring right
down In torrents, and all the windows are up y
He cannot wake up under such circumstances
with an immediate clear conception Of the case /;
in fact it frequently happens that he is way ont
on the floor before his eyes are fairly open, hay
ing but one idea at work, and that as t. what he
is doing cut of bed. The first thing to do is to
strike Light, and while he is moving around
for the matches, and swearing that some one
has broken into the house aud moved them from
where he laid them on going to bed (Which is al
ways plausible enough), che hurls after him the
following tonics:
"Do hurry Mercy, how that rain is coming
right into those windows We won't have
carpet left il you don't move faster. What on
earth are You doing all thls timer Can't find
the matches? Mercy sake, you amt going to
stumble round here looking for matches. are yon,
when the water is drowning us ont2 Go with
out light. What q man you are might have
better got up in the first place. Well despair
ingy) let the things go to ruin if you are a mind
to. I've said all I'm going to, an l don't care
if the whole house goes to smash.
You always have your own way, an | 'spose
you always will, and now you can do as you
please but don't You dare to open yonr mouth
to me about it when the ruins done. I've talked
an talked till I'm tired to death, and l shan't
talk any more. We never could keep anything
decent, and we never can and so that's the end
Of it. IA very brief pause.l John Henry, are
you or are you not going to shut those win
dows Z"
Just then he finds the matches, and breaks
the discourse by striking light He was bound
to have that help before he moved out of the
room. He has got the lamp lighted now. Ne
sooner does its glare fill the rooms than he i'm
mediately blows it out again for obvious rea-
SONS. He had forgotten the windows were open
and the brevity Of his night shirt. 1t almost
causes him to shiver when he thinks Of his mar
row escape. He moves out into the other room
with celebrity now. He knows pretty well the di-
rection to go, and when a fash of lightning
comes it shows him on the verge of climbing
over stool across the centre table. II there ie
a rocking chair in the house he will strike it.
A rocking chair is much surer in its aim than a
streak of lightning. 1t never misses, and it
never hits man but in one spot, .and that is
Just at the base of his shin. We have fallen
against more than eight hundred rockers of MI
patterns and prices, and have always received
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.
And when a man gets up in the dead of the
night to shut down windows, he never misses
the rooking-chair. 1t is the rear end Of one of
the rockers which catches him. 1t is dreadful
agony. But he rarely cries ont. He knows his
a rocker, and she..never understands why man
does But she can tell whether he has By the
way he puts down the windows when he finally
reaches them. A rocking chair window (if we
be allowed the term can be heard three times
as far as any other.