The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-19
The Way We Keep House.
ANDY CRUNCH.

AS for me and Jim we don't keep 1t much
ourselves, but there are members of our fami'
| ly that do, and they generally manage to keep
| II In such a way that the aforesaid me and
| many more women folks at our house we'd
either have to quit or 60 crazy one.
Ii you nave been at our house may De you
know how they keep it-that is unless you
than that You know nothing about it at all.
There Is sight OF difference between our
! front yard and the back one. and a sight more
between our parlor and tho kitchen. We've
got sofa and some pictures In one and keep
1t swept, and we've got some pots and tin
pans in the other and don't keep IL swept.
The next time you come to our house II you
knock at the kitchen door instead OF the
front one, you will see q different sight alto.
gether.
guess you'll see my Ma with that old
checked calico frock on that she wears three
fourths of the time and more smut on her face
the woman that sits in the same pew with me
on Sunday, she is fixed up then and got on
her good behavior.
We don't mind how things look In the kitch
ell where there's nobody likely to see them but
where our company comes Is another thing
altogether.
What worries the life ont of me and Jim is
this everlasting and eternal way Of sweeping
and straighting and washing hearths and hid
ing everything u fellows got, (all this takes
place where the campany comes)
1t seems TO me the minute we get In the
house 1t don't make any difference whether
we are as cold rs blaZes or not, Morandy
grabs broom and goes to sweeping, and Sa.
manthy sails out and gets an old tin 6ucket
full OF mud and water and washes the hearth
we then tells US not to step on 1t, andlif are do
well there's arrow.
They have another habit at our house Of
scouring-they get all the house wet about the
same time and when we get within quarter
of mile every woman on the place. niggers
included, commence shouting watch out
"wipe your feet" "go through the window
anua thousand other things that are enough
to run man to suicide.
Jim had hard enough time before he was
married but now with sister Jim (thats MS
wife) and Morandy together don't know
what he will do. I'm looking for him to com
out some morning with well nigh nothing or
at all. ,,
in the prayer meeting room-bv that we NEAR
the next best room In the house-the compa
ny room is best Of course. I've been sleeping
not being married-for they put every olt
thing in there that they don't put in the gar
ret. My Mas drug store is in there and pill
Of old trunks and boxes packed slamtoe o.
nothing, and some shelves piled up will
clothes that we are saving-for the next gen
there where we put the frazzled ends of cloth
es and the pieces that are left over.
1 don't know whether you have O rag-oag
your house or not, but we've had one at ou
m ember of the family. Whenever any OF m!
| -{really its nothing but cotton) gives out
walk over and pack 1t in, but generally some
body pulls it out and darns 1t over or patches
| it, according to what it Is, and starts me Il
wearing 1t again
Housekeeping Is very Interesting especiall!
where you've got four or five women to maxi
things lively.