The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1883-06-30
0ait and Yumtor,
The Corn Dentist and Plumber.

From PecE's .Sun
One of those mistakes that are liable to
occur in the best regulated families, made
quite laugh in West side residence
few days ago. The lady of the house had
been grumbling about corn on her foot,
for months, and her husband had tried in
vain to get her to consent to have regu-
larly ordained "corn dentist come up and
remove it, but she was afraid it would hurt,
and she was nervous about having horrld
man touch her bare foot, and she suffered
along until Tuesday, when in moment OF
agony she told the old man to send up his
corn dentist as quick as he had mind to.
He went down to his office and ordered the
corn man to 90 up. He had already Or
dered plumber to 90 to the house and
mend some gas fixtures that had sprung a
leak, and the plumber got there first. The
lady gave orders that if a man called with
some corn tools, to send him up to her
room The plumber rung the bell, and on
being asked where the work was to be done,
the girl told him to 90 up to the lady S
ROOM and the man went up. He had a
roll of cloth with tools in it, and as he put
it down on the floor to unroll the tools, the
lady took off her slipper, and removed her
stocking, and placing her foot on hassock.
She looked at the plumbers tools on the
floor, and almost tainted. There was big
pair of pincers, and two files, and lot Of
iron things that looked big enough to re-
move the corns from an elephant. The
man was sorting out the tools, and didn't
notice the woman's fright, until she asked
els this going to hurt much If it Is L
would rather suffer the annoyance"
90, no" said the man looking up at the
gas bracket by the window, which had a
rag wound around the joint which leaked.
II can screw the cap into the joint, so the
gas cannot escape" and seeing the woman's
bare foot so near him he opened his eyes
in wonder, and blushed like a girl. She
looked at him and wondered why he did
not 90 to work on her foot. He was
great, big, muscular fellow, and he looked
as little like the way she supposed corn
doctor would look as possible. Taking up
big pair of pinchers, and taking match,
to light small candle which he carried, to
test leaky gas fixtures, he said:
"Where does it seem to be the worst p
''There," says the little woman, bending
over and placing her finger on the next to
the little toe. Fright between those two
toes 1t is soft corn, and sometimes it
makes me wild Now, do be careful, wont
you, and theman dropped his pincers and
stood back as though he had been struck
by lightning. Then he laughed out loud,
and said:
MADAME, [ have been in the plumber
business twenty-five years, but this is the
first time | was ever called upon to repair
broken joint on woman's toe. Excuse
me-" and he began to roll up his tools.
Heavens and earth p said the woman,
as she tried to put on her stocking wrong
end first, and blushing so she looked as
pretty as though she never had a corn, Il
thought you was corn doctor. There is
the gas fixture you are to putty up, and
she went out of the room in her stocking
feet to blow up the hired girl for sending a
plumber to plum corn. The corn doctor
arrived soon, and did his work, and when
he and the plumber went out together they
were having great laugh as they turned
the corner When she tells her husband
to send up a man to do any work about the
house now, she stipulates that he shall not
send plumber, whatever he does.