Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-02-26
Forgot It.

hey are very similar, yet not exactly
Alike. 'I forgot it, sometimes does
ireadful damage. Here Is q case IN
point, says The Ladies' World. In g
certain house In a certain room, there
was a small stove whose pipe ran into a
.himney that had furious draught.
The house was frame cottage of good
ly size, almost new, and very pretty.
The owner was usually careful to keep
IL fully insured in a good company.
Well, that little stove was not the safest
stove to have In a frame house, so
every one was carefully instructed to
paw particular attention to that stove.
Each one of the family charged the
others not to forget to close off the
iraught at the proper time, and so all
went on smoothly; no one ever let the
stove burn at its full draught longer
han was necessary to get 1t well under
~ay.
One day, however, one member of
The family said to another in passing
,er door, "Jane, look after the little
| stove, and close the draught, or we
nav have an over-heated hue and set
| The house on fire." yes" answered
Jane, ''IIl see TO it" Now, Jane was
one of the most practical and reliable
Little women You can imagine, but Jane
| occasionally procrastinated and forgot,
but that happened so very seldom that
no one expected her to do anything SO
foolish.
Jane did forget, however, once too
often, and II was on this very occasion,
for she left the draughts open, the
stove became red-hot, and the pipe
ylowed like a cherry, and in a few mo
mems the fiue was over-heated, there
was smell of smoke, and what else
could You expect but a cOnhagration?
Jane wasn't the only one who forgoti
John had forgotten to renew the
policy, which had run out only a few
days before. John had been reminded
twice, but procrastination was his trou-
BILE al o, and what was there to do now
but to sit down and cry over the ashes
of the house and the household goods?
FortI nately, there had been a separate
policy ON the furniture, and there
would be- money to buy enough fu nj
ture to start life again IN n ''hat." Now
John and Jane and the rest of the
samily hated the very name of flat, and
so they were well punished for ''for-
getting" and procrastinatiOn. They
will all have time enough before they
get new cottage 10 learn how TO re-
member, and how To avoid the prOcras-
tination that leads TO disaster.
Another instance of forgetting caused
less grave results, in fact the results
looked very ''funuy" to the onlooker.
A housewife who was sdistractingly fond
of rare bits of porcelain, and spent
much time in dust ng and arranging
the cabinets holding her choicest
pieces, was at { e same time careless
about other things. While she would
guard her almost worshipped treasures
with the fondest care, she frequently
neglected some things which needed
her att, ntion- \ pretty rug laid on the
floor OF her drawing-room, in fact, be-
tween that room and her library. In
both rooms were cabinets of curiosities
and china, and my lady delighted In
frequently busting, and re-arranging
these pretty things, and for this pur-
pose carried them on a tray into an
other room, leaving them there while
she cleaned the cabinets and other
receptacles. After this process she
would go into the dIning-room and
carefully wash or dust each precious
cup or vase
One day she roticed that several
inches of the fringe of the rug had be-
come loose, SO she stopped down and
plactu three OF lOur pms IN II 10 secure
1t, meaning presently to take them out
and sew 1t down. She forgot il, and
what came of this procrastination? The
maid next day swept the two rooms,
and lifting up the rug to take it out-of-
doors to shake 1t, stuck one of the pins
in her finger, and being vexed drew
them all out and flung them away and
laid the rug carefully back in its place,
meaning, like her mistress, to repair it
later. but she didn't. Next day madam
carries all her treasures safely into the
other room, goes back and forth safely,
and dusts and prepares all the cabl-
nets, and then back once more for the
tray. So far no disaster has occurred,
hut presently she comes back with the
tray well loaded, and sets her foot on
the mat; the next moment she has fall
en- with the tray, and its precious con-
tents are scattered far and wide. Much
cement and patience and regret cannot
restore her precious bric-a-brac to its
pristine beauty; but the incident has
had its valuable lesson, madam will
never stick pins where she ought to use
thread and needle, and she will never
forget that a stitch in time would have
saved her n veritable heart-achs.