The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1875-10-07
Putting Down the Windows at Night.


, On the advent of a thunder shower 1t
israrely a man wakes first. If he should
he keeps quiet, so as not to disturb his
wife, and avails himself of the first lull
togo to sleep again. How differently!
Just as soon as she wakes up and hears
that it is raining, she -seems to lose all
Judgment. She catches her husband
bv the hair and shaking his head hys-
terically, screams:
Get up! get up, quick! Its apour-
ing right down in torrents, and. all the
windows are up"
He cannot wakeup under such cir
cumstances with an Immediately clear
conception of the case; in fact it Ere-
uuentiy happens that he is way out on
the floor before his eyesFlre fairly open,
having, but one idea really ataSOnA and
that is to what he is doing out of bed.
| The first thing to do is to strike a
light, and while he is mdvinG around
! for the matches and swearing that some
one has broken into the house and
moved them from where he HaidLthent
on, going to bed (Which is always plaus-
ible enough), she hurls after him the
following tonies:9 1
p s'SDo hurry. Mercy, how that rain Is
coming right int0thoe windows We
won't have IA carpets left If you don't
move faster. What on earth are YOU
doing all this time? Canbvfind the
matchesA Merry sake, you ant going
to stumble round here looking for
matches, are YOU, when the water is
I drowning us out? Go without a light.
What aman you aref'I might have
better got up in the first place. Well,
-(despairingly) let things 60 to ruin il
lyou are mind to. I've said all I'm
going to, and don't care if the whole
3 house goes to smash. You always
would have your own way, an l s'pose
YOU always will, and nOwyOu can do as
4 YOU please; but don't you dare to open
your mouth to me about it, when the
ruins done. I'VE talked an talked til
I'm tired to death, and ] shan't talk
anv more. We never could keep any
thing decent, and we never can; an sc
that's the end of it. CA very briet
pause.) John Henry, are you, or art
\ Won not, going to shut down those win
dows?"
just then he finds the matches, anC
breaks the discourse by striking light
He was bound to havethat help before
he moved out of thefodiil He has go
the lamp lighted n6w:~ No sooner doe
its glare fill the room than he immedi
ateiv blows it out again, for obvious
reasons. He had forgotten the windows
were open, and it almost causes him t.
SILVER when he thinks of his marrow
+ escape. So i Ak sSsS ~
He moves out into the other room
with CELEBRITY now. He knows prett,
: well the direction to 60, and when
>, flash of lightning comes it shows hin
on the verge of climbing over stool o
across the center table. If there is
+ rockinG-chair in,the house he will strik
It. A rocking-chair is much surer i
its aim than streak of lightning.
fnever misses, and it never hits ma
e but in one spot, and that is Just at tn
| base of his shin. We have fallen agains
: more than eight hundred rockers of a
e patterns and prices, and always receive
0 the first blow in the one place. w
d have been with dying people, and hav
e heard them affirm in the solemn hus
p! tof that last hour that rocking-chai
: ALWAYS hits a man on the shin first.
e And when a man gets up in the dea
e of night to shut down the windows, h
: never misses the rocking-chair. 1t
the rear end of one of the rockers whic