The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1883-01-13
GOING TO KEEPING HOUSE.

talking over the news, when one of
them spoke of young fellow who
was married recently, and had gone
to keeping house, and the other one
said:
YES, l was up to his house last
week, and looked over the lay out.
He has got everything just rs nice
as can be, and ought to DC happy,
with such nice little wife. When
l saw the furniture, the carpets. and
everything just as complete as possi-
bic, ] compared the scenin my
mind, with the one of twenty years
ago, when my wife and ! went to
keeping house. 1 rented a little one
story house, with three small rooms.
My wife had feather bed and some
sheets and comfortables, and l
bought a Eastwood bedstead-one of
these kind where the Stats come
down the first night, and keep COM
ing down. got a straw tick filed
with hay, and after the Stats came
down We slept on the floor. 1t was
in December, and pledge you my
word the frost was half an inch thick
by the cracks in the floor, and when
got up in the morning to build a
fire ] just melted frost all over the
floor with my feet
Didn't you and your wife catch
cold!" asked the other man.
''Catch nothin' Why, we were
too healthy to catch cold. Honest,
the room was actually too warm.
The stove was the smallest cook
stove you ever saw, and when you
got a fire built you had to stand and
feed it just as you would baby. l
remember my father came to visit
me soon after, and how he laughed
when l brought in chunk 70 keep
up fire all night. The chunk was
about as big as your arm. That
first morning you ought to have seen
lis get breakfast. My wife was Il
little nervous about getting up and
dressing before me. You see she
had never been married any, and it
came on her sudden. So l went into
the pantry and broke the ice on the
pancake batter that she had fixed the
night before, and filled the little tea
kettle, and stubbed around there
barcfooted Oh the frost and gave her
show, and she jumped into few
things, and when came out by the
stove she was sitting. OH Il soap box
with her feet in the oven looking
things over. 10 tell the truth about
it, she looked little bit discouraged.
Well, you see, she went agin' her
folks wishes II marrying me, and she
might have had the son of man
WHO kept store-the one who bust
ed there where We lived about nine
teen years ago, and beat everybody
who lent him money. You remem-
Der him, Jim. His boy got to
gambling and they haven't heard
from him since he went to Arkansas.
Gosh! just think of it. Suppose
my wife had married him, she
wouldn't have had 40 such house as
she has got now. and all the money
she wanted. Well, we snugged
around the stove, and pretty soon
the tea kettle began to boil, and my
wife put Oh her shoes, and broke the
ice III the tin wash basin and washed
her hands and face, and as the sau.
sage began to fry she began to look
good natured, and didn't seen hall
so disguised with marrying, and
then the coffee began to smell sort
of sociablc, and the potatoes that
peeled got SO we could run II fork il
them and then she put on the pan
cakes, and We sat down to the table
She sat right by the stove where she
could turn the pancakes without get
ting up, and We cat and laughed
and / tell you never had mea
taste so good in my life.' have
eaten at Dclmonico's, and in Paris
Cafes, since, and have had every.
thing that white man ever'eat, bu
l never had meal taste as good a
that first breakfast did, when tn
little woman sat there by the stow
and turned them buckwhcat pan
cakes. Say, Jim, when you look a
my wife riding around in her car
riage, with her diamonds, and sea
skin, and everything she wants
looking kind OF toney, you wouldn'
think she ever knew how to tur
pancakes and fry sassiges, woul
you! Well she can beat 'cm all.
wouldn't Lave you tell her, but sh
can wrcstle M obstinate pancake
that wants to double up and run a
, over the griddle, and fetch it on
$ Drowned on both sides, looking a