Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1890-05-16
Mr.. AND MRS. BOVSBR.

breakfast the other morning Mr'
Bowser slipped upstairs, and when
he came down again he had on his
old clothes. some changes had
been made in the house by which
we had gained a new bedroom,
and it at once occurred to me that
MIR. BOwser and his old clothes and
that bedroom were in some way
connected.
"You-you are not going to the
office this morning." queried.
"No, ma'am."
"You are not going to make gar
den p
"Hardly. Ipropose to finish up
that bedroom
GLOW ?"
Dwell, shall paper the walls, TO
begin with"
"Mr. Bowser, | wish you wouldn't
! | telephOned for a paper.hanger
Yesterday aad he will be here to-
morrow"
"And | stopped last evening and
told him not TO come up. | pro-
nose to have that job done in style"
"But YOU can't hang paper"
"Oh. | can't? Prepare yourself
for a surprise party. Mrs. Bowser,
I don't propose to have no wild.
eyed wallpaper artist around here
for ten days to do what | can ac-
complIsh IN one"
"Mr. Bowser, | solemniy warn
YOU not to attempt it. You Will
only make failure of it and then
blame me-"
'eThere will be neither failure
nor blame about it. III show you
the paper
He bad it hidden in the barn
When he brought it in and dis
played it felt like crying. 1t was
dark, cheap paper, OF a pattern
several years Old, and l was pre-
pared for his announcement that 1t
was a iob.l which he had secured
at five cents a ron.
"Mr Bowser, that room ought 70
have gilt paper"
clad l rushed off az you do,
Mrs. BowSer, | should have got
gilt. Do you know what the most
eminent chemists of The day de-
clare? They say that gilt paper in
bedroom shorteus life by many
years"
"And this stuff Will probably
prolong p
every likely
"Well, it ought to. Any one who
would select such paper ought TO
live 500 years and be ashamed of.
every day :"
"Mrs. Bowser, if you happen to
have outrageous taste in these mat
ters am not to blame. l don't |
propose to have my house turned
into museum just because yon
have no idea Of harmony. Wait
uatll the room Is done, and then II
you don't agree with me thatitiSt the
pre,hest bedroom you ever Strp.
ped into I'll buy you a new spring
hat"
He went ahead, of coarse, and
I left him alone for a couple Of
hours. When 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 of again
lay on the hOcr.
"The corner of the room is not
exactly plumb, you know" he said.
"Those bIicklayers and carpenters
never get a corner within two
inches of true"
"No, l suppose not. have read
that all paper.hangers make this
same iscovery. What's this paper
doing on the floor ?"
"Oh, got enough SO thai | could
experiment a little. There is no
great rush, you know. 1t isn't a
case of life and death, and | pro-
pose to develop some Artistic ideas
as | 90 along"
"Wel, lol haze mae a good
start at It. That second strip Is
on wrong side mp
"Whaim
"Look for }o rself. Here is the
vine and here the leaves. The
leaves o. ouc strip are al the top
and on the ct er at the b)tlom."
"Not much Yonr eyes are ont
of true, and one oflhem sees higher
than the other If NOn viii now be
so kind as to disappear I will WORK
ont some new ideas"
An hour later there was Il crash
upstairs which awoke the baby
, frightened the cat In'O falling oi
the window sill, and caused thu
2 cook to fly into the sitting-Toon
and called ont that n "slnclone" ha(