St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-21
Mr.. BOWSER'S new JOB.
he Papers a Bed Room Accor ding
to Bis Own Ideas.
AN ARTIST AND NO MISTAKE
4 Piece of Work That Even NJ axes His
Nearest Neighb0rs
Smile.

Some changes had been made in the
house by which we had gained new
bed room, and it at once occurred to
ME that MI. Bowser and his old clothes
and that bed room were in some way
connected.
"You-you are not going to the Office
this morning?' | queried.
mo, ma'am."
'sYou are going to make gsrden?"
Hardly. [ propose to finish up that
bed ROOM
"How?"
swell, shall paper the walls to be-
gin with"
''Mr. Bowser, wish you wouldn't. l
day and he will be here tomorrow"
"And stopped last evening and told
him not to come up. l propose to have
that job done in STYLE"
but you can't hang paper"
"Oh, l can't? Prepare yourself for
surprise party. Mrs. Bowser. don't
propose to have no wild-eyed wall pa
per artist around here for ten days to
do what can accomplish in one"
''Mr. Bowser. solemnly warn you
not to attempt it. You will only make
failure of it and then blame me-"
There will be neither failure nor
blame about it. I'll show you the pa
per-"
He had it hidden in the barn. When
he brought it in and displayed it felt
like crying. 1t was dark, cheap paper,
of pattern several years old. and L was
prepared for his announcement that it
was a job lot which he had secured at
five cents roll.
Mr.. B0wser, that room ought to have
gilt paper"
Had | rushed off as you do. Mrs.
Bowser, | should have got gilt. Do you
know what the most eminent scientists
of the day declare? They say that gilt
paper in bed room shortens life by
many years"
And this stuff will probably prolong
it?'
Very likely"
"Well. it ought to! ANY one who
would select such paper ought to live
500 years and be ashamed OF himself
eoery dayw
Mrs. Bowser, if you happen to have
outrageous taste ill these matters | am
not to blame. l don't propose to have
my house turned into museum just
because you have no idea of harmony.
if you don't agree with me that it is the
prettiest bedroom you ever stepped into
I'll buy you new spring hat"
He went ahead, of course, and left
him alone for a couple of hours. When
l went up he had two strips on, and was
standing back to survey them. Two
more strips which had been pasted and
stuck ON and then pulled off again, lay
on the floor.
"The corner of the room is not exactly
plumb, you know" he said. "Those
bricklayers and carpenters never get
corner within two inches of true"
''No, suppose not. have read that
all paper-hangerS make this same dis
eovery. What's this paper doing on the
floor?''
"Oh, got enough so that could ex-
pertinent a little. There is no great
rush, you know. 1t isn't case of life
and death, and l propose to develop
some artistic ideas as [ go along"
"Well, you have made good start at
it. That second strip is on Wrong-side
up"
.sWhatr'
s'Look for yourself. Here is the vine
and here the leaves. The leaves on one
strip are at the top, and Oh the other at
the bottom"
mot much! Your eyes are out of
true, and one of them sees higher than
the other. If you will now be so kind
as to disappear will work out some
new ideas''
An hour later there was a crash up
stairs which awoke the baby. frightened
the cat into falling off the window sill
and caused the cook to fly into the
sitting room and call out that a ''sin-
clone" had struck the house and
brought down every chimney. hur-
ried up stairs to Mr.. Bowser. He sat i'm
a chair trying to smile and look uncOn-
cerned, but one of the steps of the lad
der was gone, and [ knew that he had
come down like load of stone.
Ibid you call?' | asked.
"Me9 Oh, no. am studying ON an
idea"
There was paste on his hair and
pieces of wall paper sticking to his
back, but | withdrew without further
remark. When he came down at noon
l was in hopes he had abandoned the
work. 1t was evident he had lame
back and he dragged one leg as he
walked, and I thought it a fitting OPP
portunity to say:
II wouldn't bother with that room
any more if 1 were you. presume
you are wanted at the office"
''Did you? The office is locked up
and l have the key in my pocket"
''But why not get paper hanger?"
because am going to do it myself.
l find that am little short of paper,
and l guess FL telephone for more"
He gave an order for four double
rolls, and after dinner went back to his
laborS, locking the door so that | could
not Sc his work. About mid-afternoon,
however, as l listened at the door, l
heard him growing:
"Hang that carpenterW He didn't
get this wall within two feet of straight,
and that last strip has got to come OFF,
Just before supper he came down and
telephoned for two more rolls of paper |
and forty feet more of border but he
looked so pale-faced and stoop-should
cred and done out that | hadn't the |
heart to say anything about the room.
He fell asleep in his chair while reading
the paper, and every few moments ut
tered groan or sigh. He was paste
and paper from head to heel and back |
again. and could hardly get upstairs |
from the IameneSS in his legs and back. |
Next morning. as he seemed undecided
whether to go to the Office or upstairs. l
asked if l shouldn't telephone for the
paperhanger. That decided him and
he replied:
Il wouldn't be as iealous-minded as
you are, Mrs. Bowser. for all the m oney
in the world! You are shaking in your
shoes for fear that l will do really
nice bit of work."
1t was O'Clock in the afternoon be-
fore he would allow me to enter the
room. and then he announced its com
pletion.
''Just give me fair and honest opin-
ion of it, without reference to relation
ship he said, as he stood in the center
of the room and looked around.
If he had been armed with a knife to
cut my throat I should have been COM
PEELED to laugh. Seven of the strips
were wrong eEd up. Four of them wer
on crooked. He had Tapped the paper
onto the base and window castings, and
his border was up and down like the