The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1882-01-06

hSunoSS goulhtuKD Jilo uafLnOny, nc phlnb-
ed them. '
"By glory ~ thought my father,
greatly delighted with the marvellous
change he had created, :" il hero isn't
n whole sunrise in u box. What little
paint will do if well laid on, and of the
right color / shall like to live
in this room. Neat, cheerful, uniform
and splendid at the same time. / must
paint the floor over again to hide my
tracks; but let me see this time If 1 have
finished up everything else first. No. l
have not. These kitchen chairs and ta-
bles all want painting badly. / wonder
hadn't thought Of them FIRST. But they
most certainly shan't be neglected as
long as l have so much paint and Of such
a color, too. What thing is the sim
pie article OF paint What tailor is TO ]
man painter is to house; but peo-
pie don't seem to know it. Even have
Just found it out. / should think man
might make fortune il he went about
with paint pot and brushes and adopted
my idea and astonished folks with the
change it makes. Worse conceptions
than this have been patented, and the
accident Of happYi thought enables
many to roll in riches ana immortal
clover" at
After due rest between jobs as he pro
ceeded, my dear father gave the tables
and chairs touch of his quality, and
for a while he was in doubt whether the
last job was not an immense improve
ment on the preceding ones.
He stood off and examined, and then
shut his eyes and imagined.
"No," he concluded, "neither can
claim Ilrecedence. Each is admirable
In itself, and yet each il necessary TO
the other, to give It complete effect |
wonder what kind Of an artist should
have made. 1t strikes me have vastly
more taste than ! thought, and think
I should be distinguished for what they
call coloring. But am / done yet
There is more paint left. wish this
kitchen was twice as big. / don't feel
quite satisfied yet. Isn't there some
| thing more to make the beauty still
more beautiful, and the harmony more
harmoniousP There is I have it. /
see there is. Why, bless me | haven't
begun to be done yet. Why not paint
| ali the wooden utensils which belong to
kitchen use? I'll do it, if / have to
| send for more paint. How thought ex-
/ pands by exercise. At first thougnt
i only of the floor and now, pooh 1t Is
| the last and least of my thoughts; but
| thank the floor for lealing to these
ideas" i4a4
| In this happy mood my father re-
| sumed his decorative work on wood, and
engaged himself bnsily for several days,
during which he was obliged to send for
even more paint than he had bought at
/ first, to enable his busy brush to adorn
baskets, kuife-tray, bread-trouph spice
mortar, rolling-pin, dough-stick, salt
box wash, ironing and knife boards
clothes-horse, sleeve-board, pals, buck
cts. barrels, kegs, firkins, tubs, benches,
brooms and brushes and after whatever
else could be painted without being
rendered unfit for use had been painted
he concluded to finish off by reddenint
the whole store-room, from which mos
of them had been drawn.
"Ihave done enoughalready," though
my father, "to make my wife thankful
but then 1 have great deal moro pain
on hand, and I can see plainly that mucl
remains to be done. Now, why notpain
the outside Of the rear Of the i OF tn
| house, where the kitchen Is, as high u
as the caves, to correspond r VI.
This he did, and then thought the lol
would look like patchwork. unless a.
the outside Of the Il were given th
same hue. And this, too, he did, an
having included the L roof and chm ehinnaa
ney, he then, added the rear porch, 4
roof and railing, and admitted that "a
liberality was not TO be repented, bt
. would not be q complete, symmetrlci
triumph unless assisted by the paintln
( Of the house, embracing in grand re
J surn-total, roofs, chimneys, spouts, wall
90 doors, poi ticos, ratings, pillars, windo
2 frames and trellises.
> And all these, also, he did with h
2 own hand, his red right hand, for 1t ms
q be readily imagined that his. hnnd cou
Q not have been very much of any 9th
q color. immersed as he was IN such
Q wholesale work, and my fathers dial
q itself states that sometimes he felt
p tired. and the paint stuck 80, and the
,. was 90 much yet to be done, he did n
% think it necessaryito clean the paint fro
1t his hands at .thsl close of the day, b
slept In them as they were, often dreai
n in9 that he was q white man with II
3 hogany hands, the color seeming to ha
II impregnated the very essence Of !
y | being. .aiaudollaG iies.&l .r3. z
NJ Occasionally II am inclined to dou
le my own Judgment, or should not be
TO tate to declare that my father seems
on have been somewhat odd in this perf
ne tent fancy forred paint, but, in order
ke remove The possibility Of sileh an idea
lot others, / win simply state that his p
M ceedings were perfectly natural throuI
TO ont fif5 SNf NaifniG rnI
his He was very affectionate man,
vas the absence Of his wife, in search OF q
i'd, elty. led him. at tlie outset TO plan
Dor kitchen part Of his surprise. TO make
ler for any .shortcomings pon his part,
in giving her an excess Of pleasure wi
md she returned nThistat once removes
n kitchen work from'ail suspicion OF SIN
,at ad And now. as 10 the, excess Of
ing which followed. My father had q
ZEN written her a letter, hoping she was