South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-05-08
A Domestic Experiment.

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finely
Indeed = said his wife, absently.
sAnd if there isn't any fall in the
price OF frult,' he ADDED, .our peach
orchard is going TO net us a C, oil hun.
dred dollars
AS he spoke, he flung the home
spun towel with hich he had been
wiping his hands over the back of a
kitchen chair.
oh. George, do haLg up the towel
said Mrs. White. The nail is Just az
near as the chair back. and / have
enough steps to take in the course of
the day, without waiting upon YOU
You are always grLmbling about
something said tho young farmer,
as he jerked the towel on its nail.
There! Does that suit you p
Heres lettor from { ousin Dora,
George eaid Mrs. White. wisely a
voiding the mooted question. She
wants to come here and board for a
few weeks
We'll, lot her come, said Mr.. White.
lit won't cost as great deal, aud q
little extra money always counts up
at the years end
But. George. was thinking
About whati'
why, l am SO hurried with the
work, and there ia 60 much to do
That is the perpetual burden of
your song said Mr.. White irrita.
bly,. Women do beat all for complain &.
mgr
Won't you hear me out 2 said Mrs.
White. so thought it would be n
good plan to give her her board. It
she would. hc p me with the homework
little. 1t will accommodate me-
But 1t won accommodate me =
said lie, cavalierly. Really, Lefty,
You are getting absolutely lazy.'
Mrs. White crimsoned
Nobody ever said that of me be.
FORE she said.
But. jest look at it, said the far
mer. Tell Inc of any other woman
in the neighborhc cd who keeps girl {!
Why they make boas, of doing their
own work.
They all have sisters or mothers or
grown daughters; | have uone'
'Pshaw!' said Mr. White. Ride.
nlous Of course you have to work.
We all do, don't wep But YOUR work
don't amount to row of pins. I
don't know OF anyone who has it ca
sier than you do
That is all you know about il >
SAID Lefty, In u chOked voice.
write TO Dora that we'll board her
Tor five dollars week. said White,
authoritative,y. We must make all
the money we can while there is
chance. Make hay while the sun
shines, Ell ? And guess you'll man
age 10 get along as well as other wo-
men do. Lettie. Now run ~ stairs
into the garrett and get my blue jean
overaIls, there's good giflr
Lefty oDeyed. but the tears were in
her eyes, and IL big, round ball Was
rising up IN her throat. and she could
hardly see the jean overalls as they
hung up high on one of the beams.
As she reached up, a loose board in
the floor tripped her; her foot slipped
through the laths and plaster below,
and with groan che sank To the floor.
The time passed on, and George
" bite grew tired of waiting.
Look alive. there, Lefty! Do you
mean TO be all day p
But no aLswer came. lie ran up
stairs to find Lefty lying senseless OH
the floor, with one leg broken just o.
bove the ankle.
Now you'll have to get some one
10 do he work. said Lefty, not with.
out spice o. malice, as she lay on
the caIico-coyered settee with her poor
ankle duly set and bandaged.
Not it | know it,, said George
Hire a lazy woman who'll want a
dollar and n half q week, and board
into the bargain, to do tho work of
this house ? I guess notr
But what are you going 10 do ~
asked Lefty.
To do it myself, to be sure. Half
an hour every morning and half an
hour every evening ought 10 be O.
nongh TO square accounts.
Well, said Bettie, | shall inst like
to zee you do IL. Then you'll have
Jour wish, said her husband.
He rose early next morning and
lighted the kitchen fire.
Pshaw said he, as he piled on the
sticks Of wood, what does a woman's
work amount to anyhow what's
the next lesson now, Lettie?
alwai skim the cream and strain
the milk, said Lefty, who, bolstered
up on tho lounge, was combing her
hair with more delibsration than she
had practiced for "a year.
Well, here goes then, 9. id George
Aad a period Of silence eusued.
Presently he shouted: | haven't
got milk pans enough
'Of course YOU haven'tl" said Let
ty. You must scald out yesterdays.
on know you said you couldn't set
up a tin SHOP when | asked you for a
dozen more last month";
They smell like fat boiling fac