The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-13
PUT DOWN THE CARPET.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bowser and Their
Housekeeping Trials.

bedStead this afternoon, SAID MIS-.
Bowser after dinner the other even
ing.
Ibid, Ell? Just week since you
picked it out, isn't IT r
''Only four days"
Curious how everybody takes adj
vantage of you. They wouldn't
have dared fool with me that way!"
"That-that carpet isn't done yet "
There's another specimen of
your style of running things! The
internal falsifers agreed to be here
two months agor'
ooh, no, dear. They said some
time this week.
"And they'll fool around till Sep
TENDER! Mrs. Bowser, don't want
to find fault with you, but I do wish
you knew more aboutbusiness. You
let everybody walk Oh you as if you
were a worm Of the earth.
"But can l bring the men up
here?" she protested.
"FIow is it that everything I order
gets here on the minute! Besides,
Mrs. Bowser, l do business in bus
iness way. IF / shonld let you have
full swing here, where do you sup
pose we'd land at the end of six
months! However, will show
those carpet men that they can't
fool with Jonas ]. Bowser, no matter
what excuse they can palm off on his
wife. I'll slip up and put that car
pet down in about seven minutes.
"You-you don't mean it ?" she
gasped.
''Certainly, I do. I don't care
about saving dollar or two, but /
propose to assert my independence.
Where's the hammer"
81 wish you wouldn't. A carpet
has got to be nicely put down"
Exactly. l have seen one or two
carpets in my life.
''But know how it will end" she
persisted. you'll get tired out, get
mad, and then"
'And then, what?"
"But, remember, it is against my
wishes. If any thing happens, don't
blame me.
"When did I ever blame you.
When did any thing ever happen?'
She gave it up, and he removed
his coat, vest, necktie and collar and
disappeared upstairs. The carpet
lay in heap on the floor, and he
unrolled it. pushed up his sleeves
and was about to begin work when
Mrs. Bowser opened the door and
observed:
Il don't see how you are to get it
down without stretcher."
"Perhaps not. There are great
many things in this world for you
and every other wife to learn, Mrs.
Bowser."
She retired and two minutes later
heard the sound of the tack hammer
She stood it for five or SIX minutes,
and then went up and looked in on
him again. He had got the carpet
tackled along one side, but she called
out:
"Why, you are tacking that carpet
on the bare floor! There's the lin
ing on the windows sill! You'd have
made nice job of it.
He couldn't crawl out of it, and
he contented himself with rising up
and pointing sternly toward the
door. She went out, but listened
and heard the rip! rip! rip! as be
pulled up his work. 1t was a quar-
ter of an hour before she dared enter
again, and then it was in response TO
veil which made the cook drop
seven plates and the dog howl
mournfully.
"W-what is it," she gasped, as
she rushed in to find Mr.. Bowser
standing on one leg against the
wall.
"What is WHAT"
"Whv, YOU whooped like an In
dian. Your face is as red as fire,
and something's happened!
Mrs. Bowser, l am not in the
habit of whooping!" he sternly re-
piled, land nothing has happened.
When l want your valuable services
I'll call to you The exclamation
you heard probably came from some
one in balloon passing over the
house"
He had hammered away for about
ten minutes when she looked in on
him again. He had three sides Of
the carpet down and was tacking the
fourth. Just as she reached the
head of the stairs he rolled back
ward out of the bedroom door with a
suppressed yell and great crash.
"What on earth are you trying to
do, Mr.. Bowser?" she asked.
"You up here again." he shouted
in reply. Didn't | tell you to &C
down stairs and stay there? Does il
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