Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1893-09-24

She would have attended to my case,
too. but that was all the red flannel she
had. We had made some further inVes-
LEGATIONS as 70 the source ofthe draught
and had almost decided that II came
from the dark and mysterious cavities
into which our folding doors withdrew
when our aunt permits them TO be open.
IL Is Often possible 90 hear strange and
melancholy sounds by listening at that
ono OF the three caverns which lead
away dimly in the directions OF our
neighbors. The sounds OF pianos get
10 that way, and why, / asked, should
not othor deleterious influences invade
our dwelling by the same track? In
view Of this possibility we began to plug
things into this place, and poke them
back with a long stick. We used old
newspapers, and almost anything, In
fact which we did not want In our hat.
The hole appeared 20 have a capacity
about equal TO that OF the bottomless
pit, but our supply OF rubbish was good
aud our diligence exemplary. think
that we might still be engaged in trying
to an that cavity If the gentleman who
rents the nat next to ours had not come
over tO1inQuir ewhat was our object In
thrustlng eighteen bushels OF waste
paper and two pairs OF old pantaloons
into his parlor. He said that the news
papers were out Of date and the cloth
ing did not e. him; and, in short, he
begged US TO desiSt.
"Pll tell you where the trouble Is. ="
said our aunt at this stage Of the game,
''your windows don't fit. There are
cracks around them big enough to
crawl through"
There was undoubtedly some truth IN
| her allegation. Our landlord has built
q great many houses, and the parts OF
them we're furnlshedEto him by whole
sale. Sometimes he was not so careful
as he ought to have been in putting
things together. Several Of our windows
were intended, l believe, for other
houses in different parts of the town.
I had known that this was true ever
since we moved in but could not ask
him to 90 hunting around his extensive
real estate for the missing pieces OF our
flat. II seemed best 10 follow our aunts
advice, and get a man to put weather
strips on the window. 1t will not sur
prise anybody who knows me to hear
that went into the membership game
in the gentle spring instead Of in the
fall. I engaged the weatherStrlp artist
90 come on the next day. By this time
ths newly-dlscovered draught had given
Maude such a cold that she could not
speak above a whisper.
suDerintended the adjustment OF the
weather strips IL was necessary to
keep the windows open while the work
progressed, and in the course OF the
operation I contracted chill that will
probably never leave me In this world.
Our girl, too, has q cold, She suffers
because OF her obedience 10 our orders,
whichis the last fate should ever have
predicted for her. BY keeping the
kitchen windows closed according TO
directions she raised the temperature
OF that room to q point which made 1t
nee essary for her to 90 about her work
clad in as little as was consistent with
her ideas of propriety. Consequently,
whenever she was obliged TO 90 into any
other room, she felt the difference In
temperature to a degree which was too
much even for an iron constitution, So
she bought a quart bottle OF Irish
whisky and went homo TO her relations
10 the Forth ward, who welcomed the
bottle.