Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1895-03-20
HE GAVE I UP.

A man with a small valise and
persuasive voice invaded house on
the West Side the otha day, says the
Chicago Tribune, and ttroduced him-
self as follows:
~ have secured thSsgency for this
city, ma'am, of a work (which should
like to show you. 1t entitled THE
Modern Housewives Ftend, Compan-
ion and Guide It co|tains upwards
of 27,O5O receipts, including specific
directions for"
"Isn't your name Pluhett?" inter
rupted the woman of { . house, who
had been studying hist features as il
trying to remember where she had
seen him before.
"No, madam" he replied, "my name
is Harris"
"You look like famiL + used to
know down near Failview. The
Plunketts were related 10 the Van
Arsdales-everybody called them Van
Osdolls-and I'm not sue but they
were second or third corsins of the
Gaddises. Ever been in Fairyiew?"
"No, ma'am. Now, thi. work, as I
was saying, contsins directions for
doing all kinds of needN work, all
descriptions Of"
swell, it does beat me! IF I'd met
you anywhere on the street I should
have been just US sure you wSre Aaron
Plunkett as I am that I'm standing
here. Your voice is exactly like his
you're about his size and heft, you
wear your whiskers the same way he
used to, and"
81 dare say. l don't think 1 ever
heard of him, though. No"
"Never heard of Aaron Plunkett?
Why, he was the man that kept o
tavern on the road to-oh, forgot.
You said you were never in"
"No, l never was there" broke in
the caller, becoming slightly impatient.
conu,., You vii! find il SIS KaEk .g!! and
soap"
"I've tried that. It's q good deal
cheaper to buy it. When / lived in
Fairview there was q peddler came
round one day with q receipt for max
ing toilet soap. He claimed he had sold
it TO the Suydams, and the Pumyeas,
and the Spcrlings, and the Shreveses,
and the Persons, and some of the 9TH
er neighbors, and bought it of him,
and it cost me $1.75 to make lot OF
soap could have bought for -"
"But that's only one thing out of a
thousand in this book, madam. You
can make your own confectionery"
"I've tried that, too. You ought to
have seen Sine Powelson laugh at a
lot of candy made once by following
directions in a book l can make as
good molasses candy as anybody; ~
when want the fancy kinds alwd
60 and buy 'em. It's the cheapest 4
best way in the long run"
"In this book you will learn how
make and fit children's garments-i :
"Land We haven't any child
but what is able to get their o
clothes. There's SIX of them,
they're all boys. The youngest is
teen, and he clerks in n clothing sto
He was coming home the other mig
and slipped and fell. You know
awful slippery on the sidewal s
Sprained his knee, and it swellcd I
that big was afraid il was going I
be so stiff he never corld use it aga I
l rubbed liniment and goose grease I
his knee for more /than an hour
the watch, and it got better. l 4 \
you, there's nothing like goose gre, l
when you want to take the soren u
out of swelled joint. But you =
got to be sure you have the gent !.
thing. There's lots of stuff theyi u
grease that's nothing but lard. = Q
best way is to render it out youIe u
Go and buy a goose. Pick out u =
one. 1t won't make any differ !,
how old it is, so it's fat. Takeh !, .
goose and" n
.!Madam," gasped the man wa e II
vallse, backing hastily out of thdr' II !.
81 give it up" y