Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-05-15
THE NEW NEIGHBOR.
Danbury Woman Pays her Visit, and
Reports Progress, Rs told by the "Newso
Man,


A Danbury Woman Pays her Visit, and
Reports Progress, as told by the "Newso
Man. -i.
A new family moved into the neigh
borhood on Friday, and at dinner the
next day Mrs. Cobleigh said to her hus-
band 'fsr r- ....l.. .. .
"Cobleigh, a new family has taken
Holcomb's house, and 1 guess I'll run
over and see them this afternoon" 1s %
"You don't know them, do you9"
said Mr.. Cobleigh, in surprise.
"Why, no but that don't make any
difference in such case for, you see,
they are total strangers, and it's proper
that the older neighbers should call on
them, out of courtesy. Now, I know
how I'd feel if I was in their place--not
knowing a soul about hers-Pd like to
have some one call. And SO want to
do to them as I'd like them to do to me,
you know"
Mr.. Cobleigh was much pleased with
this expression of the golden rule from
his wife, and told her so.
"The other neighbors will be calling,
without doubt, " she added, "and don't
want to be among the last
After washing the dinner dishes and
putting the house to rights, Mrs. Cob,
leigh put herself in excellent condition,
and started out on her laudable call.
At the tea table Mrs. Cobleigh said to
her husband:
81 went over to see the folks in Hol-
combs this afternoon"
"Ah !" said he "was she glad to see
you?"
"Oh, yes asked her if there had
been any of the other neighbors in, and
she said was the first. She amt very
old-not more than thirty, should say,
and she's got three children, one of them
a baby. The two others are boy and a
girl, both of them old enough to be OF
help to her. The boy was off some.
where, and the girl was racing through
the yard like wild ingin, although she
is eleven years old, and looks as strong
as a horse. Now, if our Mary was one.
half SO strong as that trollop, I'd be sat-
isfied. 1t makes me so vexed to see O
mother shaving her life away, and big
tom-boy of girl tearing around the
place like all-possessed. She came in
the house only once while / was there,
and then she stood up against her mother
like great baby, and put her finger il
her mouth, and fouted herself like
spoiled child. don't see for the life oi
me what the women of this age are
thinking of to bring up children in thai
way. And she looked herself as if she
was about ready to drop, with all the
care and work. Her husband is a shoe
maker, and works at the shoe factory.
"They can't be in such very good cir
cumstances, I don't think, for the parlol
carpet is only two-ply ingram, and !
noticed it was spotted in several places
The parlor chairs are just common wooi
stained, and she has large awkward
bed lounge instead of tete-a tete, ant
it doesn't match with the chairs at all
Her crockery is simply stone china, ant
there are several odd pieces among it
She didn't have any china, at least
didn't see any, and if she'd had it she't
a showed it, know. She amt geine
to have anything on the kitchen floor
she says, and only piece of oil-cloth il
the dining groom. What oil-cloth I saw
was old and faded. She has got up thu
kitchen stove-it's like old Mrs. Ran
som's-but it was covered with grease
and some of the pipe was badly rustsd
1 don't see why people can be SO careless
with their property. That pipe woult
last ten years if it was properly caret
for. Then her parlor stove stood out il
the shed, without anything over it, ant
it will pretty soon go the way of tn
kitchen pipe. I spoke to her about it
but she said she didn't think it woulC
take any harm. o, she's an easy one
that's plain enough to be seen, and i
she don't have trouble with that gir
before many years pass, then I'm nj
prophet The baby was on the foo
when l was over there, playing will
some empty bottles. It's real brigh
child, but it don't have proper attention
don't believe its hair has seen a comI
in three days, and its clothes looks as j
they had been mopped over the floor TO
a fortnight-they were as black as ink.
declare it seemed like getting into ney
world to get back home. But I had t.
go, of course, and l am glad now it i
over with. 1t won't be necessary for m
to call again"
And Mrs. Cobleigh, having discharge,
Christian duty to a neighbor, gathereC
up the crumbs from her lap with a nap
kin, and smiled complacently upon he
family. ..' 3. 3 ,''.
:. Veneering. s
For some time sheets of veneer hav
been produced so large and thin tina
they can be used in place of wall paper
) by simply being glued against the wall
In order to make them, a round log, tw
, or three feet long, is placed in lath
and slowly revolved, while sharp knit
, of the length of the log is SO placed an
, firmly supported as to act like plane
cutting thin film from the circumfel