The Delta independent., 1889-10-01
po,No MEMS JOBS.

II is always interesting to SEQ how o
woman does q mans work.
There is slat on tho garden fence.
and the woman who owns the fence
thinks that she will fix it. She gets q
hammer, and a saw, and some nails,
and some old gloves, and fastens up
the house, for fear tramp may come
up the street anu down the street to
climbs bravely over the wall, and
catches her skirt on q sharp rock, and
pulls down half hundred stones after
her. and springs to avoid them. She
steps on stick, and thinks IL is q
snake, and screams. and scares tho
hens half to death, and some Of them
run under the wood-shed. and some OF
them fly up on the roof OF the barn,
and some Of them scoot over the fence
into Johnson's yard. Johnson's dog
pulls out their tail feathers, and a
feud springs up between the two fami-
lies which will extend to the third and
fourth generations OF the tribe.
The woman gets the paling in posi-
tion, and holds it at the bottom with
her knee while she nails it ut the top.
Any fool can drive nail! Why, OF
course. She lifts the hammer and
strikes with o will. The nail turns
dextrously to one side, to avoid tho
blow, and the woman's thumb-nail
turns black, because it was In the way
when the hammer fell, and because she
didn't happen TO take it out OF tho way.
She has to go back to the house to
get some arnica and some camphor,
and by the time they have been ap-
piled. and that thumb has stopped ach-
ing, the tin peddler calls, and wants to
give her five cents for the rags she has
been industriously saving for year.
and which she has felt all along it was
such an economical thing to do.
BY the time the peddler has gone.
the minister calls to talk with her
about mission work In China, and by
the time he has departed there is boy
to sell blueberries, and u woman with
the History OF the Johnstown Hor-
ror," and by that time it is noon.
After dinner the woman starts out
once moro 10 fix that paling. Sho
takes some more nails. and feels de-
termined to conquer. She pounds and
pounds, and tho nails all go In skew
ing and break of, and at last the ham,
mer flies of from tho handle. md H.
takes half an hour TO put 1t on again,
and all tho nails she has brought with
her to wedge II in place.
Then she applies herself to business
once more, and attacks the paling with
renewed vigor. She nails It this time,
and stands back TO survey her work.
Somehow it doesn't look just right and
she discovers that she has put 1t on
wrong end up. She will take IL of.
That Is easier said than done. When
woman does thing she does 1t TO
stay done, and before she can get all
these broken. and crooked. and skewed
nails ont. the paling is split into kind
ling wood, and the rails TO which it is
nailed look as II thoy hnd been SUBJ
jcctedSto fusillade from q gattling
gun.
And rs the last nall gives way before
her frantic endeavors, she lets go, or
rather tho paling let's go. so suddenly
that sho loses her balance and falls
backward into the ditch which some
enterprising dcvotcc OF thorough drain
age has excavated, and she wrenchcs
her back. and tears her dress. and vets
both OF her feet, and crushcs her hat,
and scrambles out, just rs Mrs. Jones,
with whom she is Mt swords points.
rides by with company from the city.
and laughs Mt her predicament
Then that woman is mad. and che
sticks n piece OF wood In that fence,
and she. VOWS It may stay there. for
what she cares. till tho cE1clt OF doom.
Then sne gathers up her tools and goes
home. Next time when there is
fence TO be mended, she will givc the
carpenter half II dollar for an hours
work, and feel that she is saving mon
ey.--Kate Thorn in New York Weekly.