The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-02


housekeeping must be done? was wonder
ing the other day when you were going to
begin"
But last year you raised such a fuss"
Cant remember that 1 said one single
word If did it was only in fun"
"And l may cleanT'
Not only that, but I'll help"
But you needn't. You just be patent and
put up with the muss for few days and III
GET
las l said, l will help, Mrs. Bowser 1t
viii be a sort of vacation for me- Don't you
worry about my finding any FAULT
1t was with fear and trembling that l saw
him put on an old suit of clothes next morn
ing and heard him say:
I'm begin on the parlor first. It's now Q
o'clock. We ought to be through with the
whole house in two hoursn
lin afraid we are not so smart as that.
We must go slow and give the house a thor
ough going over"
''Oh, wen have everything shining like
new pin before we let up. You boss and I'll
do the work. You know, of course, that
there is everything in the planning. Some
folks make a whole weeks job Of houseclean-
ing simply because they don't know how to
plan. Mother and used to clean house in
half an hour, and you know how particular
she is"
After breakfast the cook came in and said
she was ready, and she likewise announced
that the two colored women were in waiting.
Waiting for what7" asked Mr. Bowser.
ITO help us Clean" replied.
Send them right home Five of us to
clean housed Who ever heard of the hke
Do you want the neighbors to think we have
been shoveling dirt into the house all sum
rnerl I'll start those colored women for
home, and don't want any help from the
cook. Let her attend to affairs in the
kitchen"
He went out and ''startedn the two women
had had engaged for six weeks, and then
returned with the announcement that he was
ready to start in on the spare bedroom, hav
ing already taken down the curtains and re-
moved the bedding.
"All right-I'l have it done in five min
rbes!" he replied, as he spit on his hands.
You clear out and give me room to work.
I think can give You and ali other women
pointer on house cleaning
went down stairs, and it wasn't over
s.Ven minutes before he called to me:
~All right, Mrs. BowSer-your room is
LIGdutls OOLllc up All4 SA1OW Allb WIFI " OO
uext."
What have you doneG' asked, as found
him seated on the window sill with COM
placent smile on his face.
Cleaned the room. Every picture has
been taken down and busted, the bedstead
wiped off, and have swept the carpet Your
three or four women would have been two
days accomplishing the same task 1 have
-. -, IL
Mrs. Bowser, it is all in the planning
''But that bedstead must come down, Mr..
Bowser"
WHAT forT'
Because the carpet must come up Every
thing must be moved out Of the room and the
door cleaned
well should like to know what fort
What's the matter with this room Just as
1t isg1
''Dust, Mr. Bowser. It blows and we can't
help it. Moths get in now and then. If we
don't do our work thoroughly we might as
well let it go entirely. Take the bedstead
down first"
''I'll take it down, but l protest. It's all
bosh hunting out every Speck of dust No
one else does it. Get out Of the wayl"
He made q grab for the springs and lifted
them out, but in getting them clear of the
rail he fell over backwards aud the springs
fell upon h;::l. He madeu of several Wig
orous Explanations, kicked out in an effort to
demolish them, and as [ assisted him to get
up be roared:
81 told you that these things ought to be
left alonel The fool who invented them
never intended they should be movedI"
Gained him down after a bit and then
asked him to take down the bedstead He
grabbed the footboard and gave pull.
Then he grabbed the headbOard and gave
wrench.
''NIr. Bowser, don't you know how to take
= bedstead apartl" asked
Don't IF' Well, if don't no one else
does! was taking bedsteads apart ten years
before You were borni You always have to
loosen the joints bit Now them
"But you don't bear down on the rail You
must lift up at the ends,"
II think l know my business, Mrs, Bowser,"
he replied as he worked away.
''But you don't You are locking the rails
instead Of loosening them. See here"
! pulled at the end of rail and unlocked
It. Mr.. Bowser backed off, crossed his hands
on the small of his back and said:
MRS. Bowser, that settles it clearly see
your object We viii have no more house
cleaning this fall see what it would lead
to. When a wife gets tee idea that she
knows moro than her husband it is time to
hoist the dango- signal Just drop things
right here That is, unless you have planned
to bring about this very thing to force
legal separation"
He dressed and went OF down town. De
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