The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1878-01-31
No Dust in Her Eyes.
breakfast Table.


"I have called" said the agent, sit
ting down with IN owlish kind of look,
upon the chair she had wiped off for him
with her apron, "to bring to your at
tention a work that is at the present
time eliciting more attention from the
thinking minds of both hemispheres
than anything the printing press has
sent forth in the last quarter of a CEN
tury."
@Bless my lifel" said the woman, 81
wouldn't a. b'lieved it'll what have you
got, anyhow"
: my dear madam" continued the
agent, as he proceeded to unwrap a
package done up in oil-silk, while the
children gathered around him with eyes
full of curiosity, and the woman left her
wash-tub and stood before him with
arms akimbo; " have a few fragments
of a feast for the intellect that you have
probably felt the need of many times"
"Indeed / have, sir. It's mighty hard
in these times for a woman with a tri-
fling, shiftless husband to keep the pot
boiling for six children, and many's the
time we all go hungry"
Greatly, madam, | fear you do not ex-
actly understand me-"
ooh, yes sir-you're talking, about
something to eat"
"No-no. Its mental food l refer to.
Something to strengthen and inyigorate
the expanding intellect"
81 guess we don't need any O. that
here" said the woman, poking down
the clothes to keep the suds from boiling
out over the stove. "Buti if you had a.
brought along a side O. bacon, or a peck
O. beans, they would a. been mighty ac-
ceptable, and even a small sack O. flour
wouldn't a. been sneezed at"
ayes, yes, my good woman" con-
tinued the agent, unabashed, Certainly,
those things are all we'll enough in their
way; but do you never feel the need of
something to stimulate the mind? some
thing to lift it far above the %groveling
pursuits of everyday life and make it
soar high beyond the cares Of"
els it come sort of a fying.machine
you've gotw
"No0no. I am selling an encyclo.
pedia in monthly parts"
"Mercy on usl And what good is the
machine till you get it all put together p
at is not a machine, my good woman,
it is a BOOK. A book, mum, that will
tell you all about everything under the
sum-"
"Tell me everythingf p and the woman
scratched her head, and boxed a young.
ster who was climbing up on the man.
lap.
"Exactly-that's what it will do, an6
never miss. It's q whole library il
tself."
well, then, I want to know WHERE
nv old man was all the blessed live
long night till three O'Clock this morn
ing, and where he got the money to buy
the whisky he got drunk on.-S-,
that, and if there's any pictures, let MI
see 'em," said the woman, beginning Il
feel an interest in the work.
You misunderstood me altogether
responded the agent, with an uncom
Portable air, 81 mean to say it will Civ
you information"
"Well, that's just what Pm after,
cut in the woman. "Give it to me
Where was the old soakerf"
It's not that kind of information
no book could give you that-but any
thing in the scientific or"
"Get out with yon-go to grass wit
your scientific nonsense-that amt wha
I'm workingm my fnger-endsofffor. VIVA
/ want is potatoes, coal, pork, flour, Q
something else to keep body and sou
together. So you might as well NOSE
on and try your luck somewhere elst
stranger; you We struckth the wrong house.
But, my dear woman, hear me ou'
This is a compendium"
"Go way with you. / don't care
its a Observation-Disclosures won
pay house-rent nor save SOAP"
"It's the quintessence of all huma
knowledge"
"That won't keep the children i
shoes and clothes, nor make a ma
swear off and stick to it."
can epitome Of"
"Clear out with you. 1t can't butte
a slice of bread, nor doctor up a sic
child. So you can just pack it up an
vamoose. I've got a two-weeks wash G
hand for Mrs. Hazlerig that's got to
done before a bite to eat comes into tn
house, and 1 amt got no time to stan
here listening to your high-soundir
CAB. There amt no dust in my eye
and you'd better climb if you kno
when it's healthy"
, He took the hint and departed.
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