Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-05-27
Putting to Rights.

III is not the moving so much as the
putting to rights" which is so exhaust
i've to the nervous forces of the entire
family. This is due, in great measure,
to the carelessness in moving. When a
man has got a great deal to do and little
time to do it in he takes no thought for
the future. He throws a half a dozen
screws into barrel with an idea that
they Will turn up all right when he
wants them. The main object is to get
them in some place now. SO when he
comes to put up the curtain fixtures in
the new house and finds the ingredients
in mass of confusion it is simply be-
cause he took them down that way and
cared only for the present case, without
any regard to future convenience. In
putting up the pictures the nails are
found in the bottom of q bureau drawer
under pile of towels, and the hammer
is at the bottom of barrel of stove-pipe
in the cellar. Sometimes an hour is
consumed in searching for a single
stove-leg. The bread is found rolled
up in carpet in an upper bedroom, the
coitee-pot tied up in the bedding, the
sugar in pile Of carpet-rags, the tea
canister in the scuttle under the tiat-irons,
the spoons in with basket of empty
r1edicine bottles, and the table-clorh
tied up with half bushel of tinware.
The man does about all the work. The
woman goes around with the broom and
sweeps up all the SCOT, and feels of the
holdings to see ii they have been dam
aged, and examines the paint to see If it
has been marred. She has been up the
day before with hired woman and
cleaned the house, and she is very par
ticular about its condition If she sees a
lump of dirt in the AAil from the car
mans foot she carefully hoists it upon
the dustpan, and says that all she is fit
for is to slave her life out cleaning, with
out doing q bit of good, and then goes
half way down the garden to throw the
debris away. She is ten minutes doing
1t, and man would gave it one kick and
send it out doors in an instant. When
she amt tumbling over the wrong ar.
ticles, Or misplacing the right ones, she
is close at his heels giving advice, and
asking him if he thinks a woman is
made of cast-iron. When he puts down
the carpet she stands on the breadth he
is trying to stretch, and tells him she
believes she will drop dead in her
tracks if she don't get chance to sit
tpO Il PiNtty soti1- AOIHttliilto siiS 10 SphS
from sight for nearly half an hour, and the
distant sounds of hammer are heard.
When she returns she has another finger
in rag, and smells stronger than ever
of arnica. Then, when the bureau is be-
| ing moved and her husband is struggling
under his share, till every muscle in his
body is as stiff as steel and his face like
a beet, and his eyes protruding, and the
ends OF his fingers aching most acutely,
she is around again. They are going
over the best carpet and she hastens back
| to him because his boots are muddy and
with show of dexterity tries to get a
length of old rag carpet over the new in
the way he is backing, and his feet catch
| in it, and he yells, and then he stumbles
and yells again, and catches himself only
! TO stumble once more and come down
| with the bureau on top of him and the
! carman on top Of the bureau. Then lie
! jumps up and makes the most eXtraor-
/ binary statement at the top of his voice
1 and the carmar limps around with hi;
! countenance full OF reproach and she
/ says she has always lived in hogpen
/ and always expects to; and then goes to
the next house to have good crying
/ spell and cupof tea.-DanbnTy Neps.