The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1893-12-09
And then gin him about three full

And then gin him about three full
smiles and seq:
''The mop is ahangin' up behind the
back room door and the stove-brush
and blaclin' arein the suller-way, and
the lamp-chimney cleaner is a. hangin'
up over the kitchen sink"
For so arjous had been my work a.
doin' that immense churnin' that my
usual mornin's work wuz neglected and
ondone.
what are You a-goin' to do?" he
yelled
II am a-goin' to charm you, Josiah.
'Wimmen are made to charm men,
They should do nothin' important. A
clean house is important; therefore,
will not clean. Eatin' is important;
therefore, will not cook. 1 will emu
late the rose in its wisdom. will
charm and be silent"
And I leaned back in q still more
luxurious attitude in my cushioned
chair, and smiled quite good deal at
him.
''Are you dumb lunatick?" SEE he.
"Or what duz all you?"
And he put on his glasses and looked
closer at me.
But still sat demute and graceful as
1 could, and still tried faithful to al
lure and charm him accordin' to the
rules laid down by big men and APP
proved by smaller ones.
But anon as looked, see a change
come over my pardners face. His an
CRY mean subsidized, and look of in
tense and questionin' alarm and agony
swept over his eyebrow.
And see him glance at the campfire
bottle. And anon he turned silently
and reached up the stairway for the
soapstun, with his eye on me all the
time.
And he SEE, in low, appealin' axents:
Don't you want to be rubbed, Sa-
mantha? Where is your worst pain?
Won't campfire relieve you? Shall L
go after Miss Gowdy or the doctor?
Don't you want your feet soaked?" SEE
he, glancin' toward the tank.
SEE /: Josiah Allen, don't want
soapstuns or campfire. want reason
and common sense in my companion;
that is what want to relieve me. /
have tried jest as faithful as ever q
woman did to foller after the rules you
read this mornin'. You said you loved
the men that wrote 'em, and if would
only foller them rules you would be the
happiest man in Jonesville or in the
world. / have follered 'em faithful
for about twenty minutes, and it
has reduced you to the condition of
lunatick. If twenty minutes of it
has brung you to this state, what
would hours and days of it do, and
years. Now it has made you lose
morals, tear round, use indecent lam
guage, break your word with grocers,
and act Now if You have had enough
of my follerin' them rules, say so, and
will stop"
'Oh. dumb the piece, and dumb the
fellers that wrote it."
l turned away from him and ag'in
broke out in that sweet and winnin'
smile, and clasped my hands allurin'ly
over by bask waist.
He stamped on the floor; he kicked!
But 1 kept firm and smiled onto him,
and ag'in i called him ''sweet. darlin'
pet"
That was the time when he kicked
the boot-jack acrost the floor and
jammed the clothes-press door to that
extent that one PANEL has been loose
to this day.
But will draw the curtains on their
brass rod over the scene But suffice il
to say that at twelve o'clock land he
said he hadn't had mouthful to eat
in forty-eight hours) he capitulated
with no terms.
He said: Dear Samantha, have had
enough of the rose act have had
enough of allurin' and charmin'. now
want some meat vittles, and 1 want
'em quick"
So got right up and got as good a
dinner as hands ever got, but quick.
l Drilled a young, tender fowl, had
already dressed; smashed up some po-
tatoes with plenty of cream and butter
into 'em; l made a orange puddin',
quick, but delicious-it would fairly
melt in your mouth. And had some
rich yeller coffee that would do your
soul good to partake of.
And while was a-gettin' the dinner,
and If You will believe it, such is my
tact and my faculties for turnin' of
work, got time to finish, that last
layer of butter, and imegiately after
dinner put snow-white cloth over it,
sprinkled it with salt on top. and 10.
siah sot off in good season, after all,
for Jonesville.
And. at his request, put on my
brown alapacky dress and rode down
with him.
And as we went along we visited,
very agreeable. He was very affection
ate (owin' to that coffee. and partly by
his feelin's for me-he worships mel.
He said: THAT sweet, fowery talk
read well, and made men feel kinder
generous and comfortable to write it,
and men feel dredful sort o. patronizin'
and good natered toward wimmen to
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