Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-08-09
Putting Down The windows At
Night.

On the advent OF thunder shower II ia
rarely that a man wakens first. II he should
he keeps quiet, so as not to disturb his wife.
and avails himself OF the first lrll TO 20
asleep again. How fferentlyl Just as she
awakes up aud hears that II is raining she
seems to lose all Judgment. She catches her
husband by the hair and shaking his head
hysterically. screams:
'"Get upl get up quicklyl It's pouring
right down in torrents, and all the windows
are nps
lie cannot wake up under such circum-
stances with an Immediately clear concep-
tion of The case, in fact tfcequently happens
that he is away out on the floor before his
eyes are fairly open, having but one idea
really at work, and that Is to what he is doing
out of bad. The first thing to do is 10 strike
light, and while he ia moving around for
the matches and swearing that some one has
broken into the house and moved them from
where he laid them on going to bed, which ia
always p'ansible enough, she hurls after him
the following tonios:
"Do hurryt Mercy, how that rain is COM
ing right into those windowsl We won't
have carpet left if you don't move faster.
What on earth are yon doing all this time?
Cant find the matches. Mercy sake, you
amt going TO stumble around here looking
for matches, are you. when the water is
drowning us ont? Go without light. What
man you are: Imight have better got up
in The first place. Well (desparingly) let
things 90 to ruin if you are a mind to. lev
said all I'm going to, an don't care if the
whole house goes to smash. You always
would have your own way, an Is'pose you
always will, and now you can do rs lon
please; but don't you dare to open your
mouth to me about it when the ruins done.
I've talked and talkedtill I'm tired to death.
and shan't talk any more. We never could
keep anything decent, and we never can;
and so that's the end of it. A brief pause }
John Henry, are you or are you not going
to shut down those windcws?"
just then he finds the matches, and breaks
the discourse by striking light. BE was
bound to have that help before he moved out
of the room. He has got tho lamp lighted
now. No sooner does its glare fill the room
than he Immediately blows it out again for
obvious reasons. He had forgotten that
the windows were open, and it almost caused
him to shiver when hs thinks of his narrow
escape.
He moves out into the other room with
celebrity now. He knowe very well the direc
| ton to go, and when flash of lightning
comes it shows him on the verge of climbing
over stool or across the center table. II
! there is rocking chair in the house he viii
strike it. A rocking chair is much surer in
| It's bltIl blidu u btTcdh VI tlEiibhibes ~ hOFCi
misses, and it never hits man in but one
spot. and that is just at the base of his shin
We have fallen against more than eight hun,
dred rockers of all patterns and prices, anC
always receive the first blow in the one place
We have been with dying people, and have
heard them affirm in the solemn hush of tha
last hour that a rocking chair always hits 1
man on the shin first.
And when man gets up in the dead o.
night to SHIT down The windows, he neve
misses the rocking chair. 1t is the rear ent
of one of tine rockers which catches him. /
is a dreadful agony, but he never cries out
| He knows his audience too well. woman
never falls over n rocking chair, and she viii
never understand why aman does. But sh,
| can tell whether a man has by the way h,
puts down the windows when he finally reach
es them. A rocking chair window (if W
may be alloped the term) can be heard thre
times as far rs any other.