The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-05-01
BILL ARp,s PHILOSOPHY.
atlanta Constitution.

domestic affairs The maternal ancestor
is going away, and don't know what
will become of us. When one of the
children misses meal or stays some
where all night, it is bad enough but
when the head of the house, the regulator,
the director general, is gone, itlooks like
we had just as we'll shut up aud 60 to the
hotel. who will strain the milk and look
after the milk pans and see to the
churning? Who will give out the sup
plies to the cook, and feed the chickens
and get the children up in time for
breakfast? Who will find their umbrel-
las and rubbers and gossamers when it
rains7 Who will look after the washing
aud sew on the missing buttons and take
care of the dog aud the cat and the
kittens9 Who will scold us all round
and keep things lively? But, she is
going-that is, if will fix her up; for
she has nothing to wear and no trunk to
putt in. "If + go to Americus," said
she, "you must fix me up nice. You have
made me so notorious that folks will ex-
pect 10 see very extraordinary woman ;
and so if ] have to play circus you must
fix me up"
Of course will. She went over to
Rome last week to see brand new grand
child and it was just the sweetest and
prettiest little thing in the world and had
the brightest eyes and the blacklist hair
and the tiniest little feet and hands, and
she was so glad it was a girl, and so forth
and SO on. And now she is going q long
journey to see another one, aad it takes all
hands to fix her. She makes me buy her
dresses. She always did, for she knows
that I will buy finer goods than she
would. The price is of no consequence,
when am fixing her up, for she takes
care Of her things. She always did. The
gills will spoil new dress in a month, if
there is a picnic or a frolic on hand, aud
they will break up parasols and fans, and
lose gloves and handkerchiefs and gossa.
mers, but their maternal ancestors never
loses anything. She says they take
all their destructiveness from me, and l
reckon they do. see them searching in
the bottom of their mothers trunk some.
times, when she is away. They are
hunting for something nice that she has
hidden away Yesterday, they wanted a
clean, linen buggy robe, and found it hid
out, and they used it and got back from
the ride just in time to slip it back again,
and they made Carl promise not to tell.
They steal her cologne and hapdkerchiefs,
and hairpins and collars, and cuffs and
stockings, and she don't find it out until
she wants to give them something, and
looks for it and it is gone, They have
done had it and worn it out. Of course
she raises a racket, but they smile and
sing, "What is Home Without Mother"
and in due time everything is calm and
serene. She is hunting up things now to
take to the mother and child in Americus
and she will find something. The big
trunk is not the only hiding place she has
got. I lost my hatchet and found it un-
der her bureau where she had put it away
for rae. She found it out in the yard
where had left it. 1t takes half her
time TO pick up and put away for the
family and we let her do it and never
complain.
"I've beer at work this week. l. was
my spring opening" she said, for the
flowers had to be brought out of the pit
-one hundred and forty. four pots and
boxes, and some of them big heavy ones,
and had them all to lift and carry up
the steps with my back-my lame old
back-but she said it was good for me to
take exercise. l had to fix up frame to
put them oD, but the large rose bushes
and geraniums had to go on the ground
and holes had TO be dug large enough to
bury dog in and then l had to haul
sand, rich loan and some fertilizer from
the barn yard and mix it all up and I'll up
the holes again and then bring water and
plant out the things and then split up
some stakes and tie the roses to the
stakes, and l don't know whether that is
all or not. If they don't seem to be do.
ing " ell III have TO move them some of
these days just for exercise. "What are
you going to do with all those plants in
the potts." said 1. "Put them in the
ground, of course" she said. "You can
work little while every day while am
gone. The girls will help you. 1t will
keep your mind employed and keep you
from grieving after me, but, of course, ]
know that you are glad I am going,
There are two large circular beds that
have to be bordered with them. l will
tell you all about it before I CO." On,
my country! Eleven dozen holes to dig,
There are the geraniums and fuschias and
verhenas and carnations and dingnationS
and high discus and low discus and bego'
Mas and little nonias aud heliotropes and
cenerarius and cataplasius and camelias
and tube roses, aud ever so many more
jan breaking things, and all this comes
from, my digging that flower pit and put
ting glass cover over it. I thought the
pit was to keep them in, but | suppose
will have to take them out every spring
and plant them and take them up every
fall and put them back in the pit. But il
is all right, Ireckon. Flowers are gooc
thing and everything costs labor and care
found two ripe strawberries in my gar
den to day and gave them to her with
conscious pride in my success as a gar
dener, but she made no demonstration
and remarked that she would find plenty
of them in Americus. She will com.
back in love with Americus, know, ant