Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-11


over 10 your house this Morning said
the grocery man 10 tie bad boy, as tie
youth WAS firing frozen potatoes AZ the
rnsn who collects garbage in the alley.
ID. they are searching for sewer pas
sns sGch things, and they have So,
plumbers and other society sxperts IN
you can't rest. and come away for fear
they would find the sewer gas and warm
my Iscket. Say. 90 y0a think il Is
right, when anything smells aw.nlly. TO
always lay il 20 boyr
Well, in nics cases Gu. of ten they
would his Is right, but what do yoa
think i the trouble over At your house.,
hoaests-
S-h h. Now don't breathe a word 10
living soai. ~ ara a dad BOY. You
see vas over To the dliry far ss tue
exposition building Saturday night, and
when they were breaking up. me and
my chum helped 20 carry boxes OF ehees.
and hrSias Of butter. and a casess nan
gave each OF Us piece OF Linablr ser
cheese, wrapp i N tIa-fol. Sardav
morning opsaei my piece AID j, M .de
me tired. Oh. il was the odaies, smell
ever heard %, except the sme.i wIel
they found tramp who hung himself
IN the woods on the Whiteish BAY rosd.
and he had bean dead three weeks. Ii
was Just like an old back number fun
eral. Pa and ma were Just getting
ready II 81 10 church, and | cut of
piece of cheese and put il in the inside
pocket OF pas vest, and ! put another in
the lining of mas muf, and they went
70 church. l went % church. too, and
sat on back seat wish my ch1ra ana
looked jest as pious as taoagh | was
taking up a collection. Tie church was
pretty warm, and by the time they GOT
up To sins the first hymn pas cheese be-
gan To smell . match against mas
cheese. Pa held one slde of thu hymn
book and ma the other, and pa hs nj.
ways sings for all that's out, and when
he hraced himself and sang, Just as |
am, ma thought pas volcs was tine
t1red With hiiliousness and she looked
at him and hlnchai him aui tod him
to stop singing and breathe through his
nose. cause his breath was enough to
step clock.
Ia stopped singing and turned /
around krud of cross towards ma. and /
then he ssneiied mas cheese. aud he |
turned his head around the other way /
and SAID "whewr and they didn't sing /
any more. bat they looked at each other |
As though they smel!ed frowy. Then I
they sat ~ far apart rs they could get, /
and pa sat next to woman who used l
to Ice nurse IN hospital, and when /
she smelied pas cheese she looked mt /
MIN rs though she thought be had the /
small pox, and she held her handker-
chief to her nose. The maa in the
9th. end of the pew, hat ma sat near,
he was stranger from Racine, who be-
longs TO our church. and he looked at
ma sor. of queer, and after tho minis
Ter prayed, and they got up 10 sing
again, the man took his ha; Gad wen;
,ut, and when he came 10y me be said
something to me IN whisper about a
female glue factory. Well. sir, before
he sermon was over, everybody in that
,hurch had their handserchiefs to their
hoses, and they looked at pa and ma
aud the two Ishers came
.rsund in the pews looking for dog,
md when the minister got over his SER
non and wiped the Precipitation off his
ace. ne said he would l,Ee TO have tue
rustees stay after meeting. as there
vas business of Importance to trans
Ics. He said the question of
proper ventilation and sewerage for the
,hurch would DO brought up, aud. he
resumed the congregation had noticed
his morning that the church WAS unus
tally full of sewer gas. He said he had
pokeu of the matter before, and ex-
scted ii would be attended to before
his. He said he was meek and hum
lie follower of the Lamb, and he was
Wiling to cast his 10. wherever the Mas
ar decided. but he would be blessed il
N, vunnl1 ~h oh IL l
hat smelied like bone burning estab-
ishment. He said religion was a good
hing, but no person could enjoy re-
igion go well in a fat rending establish
nent az hs could in flower garden,
md as far as he was concerned, he had
lad enough of it. Everybody looked ut
everybody else. and pa looked a. ma as
hough he knew where the sewer gas
,ame from, and ma looked at pa real
mad, and me and my chum lit out, and
went home and distributed my cheese
III around. l put slice in the album
IN the parlor table, and piece in the
library in book, and a piece in the
'oap dish. and piece in the bathroom,
md piece in the spare room under the
red, and a piece in mas bureau, under
Ter underciothes, and l went to the
lining loom and put some under the
able, and dropped a piece under the
.ange in the kitchen. | tell you the
house was loaded for beer. Ma came
home from church first, and when /
asked her where pa was, she said she
hoped he had gone to walk around a
block to air himself. Pa cams home to
Inner, and when he got smell of the
house he opened all the doors and win
lows, and ma put a comfortable around
ler shoulders and told "a he was dis
grace to civilization. She tried to GET
"a to drink some carbolic acid. Pa fin
lily convinced ma that it was not him,
md then they decided that it was the
house that smelled 50, rs we'll as tho
,hurch, and ON Sunday afternoon they
vent visiting, and this morning pa went
Town 70 the health office and got the
Inspector of nuisances to come up to the
aouse. and when he smelled around
'peil hs said there was dead rats in the
main sewer pipe, and they sent for
plumbers and ma went ont TO neigh
Dors to borrow some fresh air, and when
he plumbers began to dig up the floor
IN the basement came over here. IL
hey find any Of that limburger cheese
i will 90 hard with me. The hired
girls have both quit, and ma says she 10
going to break up keeping house and
board. That is Just into my hand.
want to board at a hotel, where you can |
have bill of fare and tooth picks, and |
and everything. Well. Rness
| will go over and stand in thu back |
door and listen to the mocking bird. II |
you see me come flying out Of the alley |
with my coat tail full of boots you can |
bet they have discovered the sewer gas"
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