Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1890-04-10

Bowser came In soon after that. coat of.
sleeves rolled up and a roller towel tied
around him, and he explained:
Il simply asked her if she thought
this house was a saw-mill. and she called
me a mastodon and few for her bundle.
Is she n fair specimen Of the help you
have TO deal within
YES
We'll, you and all other hOusekeepers
have my deepest sympathy l used I o
think IL wasyour fault that 50 many girls
came and went, but | want to apologize
AID take it all lack
But what shall We do?-
"DO? VIII, I'll run the kitchen until
After breakfast and then get agirL~
After he had been n work for 4 few
minutes crzwled out 20 see how thing.
were going. He WIS washing dishes.
He had the teapot, milk pitcher, butter
dish. napkin rings. two pie tins and the
crockery all heaTed togets er n a dish
pan. and while he was wishing them
with a dish-tOwel he was vi, ing them
on one of baby's old SKIRTS taken
from the hamper in the stairway. There
were streaks of dishwat T clear Town to
his heels, and a dozen new g e-ase-spots
had appeared or floor and G5-e. bu. he
insisted that l go RIGHT ba y and leave
him alone, and / hal no distractions to
give. He had every thin tore up in
half an hour and when he came in TO sit
down he said:
Every thing out there is as slick as a
MN ard ra1EFaz - al -T.--- T.
That girl would have been sIoshing
around until ten o'clock before she had
her dishes done. I'd like to be in your
place about = month I'd make some of
EN- wonder why they were ever hornr'
But every house has Just such
trouble
Then you women ought 10 league to
gether 20 protect yourselves
What are you going 20 have for
hreakfast?7
Never you mind. Mrs Bowser. II
ion't get you the best breakfast you
have see in = whole year I'll give up
that l don't know nothing about a
house.
About midnight l heard him mutter-
ing in his sleep:
Take TWO egg-saleratus-fve min
ctes-greased rag-oae tablespoonful 10
zach person
IL usually takes me all of twenty min
1tes to get Mr.. Bowser out of bed in the
morning, and the task Is never ACCOM-
plishei without resort TO fiction as TO
the ~ateness of the hour. On this =
ticular morning he slipped out before !
vas awake, and he had been working in
the kitchen n full hour before 1 got
down No man can be made to believe
that there is a right and a wrong way to
sheets or table-cloths- Mr.. Bowser had
set the table Just as any other man
would The cloth was wrong-side-to,
the teaspoons in the celery dish. the
sugar-bowl running over, and the meat
platters and bread-plates had changed
duties Some of his slices of bread were
two inches thick, and some almost a.
thin as paper, and two of them bore in
iisputable proofs that he had cut his
finger while cutting his bread.
He requested me to sit down while he
brought in the meal He had his cut
finger in a rag, black on his nose, -four
on his ears and his face had that color
peculiar TO red paint He also went
lame in his left leg. caused, as I after
wards asertained, by the rolling-pin
falling on his foot When he had every
thing on the table he looked around him
with ~aself-satisfed air and proceeded 70
do the honorS Peer Mr.. Bc-serl he
had put the steak into \ s-.3er without
burrRr or GREASE and - a. q kr.~k a.
coal and rather more tastelesS When
be poured the coffee the grounds insist
ed on filling half the cup, and the eggs
he had fried in some rancid lard the girl
had set away and that could not be ap-
preached nearer than two feet He had
attempted 10 bake some potatoes. but
they were hardly warmed through In
his goodness Of heart he had toasted me
apiece Of bread, and when il fell into