The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-08-03
Upon the Laiy's Mind.

Thelc Is ono thing that there should be O
law passed about, and that is these glass
fruit jars with top that screws on. Ii
should be made criminal offence, punish
able with death or banishment to Chicago,
for person to manufacture fruit jar with
a top that screws on. Those jars look nice
when the fruit is put up in them, anu the
housewife feels as though she was repaid
for all her Precipitation over a hot stove, az
she looks at the glass jars of different ber-
ries on the shelf In the cellar. The trouble
does not begin until she has company, and
decides to tap a little Of her choice fruit.
After the supper is well under way, she
tells the servant to unscrew tho jar and pour
the fruit into dish. The girl brings it
into the kitchen and proceeds to unscrew
the top. She works gently at first, thon
gets mad, wrenches at 1t, sprains her wrist,
and begins to cry with her nose on the
under side of her apron, and skins her nose
on the dried pancake batter that is hidden
In the folds OF the apron. Then the little
smilingly, and says she will show the girl
how to take off the top. She sits down on
the woOd-box, takes the glass jar between
But the cover does not twist. The cover
seems to feel Us though it was placed there
to keep guard over that fruit, and it Is as
unmoveble Us the Egyptian pyramids. The
little lady works until she is red in the
face, and until her crlmps all come down.
and then she sets it away to wait for the
Old man to come home. He comes in tired,
disgusted, and mad as a hornet, aud when
the case is laid before him, he goes out in
the kitchen, pulls off his coat, and takes
up the jar. lie remarks that he is at loss
to know what women are made for, any
way. He says that they arc all right to sit
around aud DO crochet work, but when
strategy, brain and muscle are required
then they can't get along without man.
lie tries to unscrew the cover, and his
thumb slips OF and knocks the skin of the
knucklc. lie breathes silent prayer and
calls for the Kerosene can and pours little
oil in the crevice and lets it soak, aud then
he tries again and 'swcars audibly. Then
he calls for tack hammer and taps the
cover "ently on one side, the glass jar
breaks, and the juice runs down his trousers
leg, Oh the table and all around Enough
OF the fruit IS saved for supper, and the old
man goes up the back stairs to tic his thumb
mp III rag and change his pants. All come
to the table smiling, as though nothing had
happened, and the housewife don't allow
any Of the FAMILY to have any sauce for fear
OF getting broken glass in their slomachs,
but the company" are provided for gener-
ously, and all would Dc well only for re-
mark OF little boy who, when asked if Ac
will have some more of the sauce, says che
don't want 10 strawberries picked In lsero-
sene." The smiling little hostess steals Il
smell OF the sauce while they are discussing
politics, and believes she docs smell kero-
senc, and she looks ut the old man kind Of
spunky, then glances ut the rag Oh his
thumb and asks if there Is no lniment in
the house. The preserving Of fruit IN glass
jars Is broken up in that house, and four
dozen jars down in the cellar are to lay
upon the lady's mind till she can get u
chance to send them to charity picnic.
The glass jar fruit-can business is played
out, unless u scheme can be invented to
get the top off.