The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-10-19
How a MenYAlngs y 'Oat Clothes.
ny KATE Tuoi,S.

BY KATE Tnoi;s.
Once in while there. is a man who
loves, yes loves to help hi. wife!
We honor MIN khen'we see him.
We wish him long life and freedom
from rheumatism, chilblains, and
We trusglise will never be talt:headed.
And We hope his wifes will love him
and cherish him as the apple of her eye,
and never ''pooii! pooh" at -iiim when
he complains Of. not feeling we'll, or
iancies he has got spell Of "that old
liver trouble" copipg,o on:
But at the same time, we cannot help
laughing at MIN when he hangs out the
weeks washing.
1t is always very cold weather when
man hangs out the clothes. he does it
to help his wi e, or because the snow
hutters under her dress and vets her
ankles and r5tes. herthe neuralgia. !.
it is lawful" good in him to do it; as
we said in the sbegnning.'. We admire
him for it, ana we hope We shall be for
given for laughing ut hls way of doing it.
He takes me basket under one arm
and tips 1t up on an angle OF Il little more
than torty.GA degrees, Everything if,
YOU have noticed, is always tipped at an
angie OF just. fSrty ve degrees when
anybody speaks of it,, and he takes the
clothes.pin basket in ttsolher hand and
trips down the back steps, whistling, to
show how.ttseyiSaHhe-is helRing ibis
wife, and he swings tae pin basket, and
out hop three or tour pins,. and scatter
in four different directions. He makes
a dying leap ior them and the clothes
basket loses idsGa&uce, fhd away goes
night.cap and q. 'bosomed" shirt, and
two towels info the mud. :;
His wife, who is watching him from
the window; and women always watch a
man on such occasions to keep him
straight with lheir valuable advice-she
yells oft to tliha' in tretlzs: A.,
Charles jenkins! What does rossess
in mt the mud! Tiiat'sjust lisS a nlsn!t
Nothing distraAs y wemaii ike having
the Washing get muddied. The burning
down.ef Earn, of the fete.h Of a favor
lite COW, would be nothing to it.: 1t is
something no woman we have ever seen
can bear with eQuanimity. =
The helpful tnan scrambled up the
wet dry gooas, an : chucks them into
the basket. X little dirt, more or less.
isn't much to the thinking OF man. IN
less it happens to be his CUTS OF shirt
bosom.
He reaches the cAine in triuthp1,, md
begins the business of hanging out with
vim. Hewants lis wife to see how ex-
pert he. isl. He wants to show her that
ho can do'I iustas neatly ana expedis
tiously as she. can. For there are verv
few monOro do not privately enteftaIff
woman's work little better than sthe
women themselves fthey only have a
He braces himself, for it is generally
icv under clotheslinc, puts three pins
in his mouth to have them handy, and
makes dive into<he basket. The first
Duts that on. a little cross. wise, and bins
It on. both sides, Then he gets oSt q
palr of drawers and holds them M,
considering which way they ought to 20.
Waistband up of course-t}lat is the way
they are worn, he argues, and he puts
them on and surveys them with intense
sA.!s:hain "chafEsin cries sbis watehful wife
from tie window, edo pull them d raw.
ers' legs down even! One of 'em is a
foot shorter thsHsthe other. Strange
that man don't know anything!'
He stands back. a night gown in one
hand, AlfdsH tasfe, cloth. iii the other,
and Ntttts-.to know what diherence"it
makesl~
Won't they. ..sfy jus, uY, as ], well T apRe lee
And then he gives the sho4est leg o
the garment vicious tsitch, and it has
frozen by this time, and istears US easily
rs paper, and off it comes just above the