The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-28
Mr.. eowsER.s WRATH.


Mrs. Rnw ser's version I'm The ID~troit Free Press.
One day I saw Mr.. Bowscr stop i'm front
of the house aud give IL n careful looking
over. and when he came in j asked:
"You are not thinking Of making amy
repairs. arc your
"well, NOT exactly repairs, but I was
just thinking that ! could make n great
Improvement"
"How ."
..The paint hasn't held it's color, and !
think I shall have tho house gone over
~again-jnst IA light coat. you know"
MIR. Bowser, this hOise was paintssl
only six months auo. Al that time we had
half a dozen mcu around here FOR nearly
"a MONTH"
"Ycs. hut the color has faded"
"Didnt ] warn you at the time that II
would fade: And ditn't cvcrybody langh
mt the idea OF you putting pea green On N
brick house:
mo. ma'am. they didn't! Everybody
coinplimentcd my taste. I've had asiozen
people az cultivation and taste tell me
thai IL WAS perfect harmony. and that
there was nothing in town IA match IL.
But il is just like you. Whenever I desire
to make AN Improvement you are the drag
on me-"
..But let il q, until spring. anyhow"
Mrs. Browser, did you ever hear the
word economy p"
"Nes, SIR"
III you evidently do not understand
what il means. IL means. i'm "a broad
sct,ss. to sell where yo'i can sell the high
est and bny where you can bny the cheap
est. The painting season is about closed.
lots of men are out of work, and I can get
this hoIss. painted now $40 cheaper than
next spring. Isn't $40 worth s~aving"'
"Ycs. but the house doesn't need it,"
"Not iu your Judgment, perhaps. People
who wcr. brought up in log house. in the
country have tastes peculiarly their own.
The n house. will bc painted"
He crossed his hands undcr his COAT
tails. paced mp and down the sit~ting,roo,n.
AMI dropped the subject. Two days later
four or five harl-Iookinx fellows with
paint on their clothes came up and looked
the outside of the house over. At brief
intervals they consulted together and
made figures on the back gate. Al other
brief intervals they measured the width
and length of tho house with u tape line.
After three hours hard work they came
went out to tho barn to rest their tired
brains aud wait for Mr.. Bowser to APP
pear. Mh',i he came home he CONTAINED
figures on the back gate and finally told
them tai go ahead.
They. won't make the least ninss
around" he said as he come i'm. "ThcyNn
skin right over in about two days, and
yn,,Il hardly know they have been here
Ii was useless tn say anything after the
bargain had been made, and so | held my
tongue. Next morning "a wagon came
four ster-ladliers. four pals. and so many
rams aud brushes that ] got tired of count
ing them. ! rx,..c,ra to see fn,'y 10 paint,
got lost on their way up. The five were
enough, however, tn take possession of
the barn, the kitchen and the hasemcnt.
"LoukS as IL they wouldn't la over "a day
aud a half" said MIR. Bowser as he started
OF down town.
1t looked to- me as IL they meant to- take
n whole week for il, and I went out to in
tervicw the boss ON tho subject. He did
pun down some more figures on the back
gate. counted his long and short ladders
over, aud finally replied:
~ did say two weeks at first. ma'am.
but IL the weather holds good I think
lively. days will Sc the last Of it,"
.Not over thirteen. anyhow"
Are you doing this by the job"
take ;,hs . nj r M, ,,.m tnr,,',h and . ..r..n,
folks in the most horrible manner hut
we don,t. We work by h day and do
Then hogan "a circus which lasted just
seventeen days without a; change Of pro-
s1.. lm,a%mc Ets ,3 i na,..er ,S %em wallis hew vi into ~"
house. The. were gone just half am hour.
When they r~eappearcd they inspected the
"a long hour. Then they came ont and
managed tn raise IL ladder against the
sib;y OF a ~: h rn;s::, i a% might G%s,
the forenoon. but one OF them
f~ortunatcly observed that the tlrs, ladder
consultation, aud the add was taken
down and inspected. by "a vote Of three
was loose. Then the five put in just an
hour aud n half hunting for hammer and
nails. gluc-pots. wedges. jack
screws. pile-airivCrs aud other articles
deemed necessary To make repairs. When
Mr.. Bpwscr came home to- dinner not "a
thing had boon lone in the way Of paint
ing. ] complained of this. but hc re-
piled:
"Ol. give them "A show. They have got
to get ready. When once they start they
will move like "a cyclone"
"Why did yoI hire them 10y the day
ITO get good work"
"During the afternoon the painters
raised n second ladder, mixed about a gal
Ion of color. drank four pints Of Mr.. Bow
scr's bottled beer, and carefully inspected
and gave each other their individual
opinions on the age and nationality of the
kitchen girl.
"Half am hour before Mr.. Bowser came
home one of them carefully aud cautious
~ assembled "a ladder, painted u portion OF
a bracket and came down and went over
ON the back street to see how il cooked
The others went owe to help him and
none of them were seen again that after
moon.
"Tlc second day was hut a slight inn
proveInent on the first, and il was four
days before one could see that any work
had been done. Then Mr.. Bowser con-
cluded that he didn't like the color. and
he had il changed. He was earnestly AL
viscd tai do this 10y the painters. who said
the color they had been putting ON was
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