New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-15
MILES WAY.

MILES WAY.
The American Rural Home.
'I'm just tired to DEATH"
"Poor child but when you're as old
as l be, you'll know that one can be
tired to death a. thousand times and
yet live"
II don't want to know it; I think
it's downright wicked for anybody to
get SO awful tiredv'
'"There's no other way that I know
of for housekeeper to do-special if
she's farmers wife-than to get fag-
ged out every day; that is, if she keeps
things as they ought to be. But am
terrible sorry foryou, Millie!- with
a broken ankle, an all the springs
work comm on. I don't know how
in the world you'll stand it!''
"Now, don't you worry, mamma
Lee. I'll stand all THAI needs to be
done, but amt going to do SO much
unnecessary work. Half have done
to-day could have been saved if we
only had things handy. l wish I'd
kept count Of the pals of water I've
lugged from that spring, and it might
just as we'll be in the kitchen, and a
waste pipe, too; and it shall be there!
It's time for reform, Isay!''
"Mercy me, child! how you do talk"
"Well, Pm going to talk till there's
q change. Tll,never wash again, for
one thing, till there's "a wire line in the
yard. Just see how nauch extra work
I had to-day because that old rope
broke; it let more'n "a dozen starched
pieces right down in the dirt. Ishould
have cried if l hadn't been 80 mad.
SO the very next time pa goes to the
village he's got to get q wire line"
Il don't believe he will, Mile. You
can ask
"'The1a he won't get MO clothes wash
ed by me. It's all nonsense for a wom-
:an to reach and strain and pull, to
get up q line every time there's wash
to hangup. We've done it enough!"
allow much do you s'pose a wire
costs2"
81 don't know; it don't make any
difference. They have got one to
Uncle Johns and lots of other con-
trivances to make work easy. I've
been there long enough to learn some
new ways and how to fix things up,
and mean to do it. You'll see!"
"But, child, you must remember
your pa amt so fore-handed as Uncle
JohGa. Is'pose he's rich
"Well, pa seems to be rich enough
to bmy some patent machines for his
own work, and it's time he bought
some for ours. All I ask is fair play"
'He says he's awful crampvd for
money since he bought them hill pas
ture lots. They amt all paid"
''Well, he didn't have to buy 'em,
did he9"
"He thought he needed 'enl- Don't
be castin' reflections on your father,
Mile, or talking uppish to him; that's
no good way to do!'
A few days later Mr.. Lee was pre-
pairing to go to the village. Mile
came osnt to put a jar OF butter in the
wagon, and said:
"Pa, I'd Like to have forty yards of
wire line"
Good land. child! What fora
wire fencee'
"No, for clothes; the wire can beput
across the end OF the yard and not be
in anybody's way. The old ones
wore out, and "a rope is no good, amy
how?"
II want ITO know! ropes hey been
FUSED ever sense I've been big enough to
tnotice. Want :a,new one?"
Eyes, a new wire one. Don't you
sget hemp now!"
z "Well, I'1-I1l see. II butter has
Butter amt otnothing to do with
1t, or eggs either. Don't you come
home without that wire!'
'"'Pears to nne you're a Gttin' q
Hectic bossey, Miss!''
swell, I've got to tbs, to get things
d@na!''
A.Mg stars aliwd"' said Mr.. Lee to
himself and his horse AS they logged
along. ''She's gittan to be reg'lar
fussar sense she come from Johns.
Beats ell though how the girl turns of
the work! I never see how she's
changed. She's turrilsle smart, but I'd
like for her to hav Endy easy ways
like her another. should hate to hev
a woman hound the hoase Iwas afear-
ed Of; I rely should! but guess meb-
be I better cit that ere wire, cause
Miles got such way with her that
if I shouldn't, don't rely know as I'd
kesr to 20 back. Strange how that
chia's comm up."
Bus Mr.. Lee bought only thirty-Gve
yards OF wire, for he was appalled, at
the price and then forty did seem out
Of ali reason.
"she won't know the difference" he
said to Maself, "she'll be SO tickled
to get it at ALL"
Milly was delighted. and thanked
him again and Rgain, and after sup.