The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-02-01

An elderly gentleman residing on Mann
street was. until Friday last, inclined to
favor female suffrage His wife had pru
dently delayed moving until after the lst
50 as to take advantage of the fall in house
rents The house to which they moved
had a tremendous steep flight. of stairs,
and an oil clothed hall The wife had the
stairs scrubbed down and lett the soap on
the top step Her husband WAS up stairs
with i basket full Of clothes pins in one
hand and 4 clock under the other arm,
| when his wife who was down stairs, saw
q mollse, and shaking her skirts madly,
bounded upon the table and let OFT Il
series Of shritks beginning in I'M above
the clel Her husband. thinking that the
house wa on fire ut the very least, start
el TO run to her rescue, and stepping ON
the piece d. soap she had 50 thOughllully
left on the stairs. sat down vehemently ut
the top of the flight and Slid down with
the speed of thought. Fire flew from his
false teeth rs he struck the edge OF each
step, v0llies Of clotlles-pins were discharg-
ed into the air and fell rattling and re-
| bounding on the oil cloth, and the clock
shed its inwaris over the universe. The
| injured husband had little time for reilec-
ton, when he reached the glare oil cloth
and shot across it with scarcely diminished
velocity, literally making the oil cloth and
| the seat of his pants smoke with friction,
and finally bringing up against the door
| with violence that threatened to burst the
| side out of the house. The fearful conclusion
| startled his wife, who turned Il back somer-
| sault from the table into a tub OF soap suds
in which she was so tightly fixed that she
had to perform a handspring and canter
on all fours like a turtle with Il tub on her
back and cataracts inundating her. Mean
while the hired woman fell Oft the step
ladder with a crash like Il pile driver, and
Jared down most of the plaster cornlce.
When the mans wife had sloughed her
tub, she sauntered calmly into the hall
and remarked:
"Well men are the clumsiest-and the
hall had lust been washed too" Her hus-
band did not say much, but thought a
good deal, and now, he says Just let Susan
B. Anthony come here and lecture again,
and if no other man has the courage to
hiss, he will. so help him Jasper Packe-
merton.
A lady. the wife of u prominent lawyer
in this city. annoyed beyond endurance
with the worthlessncss of black nurses,
determined to substitute white maid tor
her children, and from the candidates
presenting themselves she chose very
pretty girl from Alexandria, whose re-
concentrations were au tait, and who
looked still prettier in her white frilled
apron and bonnie cap, and the mothers
heart was proudly happy as the little ones
took their airing under so charming an es-
cort. After the novelty had worn off, Vir-
ginia dropped, and did not seem contented,
and electrified her mistress one morning
by informing her that she would leave
when her month was out.
Don't you like the children ?" inquired
the lady.
Eyes, a'am."
"Do you think that you have too much to
do?" pressed the mistress.
mo, ma'am.'
Don't YOU get on with the other SER
vants?" persisted madam.
YES, ma'am."
"Do tell me why you are dissatisfied,
Virginia. and perhaps | can remedy it,
insisted the lady.
81 have no fault to find with the place
ma am, but I'd rather live where | receive
more attention from the gentlemen OF the
family than do here"
Attention! what do you mean, girl p
snapped madam.
"Why, when lived with Mrs. f., Mr. F
always came into the nursery mornings tt
kiss the children. and he would come be
, hind the washstand screen and kiss me
too. And amt been kissed once in this
house."
That girl is still looking for place
We hope the Burlington ladies will not
all speak at once, washington Letter.