The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-11-03
THE BEST SIDE OUT.
A Curious Human Tendency
Shown in Many Small Matters.
The WearIsomo Efforts OF People to APP
pear Little Better Than Their
Neiehbors-The Failing Not Com
fined TO ANY One Glass.


There is everywhere tendency
among honest people to put the best
side out. If q woman has a hole in
her shoe, she always keeps the foot
which wears it out of sight under
her skirt, though in the present
style of dress it is a constant strug-
gle to do so, and to accomplish it re-
quires great deal of Judgment in
engineering.
The dandy, whose right glove
wears out first, changes his seal ring
to his right hand, and goes without
his glove, for nobody expects a man
to cover a diamond or a signet, with
Lisle thread.
The pretty girl, with q mole ON
her cheek, always tries to keep the
spotless side of her face next her ad-
mirers; and the girl who has burned
the hair off her temples, frizzing it,
will comb the back locks down over
the burnt district, and tell her
friends, SO sweetly, that she thinks
the style more becoming to her face.
The weak spots in the carpet are
covered by rugs; the books with
faded gliding are piled at the bot
tom; the healthiest looking plants
are put in the front window, so that
the jealous neighbors over the way
whose plants will begin to fade, can
see them; the brightest child of the
family is brought forward as
specimen, when there is company,
and if anybody rings the doorbell,
the best dressed member of the
household is sent down to entertain
the caller.
All this seems to come natural
there is no afIectation about it. 1t
is the innate desire Of everyone to
appear at his or her best, however
indifferent that best may sometimes
be.
But in the way Of putting the best
side out, nothing amuses us quite SO
much as to see the woman who is
hanging out washing of clothes
manage it.
No matter if it be the linen of her
own household, or an outsiders
washing, for which she is paid by
the piece, and in the ragged shirts
and pillow slips of which she can feel
no tender interest, she invariably
labors and plans to hang the best
looking articles next the street.
We have watched her on days
when the mercury indicated Zero.
and her fingers and nose were
pinched to the very bluest stage of
frigidity-watched her with her
, mouth full of clothespins, her rub
! bers down at the heels, her shawl
!, blowing over her head, and her sudsy
apron congealing to solid ice, run
ming wildly hither and thither, with
o torn towel in one hand and a
patched undergarment in the other,
} trying to find a place to hang them
! where they would not be discovered
{ by the most prying feminine eye,
; and yet stand a chance of getting
= dried.
She stands back and surveys her
. work with a critical air-rearranges
! here and pulls something up over
something else there.
: If there is a tucked and embroid-
). cred shirt, she puts that prominent
J. ly before the public-it has a front
/, seat; and the 'bosomed" shirts are
r put beside it in neat row, where
e every passerby can see and sigh
), over the energy it is going to require
. to iron those bosoms and put the
= polish on.
Sheets have a conspicuous place
provided they are not slit in the
middle, as they are liable to be i
!. they have seen much service; anC
q napkins have a good position beside
n them. Stockings are retired to thu
q back line and hung up so as to dis
4 play as little of the stripes as posi-
n bic. Men are always looking a
Ie stockings, our washerwoman gives
" as the reason. Let them look. TIL,
is stockings can generally manage t,
&C bear it.
81 And if the woman who is hanging
!. out clothes can possibly get her lin
N to look heater, tidier and fuller thai
l. her neighbours she is happy. AS
"a she thought the more clothes q fam
ic lily could manage to soil in wee