Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-08-23
AN ACCOMPLISHED WOMAN.
Her Praises Sung by the Man from Pos
 sum Ridge.

 Her Praises Sung by the Man from Pos
 sum Ridge.
 The other day group of men at corner grocery were discussing the ac- complishments of women, each one lay ing particular stress on those of his wife. An old chap from Possum Ridge was present, and after listening quiet ly to the conversation for some little time he strengthened up, spit about gill of amber on the stove, and said: "You fellers seem to hev sort O no- tion that your women air right smart pertaters when it comes to 'complish- ments, an it aint my place to say they aint. But I want to tell you right now that I've got a old oman up at home who aint no slouch in that thar respect, and when it comes right down to rale, straight-out, ever'day useful 'complishments, I low she kin lay it all over any of your women with one hand tied behind her."
 She's away up, then, is she?" the grocer asked.
 "rd say so. She's right slap in the top O the tree"
 "What are her accomplishmentsP''
 ''Mouty nigh everything, I recken. She jest got piles of 'em."
 ''Is she great in music?" "Wal, not so great in that as in some other things. Still she kin slop along arter a chune in meetin' right fair, and she kin blow right smart O noise out | O mouth organ, an the way she kin lay it onto a jewsharp haint to be | sneezed at."
 "How IS she in art-painting, for in. | stance?"
 "She's purity middlin' strong thar, stranger. I reckon that's one of her best holts."
 "She has done something that way, then?"
 'She shorely has, She painted the meetin' house last spring, an then painted up two or three old wagons for | the blacksmith, am everybody said they was wen done. Yes, sir; sloppin' paint is one O her strong p'ints, guess"
 "Her strongest point, no doubt," the grocer remarked with a smile. l "No, don't think it's her strongest pint, stranger. She's right up to the top in that, but she's clean out O sight in some other things"
 "What, for instance?"
 Wal, now, in the matter O rail split. tin, say. doubt if ther's a woman in this town that kin tech my wife in that partic'lar."
 She's accomplished in that, is she?'
 II kinder low she is. She's sixty-year old now, but she kin take her ax an maui an go out in the woods an split out two hundred rails any day an not half try. Kin your woman do that?"
 "No, she can not.''
 'I lowed she couldn't, yit you tall bout 'complishments. My old 'oma1 chopped the timber and mauled tho rails to fence my farm, an not only that, but she made the fence, cleared up twenty acres O new ground, ploweG , it, an planted an tended the crop Don't that pear to you sorter like as ii , she was slightly 'complished, hey?"
 Ut certainly does."
 ''That's the way I fgger it. But shucks that ain't all she's good fer, b, long sight"
 "She has other accomplishments, ha she?''
 ''Wal, think so. She kin hold he own with any man on Possum Ridg when it comes to cradlin' wheat O mowin' meader, somethin' I don't be lieve woman in this town kin do."
 'I presume not.'
 "Then my ole oman don't stop thu, stranger. She kin run a threshin' ma shine or a saw-mill, kin weave a ra cyarpet or break wild mewl, kin span a youngun or pull a stump, kin bil soap or shoe hoss, in fact, kin do abou anything you kin mention. She nc only kin do it, stranger, but she Ina done it, asides raisin' a family O sixtee children. Talk bout the 'complishment D women! Humph, you don't kno' what they air! My old 'oman's got 'en an got them as is wuth talkin' bou Whats little music an sich compare with maxim rails an tendin' crop al