Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-09-29
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NIX.
How is your chul ming done9'
| We don't churn: We stir the cream In .
Just as We used to DOR I said In q
weary dream: and my wrists ached.
do you have any debates or night schools
NO"
Amy temperance orsanizationsr'
do people drink much about herer'
Cider, IL it's an apple year."
Make vinegar to sellf'
NO"
"Why not?"
II dom know"
Keep any sheepT"
Raise any stockG"
What Is that land or therer'
What do you pasture on itr.
What is that feldf'
What do you do with hayr"
"Nothin'. 'twon't pay for cuttin'. unless
| It's remarkable good year."
Il see You are building a barn"
Yes; eighty feet longi''
Why do you build a barn?"
wei. the old one was pretty much to
gon house"
What do you keep in a barnf'
NOtnlp Dut a horse and cow"
How about politics? Do you voter"
well, now, what do you spose I dof /
rather guess I vote. unless IL rains. I may
be old and decrepit, but 1 amt too old to
green"
Who did you vote for last year for Con-
II dom know now"
who was electedr'
che democrat. I dom know who he
| was"
who is your representative In legisla-
| ture?'
81 forget"
What d, you think Of woman suffrager'
Womens voting"
"Pshsw. new; women don't vote"
But they want to-
| "Whor You don't say so! Well. that's the
beatin'est I've heard. womenl Be goshr'
What DO you think about it?''
Il think they won't vote; not whites my
names Pittman Tooley. I'd like to ketch
any women folks that belong to me q
votin,! Why. they don't know no more about
votin than q no-horned COW does about
hookin'. Much's ever they know enough to
| make minute puddin'. nowadays. Votei
| Wen, am beat i never heard tell O. such
thing. Where you been7 Who told your
| want they jest a tryin' to poster We and
make fun on We? You don't spose any wo-
men folks rally think they know enough to
| vote. do your
1 gave him w. and determined to nav a
visit Of coincidence to Jobs wife
| found her standing on the parlor win
dow sill. washing windows. The sun was
| temporarily allowed to wander all over the
| room, and touched the sheeted cornse
| gently.
Il hadn't cleaned house this spring" she
| explained. Job catched cold SO easy /
didn't even dast to scald a BEDFORD. So, OF
course, had to pitch in, nckity-splft and
DO II all before the funeral I'm most .ucl<-
cred out. but the neighbors are real clever.
Two OF EN- are whitewashin' the upstairs.
while 1 clean the downstairs. One is a
!oungish girl and wouldn't work before the
corpse; but 1 amt afraid o. Job, alive or
dead; and IL / can get all through before
| the funeral. tn be two good Jobs out O. the
way at once"
] She polished the glass almost fiercely with
piece OF muslin with one hemmed edge
| ana suspicious rounded corners that be-
trayed that already she had appropriated
law. W
| You know" she said. everybody goes to
funerals There amt much to go to, and
h .ne only chance folks have to get to the
Duryin ground and weed out the graves of
Their own folks, Hank Moulthrop found a
hens nest on his wife's grave with eight
eggs tn Il, the day Phily Todd was buried.
1 amt goin' to have but four hacks, though.
Folks that walked over Job when be was
he's dead.
Il guess you hain't lived away so long bu,
what you know that them that don't get a
chance to go to the grave stay and neck ali
over the house while the mourners are gone
When Uncle Pitts sons widow died, they
sven Ss rulnmaged her bureau draws. and
iound an ainbrotype of Leander Rose. He
mad been to see her some since Cousin Pitt
oied' and they haint done talkin' about IL
yet. 1' IL
And they said there was a. bur,r =, r,o,
nlshy and rag In the top draw. and the
sihs IN the butt'ry didn't look as IL they'd
been secured for year
Il wouldn't miss gettin' the whole house
e0. 10 Cfa
neral And I'll wear my teeth to the grave
count 'em. ~ oAe
I'm goin' to burn every scrap OF letter
or paper Job had. or me They WON'T f;ed
anything to harp on and crow over here
4 can tel EN-, the old rapscallionsl Some
aoihs LOCK everything up. I won't lock up
thing. I'll leave everything open and
make 'em think they've got onto a nest
aon OF eggs. Thath make 'em maddern
| day after the funeral and they're anothar
SET OF pizen old pelicans. II they find an
IRON pot that leaves a speck o. black on
their hands. or spiders web In a potater
ON, or button on o. one o. Jobs shirts.
| day: WI"
Now. II you'll excuse me, IN 20 and
with" WIG AAoof
1T is very hard for you to have to work
IKE this after your long watching and In
VIZ nfst sioch OF your grief
NO, Ii amt hard. 1t would be harder ~
| l had to set round and SWIVEL Every mean
trick the neighbors played on Job and every
hateful word 1 ever gave him, 1 can take
| II out on myself with the mop. / don't
want to do no thinkin', either, til after
the prisal, when I'll know what I've GOT
and what I've got to do"
did Job leave a willr"
mo. He had one big enough for two. but
| he took IL with him"
She smiled grinly at her Joke and con-
| tinued:
II shall have the use Of q third. That's
q little worse than nothin'. The rest goes
! to his folks. that ne hain't seen Ia forty
five years. He was bound out when he was
seven years Old
That is a very unjust law. Do you not
think women ought 10 voter"
| What's that got to do about it?'
| why, then they would help make better
| laws"
Men wouldn't let 'em, would they? They
| never let women do anything but wait on
| en- while they give orders. First time I've
cleaned house in thirty years that / hain't
| been bossed about how much soap to Use
| and how often to change my suds.
| NO. don't want to vote and couldn't