The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-04-13
The Eorgetful Husband.

''Oh, dear, what shall do? The hoop
has burst off my wash-tub, and my suds
are all over the tloor!" said Mrs Alden III
tone of dependency to her husband, as
he came to wash his hands in tho sink after
oihng his new horse rake.
"Fhat is bad, Julia. You will have to
let your washing go until tomorrow; then
you can borrow Mrs. Scllon's tub"
''But this will all fall to pieces if it
stands, and we are expecting company to-
morrow"
e'I Cunt help 1t; I can't stop the work to-
go of with it now You must make hay
while the sun shines, if you make it at all.
Can't you tic il up so that it will do for to-
day2 should think that you might"
'Pcrbaps so, if you will help me- But
what can take2"
ooh, anything for this time; but really,
ought not to stop minute. Where is
the clothcs-lnc2"
"rhc colored clothes are Oh it to day."
! "Hany them on the fence, and let me
have the line quickly"
Mrs. Alden went out and moved her
clothes and took the line down, while Mr..
Alden stood in the door and whistlcd i'm
patiently.
'Do mop up this water, Julia. How can
you stand such puddle? There, I forgot
to get you Aop- handle, bus you can make
the OLD one do to-day, can't you?"
'I suppose shall have to. You pro-
missed TO get me one three weeks ago, when
you broke this.",
81 know did, but never think of it
a man has so many things to sec to- There
that will do this week; ii doesn't leak much.
l don't see what made 1t break"
Nl,ol &,l
done good service; it has been in use fifteen
years."
"There, confound It'll what did YOU leave
that wash-bCard there for2 I have broken
1T to pieces"
cit IS worn out and rotton. wish you
would get nc new one. | can never tink-
CT it up again"
Grub your clothes with your hands; nv
mother always did, and size never had a
wash-board in her lifc."'
Alden marched Off to the hay.flc before
heanct with another catastrophe to take up
his time.
lie was hardly out of sight before tin
pcddlcr's cart stopped at the door, contain
ing collection Of all articles used in a
family, from wash tubs down to brooms,
mops and pins.
"Anything in the way Of trade to-day,
Mrs. Aldcn2' asked the man.
mo, l think not. My husband does
not like to have nc buy of pcddIcrs. He
says | always get cheated"
| "11avc you Vt as good right to have
suitable apparatus to work with as he has2
lie has new oSscrake and hay -trcatlcr,
and hia wife is washing in u tue tied up
| with rope, and a wash-board that looks
as if Noah's wife Ia brought it out of the
ark, as q leaky water pail; and dippcr
| without handle, broken mop handle
bless me, Mrs. Alden! What is the usc2
| You had more money when you married
than nc had, and ] would have tools TO
| work with that were comfortable, to saw
the least. lie never stops to think what a
thing costs II 1t will make his work custer.
1t tires you more to get along with these
things than it docs to do your work."
Mrs. Alden sat down and looked the pro-
pcrty over. II was ridiculous to get along
this way. The pctldler was right; she had
moro money than her husband when they
started life, and she had worked harder
than ever he had. She had managed every
way to get along, and he never seemed to
think that she needed anything new or con-
| vcnicnt. Her setting out was almost worn
out, and nothing was ever replaced. "You
must make 1t do; it costs everything to
live!" and so she had dragged along, year
after year, and things wore out and were
not replaced. A big lump rose in her
throat rs she sat there thinking.
"What DO you ask Tor q wash-tub2' she
inquired at length.
"Two dollars for the large one; q dollar
and a quarter for the next size. Mop
handles for quarter; wash-boards for q
quarler, dppers twenty cents, broom thirty
cents"
], 'Hapdm down two wash-tubs, If you