Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-10
BORROU-ERs.
by KATE THORN.

urally ask all kinds of questions. You
will want to know if the drainage is
GOOD. if the air is pure, If there has
aver been malaria, how far it is to the
depot and postotfice; but ten to one you
don't inquire if there are any borrowers
in the neighborhood ....
Now, chronic borrower is deadly
nuisance in community. A woman
who is always "just out" OF saleratus
will stir up more trouble in neighbor-
hood than mad dog, and flock Of
fifteen hens, and rooster.
She will run in on you at any and all
hours, and want to borrow just little
sugar, or spice, till she can send to the
grocers. She really did not know she
was anywhere near out, till she went
about her cooking, AMI then she found
that she hadn't a dust of sugar in the
house, and not soul around anywhere
that she could send out after any!
And she will tell you that she does so
hate to trouble you; for if there is any
thing on earth that she dislilses to do, it
is to torrow-and she never does it
when she can help it; but now her pie
crust is all on the plates, and she was
obliged to, because she could not spare
the time to run to the grocer's. And
she will sit down in your kitchen, and
stop half an hour, and talk about every
body in town; and, meanwhile, she will
take an account Of everything her eyes
fall on, and she will see behind your
stove the cobwebs that you forgot to
brush down this morning; and she will
notice the old boots that your husband
left on the woodbox to dry, and she
will see that your lamp-chimnies have
not been washed, and that your dishes
are in the sink, and that you had ham
for breakfast, by the spatter of grease
on the stove, and when she goes into
some other neighbours house, on bor-
rowing expedition, she will give re-
port of what she saw in your kitchen,
and swear the neighbor over to eternal
secrecy regarding it; and the conse-
quence will be that in a week it will be
all over town that your folks live on
ham, and that you are the most untidy
housekeeper on the footstool.
When the borrower returns what she
borrows, it is always in little smaller
measure, if, indeed, she returns it at all.
And you may congratulate yourself if
you get half what belongs to YOU.
A regular borrower will borrow every
thing, from piece Of salt fish for break
fast, down to your boy, if you have one
The book borrower is even q greater
nuisance than the woman who borrows
household supplies. She never hest
tates to ask for the choicest or costliest
books in your house. And she seems to
think that she confers favor on you by
so asking.
And if you are fool enough to lend,
the possibility is that you will have to
go after the book in question, and will
find on doing so, that she has lent them
to some friend Of hers, who wanted to
read them; and she will tell you that
she knew you would be willing-you are
so good-natured.
In the course of our life we have been
asked to lend everything in the book
line that ever we owned, except our
Bible, and somehow nobody has ever
seemed to care about borrowing that;
and in nine times out Of ten, when we
have complied, our literature has come
back to us in shape that fitted it only
for kindlings indeed, we were lucky
enough ever to set eyes on it.
So we say to all our friends, if it be
possible to avoid it, never have a Dor
rover for neighbor. - Ne1v Tora.
Weekly.
a FAMOUS W.IX-WOKI I;XHIBIT10v
The gallery Of Nine. Tussaud, which
has delighted and thrilled us all in our
season, has been converted into a COM
pany. The exhibition is growing vener-
able now, for Nine. Tussaud first began
eAhlDltlng wax figgers in England in
1909, and, according to present appear
ance, her heirs, executors, administrat-
ors, and assigns will still be showing
the great and notorious of the earth. in
their habits as they lived, in POOP
London without the Tussaud gallery
would indeed be an arid waste to the
country cousin and the native infant
Nine. Tussaud did not settle down in
London until 1882, and her exhibition
at once took the place left vacant by the
closing of Mrs. Salmons famous show
IN Fleet street. That exhibition, which
was vastly fine in its day, occupied the
ancient building in Fleet street, oppo-
site the end of Chancery lane, which is
now hair-dresser's shop, and pretends
to have been (what it never was) "the
palace OF Henry VIII. and Cardinal
Wolsey." Mrs. Salmon had fine sense
Of humor, which is to be feared is lack
ing in the REPRESENTATIVES. of Nr