Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-05-24
BORR0W ERs
BY14.gEE THORN.

/ VIII want 70 know II the drainage IS
/ good if the air is pure, If there has
I ever been malaria, how far It is to the
/ depot and postohice; but ten to one You
/ don't inquire if there are any borrowers
in the neighborhood.
Now, q chronic borrower is deadly
nuisance in community. A woman
who is always lust OUT of saieratus
VIII stir up more trouble in a neighbor-
hood than mad dog, and a flock of
/ fifteen hens, and a rooster.
/ She VIII run in on you at any and all
! hours, and want to borrow Just little
! sugar, or spice, till she can send to the
/ groeer's. She really did not know she
was anywhere near out, till she went
about her cooking, an5 then she found
that she hadn't a dust of sugar in the
house, and not a soul around anywhere
that she could send out after any!
And she viii tell you that she does so
hate to trouble you; for if there is any
thing on earth that she disikes to do, it
is to borrow-and size 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 viii sit down In your kitchen, and
stop half an hour, and talk about every
body in town; and, meanwhile, she viii
take an account of everything her eyes
fall on, and she VIII see behind your
stove the cobwebs that you forgot to
brush down this morning; and she viii
notice the old boots that your husband
left on the wood-box to dry, and she
viii 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 a Dor
rowing expedition, she viii give a 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 viii be
all over town that your folks live on
ham, and that you are the most untidy
housekeeper on the footstooI.
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 a piece Of salt fish for break
fast, down to your boy, if you have one.
The book borrower is even a greater
nuisance than the woman who borrows
household supplies. She never hest
tates to ask for the choicest or costiest
books in your house And she seems to
think that she confers q favor on you by
so asking.
And if you are fool enough to lend,
the possibility is that you viii 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 viii 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 a neighbOr. - Nel0 York
WeebJy.
4 FAMOUS W-IX-WOBK Exhibition
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 veneer
able now, for Nine. Tussaud first began
exhibiting "wax fggers" in England in
1909, and, according to present appear
ance, her heirs, executors, administrat-
Ors, and assigns viii still be showing
the great and notorious of the earth, in
their habits as they lived, in 2O02.
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 IL
London until 1882, and her exhibition
at once took the place left vacant by the
closing of Mrs. Salmon's 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 Chaneery lane, which is
now hair-dresser's shop, and pretends
to have been (what it never was) @the
palace Of Henry VII and Cardinal
Wolsey." Mrs. Salmon had a fine sense
Of humor, which is to be feared is lack
ing in the representatives Of Nine