The Somerset reporter., 1895-12-10


Agricultural Pursuits In the Garden OF
Eden Painted by a Modern I've.
That too familiar item ON our plumb
er's bills, TO man and helper, Is cx-
pressive Of SO much IN our daily domes-
TIC relations that one almost foreives the
plumber the gft Of the phrase
I'm patch up that paper on the wall;
you leave it, says sam. And then sam
appears on a day when you are III the
thick Of some particularly absorbing
household task and he says 1--WE come
up early 10 mend that paper and if
you'll just make some paste for me
please, I'll ~ At it, - You SIGH, but DO
il cheerfully. thinking, if II is early IN
your married life, that that Will be all.
Presently, however there Il demand
for rags, stepladder. pail and Whlsk
broom. These also you get out and re
turn to your work.
" Fan, calls sam, where have YOU
hidden my brush; 1t was IN the toolbox
right in the left hand corner, and 1t is
gone. Some one must have taken IT, -
Again you leave your task and 90 up
stairs or down stairs 10 the place whence
cometh the plant and behold the brush
little to the northeast perchance, but
quite III the visible neighborhood Of that
little left hand corner. Without even
blush Of shame he takes IT, and YIN re
turn to Your OWN work You have bare
~ begun again, when sam appears at
the door Where can | find IA box the
right size 10 set on the stairs, So that
can put some boards across on which t.
stand the stepladder:'
You think minute. and you know
that the only box available Is one filed
with odds and ends of ncedful Kitchen
things, but you resignedly lay them all
out ON the foo and give sun tie loN.
catching at the same moment i hook
which reveals that he Is about II ask
you for the boards. There are only two
long boards ON the premises, and those
form walk in the backyard SUil they
can be taken up, and they er-hut II
entails vigorous brushing and c.emsing
Then for time sam vauiShe~ and all
is serene, but hot for long There are a
chatter of boards and notes Of masculine
trouble, which YOU ignore, until. find
ing that it is not Il day for taking
hints Sam calls again. Fan. will you
please come and steady this thing, or
III break my neck. OF COURSE You 90.
and of course you find that hc has not
already broken it. You get odds and
ends of things together to even up and
strengthen his ricllety scatfolding. and
then you sit on step with your head
up between the boards to steady the lad
der, except when you vary it by hand
ing pasty rag, or brush, or a match
for his pipe. Then is the time You say,
ITO man and helper, three hours, and
get your revenge, for Sam really sees
the point,
Now, II is Il strange thing that il is
always IMAM and helper. If Il woman
undertakes anything, as "a rule She goes
ahead and gets her things together and
does it all by herself, but if a man starts
any task not in the line of his ordinary
business he will manage TO draw ia
himself the assistance of every woman
within call. If il is driving nails, some
one must hand the nails To HIM; IA Wom-
an would keep them in her pocket or
mouth. If he is riveting something, the
woman must hold the other hammer ON
the under side and get in her arm the
Jar Of the stroke If he even mends his
tishrod or ties his flies. She must hold
the waXed thread or turn the rod with
both hands. | do not see how any mar
RED woman can doubt the truth of the
Scriptures. Why, to her, the fifteenth
and eighteenth verses of the second
chapter Of Genesis set the seal of truth
fulness upon the whole When man WAS
made and put III the garden Of Eden to
tend it, he hadn't been there day be
fore woman had to be made to help
him. He couldn get along alone at all
Fancy him starting out to SOW his rad.
ish seed and having nobody to ask how
fan she thought he ought to put the rows
apart, SO he could put them some other
distance 1t must have been awful!
Poor Eve For Of all conditions o.!
"helper' that of the gardeners helpe:
is the worst 1t is easy to imagine her-
her day 5 work over, as She SUPPOSE
planning for a quiet rest upon Il cool
green bank through the long summer
twilight Along comes Adam. belatcd
in his work. because he had been east
ing his line from shady hooks INTO deep,
messy pools, where the specklcd trout
are lying and he says to Eve: My
dear, won't ydn come along with me IN
To the nudpn: | haven I seen ANYTHING