The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1875-04-26
Things Around the House.

Ny e1itire household, including The
hired girl, is full Of satisfaction tonight
OYER the fact that | have Just driven tho
ax.inndie firmly into the OK and wedged
it there, so that IL G8tnnot under any cir
cumstance come ont. II iliay read like
q small matter to you, but do you know
tllat that llelve had been loose for nearly
five yearsl Yes, for five years that ax
lias flung itself across the yard whenever
/ struck u heavy blow, leaving the helye
In my hand, and suppose | have de-
cided more than a thousand times 10 go
in and get q hammer and cliiscl and fas.
ten the helye in. I was thrown down
and Ind my arm broken by the OK flying
of, two hired girls Ind their noses
broken, we spoiled tlld stove.boilers,
nearly killed three boys, and yet I didn't
get around to fix the ax until to-day.
Foster wus telling me the other day
that he Ind finally glued TINT knob on
to the bureau drawer, and he seemed
greatly relieved. I remember when that
knob was knocked of-almost seven
years ago. Iwas helping him move tile
bureau when the accident occurred, and
never was in the house afterward with
out hearing Mrs. Foster say:
"Come, Henry, haven't you got
time TO fix that knob on this even
ingl"
md yet It was seven years before he got
at it,
Seven or ghtyears ago my neighbor,
Mr.. Goodwin, found n COW among his
cabbages ono day, and in driving her
ont she jumped over tho cato and broke
one Of the hinges. He went In and got
n hammer, screw-driver, and screws to
repair damages, but his vito called him
into breakfast just then. After break
fast he hadn't time, and so II rar along
until the other day. He passed through
tho gato an average OF five times per
day for about seven yeers, or thirteen
thousand times in all, and he had lifted
il up, carried 1t around and bothered
for half minute each time. Thirteen
thousand times he said TO himself that
he would fix that confounded gate, and
yet he didn't do II until the other day.
Some twelve or thirteen years ago !
was taking dinner with Turner, over on
Adams avenue, and his wife called nt-
tention TO the fact that she Ind TINT day
broken tile handle Of her big seven.
pound ilat.iri n, and tint she must get
another. The other day / met her on
The street. nnd she told me she Ind rc.
placed the fat.iron OF last. For thirteen
years, fiity.two times per year, sho had
used that broken handled iron to smooth
down her washing, and every time she
Ind said to herself that slie would go up
town next day and order o new one.
Bristow died Inst week. We were
warm friends, and / was with him to the
last. After he had called tho family up
one by one, and shaken hands and said
good bye, I saw that tlorewas yet some
thing on his mind. / admonished him
to trust me II he had dying request,
and he grasped my hand and replied:
"I'ye been trying to find time for the
Inst seventeen years to take tho butcher
knife down to the shop aud have it
ground, and II it wouldn't bc asking too
much OF you, I wish you'd seeto II"
Ipromised him, but II may be twenty
years before I got the knife to the shop,
and ton years before 1 call for u.
l can remember when old Mrs. Bag
ley died. She had q china teapot in her
house which had belonged to her grand
mother, but she had always kept it in
the drawer because the handle was bro
ken and wanted cementing. She gave
the teapot to a neiglbor, who waited
FIVE years for bottle Of cement, than
four years more to find time, aud finally
knocked the spout off while trying to
mend the handle. .,-
I don't suppose any Of US would for
get tho tlay q note was due, but II the
knob should drop off chamber door,
I expect that George Francis Train
might he elected President before VIC
would find time to replace it.