The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-12
WOMAN'S PATIENCE:
Mrs. Sweetbricr's Tinkering Efiorts-In-
valuable Testimony to Female Persever.
snce and Equanimity of Mind.

Mrs. sweetbrier's TinkerIng Enorts-In-
valuable Testimony to Female Persever.
ance and Equanimity of Mind.
'My dear said Mrs. Sweetbrier to
her husband at the breakfast table the
other morning, 1.-THE water tank to the
cook stove needs fixing; it leaks
Something always leaks grufily
responded Sweetbrier. "Well, why
don't you mend it?''
me mend it, dear, how can -" said
meek Mrs. S.
with your mending stuff. of course,
didn't you buy some wonderful solder
Of peddler the other morning. that
needed nothing to 90 with it but hole?'
Sweetbrier answered sarcastically,
seenting request for him to take
the tank to a tin-shop.
"Well-but"-g gently acknowledged
the lady, THAT was for mending such
little holes as come in tin basins and
pans; not for copper vessels.
'1f you've any gumption at oil you
can mend anything with it. What 5
the use of buying things if you can't
use 'em? It's easy enough, could do
il in two minutes. just hold il on er a
lamp fame till it S warm, then stick on
the solder
"Well," sighed Mrs. S., "I'll ;ry,
but think it will be pretty heavy to
hold up over lamp with one hand
while the other is busy soldering. You
know the article mended wants to be
hot. ~
Hot nothingln returns SweetbI Ter,
''you can do it in five minutes; and
don't forget to scrape the spot rirst to
get it clean" With this parting bit OF
advice he put on his coat and went
down town.
After doing the household ''must-be-
dones,n Mrs. S. got her materials all
ready and started bravely in. Seeing
that the tank would stand no show OF
becoming hot enough over a lamp, she
tried getting the poker-that favorite
utensil of woman-red hot, and applied
it to the spot to heat it up, first having
dug out the hole with pin, and fad
ing the seam at the edge of the tank
was opened little. Making no head
way with the poker, she had recourse
to live coal, and after numerous mar
row escapes of finger and table from
burning. she found the place hot
enough and began to rub over it n
stick of solder about an eighth of an
inch thick and four inches long.
Repeated trials by pouring water in
the tank showed only dismal failure.
A happy thought struck her; why not
mend the thing ON the inside with
putty, letting it dry on. Action fol-
lowed thought, and she hunted out a
hunk of old, hard putty left from the
last fixing" of the window, and pro-
| oeeded with the hammer to knock off a
piece. Seeking her machine-oil can
she oiled up, working it in with the
hammer. As soon as it was soft enough
she plastered the corner for two inches
each way, on the inside. With sigh of
relief and a prayer for the success of
the job, she put the tank on the back
of the stove to dry.
AT dinner Sweetbrier casually re-
marked ''Did you fix the tankP"
81 did, or think l did answered
Mrs. S., without any enthusiasm and
with a secret hope that he would let il
alone till she saw if it would hold
water
But before she left the table Sweet
himself tnrping if around tin he snied
tba solder
Inst ike woman-wept of II
t,otber end to Didn,+ Won tnou
I enourh 70 mt tho colder ~, t,o irsido o.,
ana after lnocI,ine, II of Nth lie Lift
he held tbe tank to the lioht to find the
hole. sWhat's This stuck in bere2,'
he exclaimed maxine n dive at the
nuttv
offs NIFTY dear " said Mrs 8 in q
conciliatorv tone now that ali had bean
found ont - ''''' -
aWeH we'll >, snitfed swootbrior
..vyoman are terriblv foolish about some
tbinos,,' diccino fbe offending spb.
stance off 7.Now it's inst as easv II
fix This thing as can he. if Won only orc
about if riobt. inst scrape evervihino
off clean aud mt vour solder ;ns;de
some foIks dopit knoyy much anvbov .
he sniffed again nntting tba tanir down
on the fioor nrettv hard
Silently Mrs ( and the LITTLE SIS
lootod aronnd Fron, axnar;ano Ne sbe
knew that when her other half was in
that trim the less said the better and
she only ventured the remark that tbere
was no GOOD wav of heating tbe thing
"Sat + on ton 81 tho stoye or mt :,
nm tha crate fro y snanned Swea+b
as he MT off AGAIN Dc n,o u. M ir
s bnctied 70 and tbis t;,no d n =
to sdo or 5ie ), She did stioL tbe
corner of the tank on the briabt CRATE
Goals revealing strosk Of 1inbf Of
tbronab and Found tba oornor Pr
after niece of her 'l nrec;ons soide,
melted awav rnn;na tbro ou tbe onan,
;no ard ~, - +ha oaals ~ hoarth ft IN