Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-16
Trrs GAnDEx HOSE.
rsse Total Deprayity of Illuminate
Things.

OF al playthings a garden hose is at
once the most fascinating and trying. 1t is
delightful to stand in a well-kept path and
throw the slender stream in waving spray
far out upon the lawn. 1t is delightful, on
a warm evening, to feel the cooling infiu-
ences Of this gentle shower, and to see how
gratefully the grass drinks in the moisture,
to smell the wholesome, earthly fragrance
which the soil gives back, and to feel that
on the morrow Natures labratory. stimu-
lated by the refreshing bath, viii work
wonders with the tender blades. This is
the sentiment, the poetry Of the pastime.
Let us turn to the facts. A friend, whose
lot it is to toll through the day, snd whose
good fortune it il to control the ten feet
square Of grass which adjoins his house,
left his business at a somewhat earlier
hour than usual yesterday afternoon. Tho
day had been hot, and he was filed with
that vernal enthusiasm which springs, if
not eternal, at least perennial in the hu-
man breast. After supper he started out
to view his estate. The hot sun had dried
and even baked the surface of the ground,
and he neutrality-suspicious. the wish was
liIBCf u tLt t1ltt5lt-tidt tHC q taSo
looked dry and thirsty. Why not try the
hose? He sought it cut, wrenching his
hand in the operation, secured it to the
faucet, opened the store-room window
where it lay, and pushed the END Of the
hose carefully through. His wife, who
had taken her seat at the open parlor win
dow, cautioned him not TO injure the
young plants, just as though it was not for
their especial benefit that the whole work
had been undertaken. Then he walked
round to the front Of the house, pulled the
hose through. and laid 1t out on the lawn,
being careful to leave the turn-cock in the
spout, or, az fremen call it. the "butt'
partially open. Then he returned to the
store-room, turned ON a full head Of water,
and was about starting for the lawn again,
when he witnessed the most remarkable
manifestation of inert matter that it ever
fell to the lot OF mortal to behold. The
hose squirmed, coiled upon itself, adj
vanced in long waves, returned, and final
ly came up on the porch with a snap, but
not until Il had produced a shrek in the
parlor, where the lady CT the house, who
was dressed up for the evening, received
an inyigorating shower bath at the open
window, and two little mes, who had
stolen from bed to view the operation from
the chamber window, were 'swet down in
their night gowns. or course, the place
was flooded. and it was not until our friend
had made his way to the faucet and shut
off the water, the vicious hose meanwhile
writhing in a very ecstacy Of fiendish JOY
and winding its muddy coils about his
legs, that the trouble ceased. The net re-
suit was a wet building, a new suit made
to look as though it had seen service
on a dozen fishing trips last year, a satur-
ated wood-pile, a puddled lawn, a bedrag-
gled and indignant wife, a pair Of fright
ened and thoroughly moistened children
III hope the poor things won't get the
diptheria from this ~foolishness," was the
wife's ~consoling remarkl, and a thorough
ly s~adaened, detected and dspirited citi-
zan. The hired girl does the sprinkiing
now.