Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-12-13
MR.. AND MRS. BOWSER.

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Go You remember SAYING the otheF
day mat the back bedroom up stairs
needed repapcring?'
Yes, said 50.
And You asked me to speak to a
paper hanger about it,
Mr.. Bow>er" she exclaimed, have
you gone and bought paper for that
room without my seeing it ~
81 have bought the paper for the
room, madam, | didn't propose to
have YOU trotting down to the store
every day for SIX weeks to select and
purchase five rolls of wall paper"
But IL wanted to select it."
eyes, presume so, but the paper
is here before you. Instead OF being
six weeks about it | selected it in
about three minutes. There it is, and
how do you like it ~
"Why. Mr.. Bowser, its almost
black" she gasped.
Certainly. preferred dark pa
per-"
And its hall paper.
Yes, you could put 1t on hall II
you wanted to, but we shall put 1t on
bedroom. Isn't It artistic?
1T Is simply irlghtiul.
That's as one has been brought up,
Mrs. Bowser. As you were born and
reared IN log house, with frog pond
in rear and backyard IN front, OF
course you know nothing about art
IL the pattern portrayed yaller dog
chasing wall-eyed cat through cab
bage garden, you'd probably go into
ecstasies over it,"
"Who is going to put it on the
wall?" asked Mrs. Bowser, deeming i,
polite TO ignore his sarcasm.
"A chap about my size"
"But you-you-"
"Stop right there, Mrs. Bowser. !
am not going to pay paper hanger
$50 or $40 and have him around the
house for fortnight to do what can
do in two hours. I'll put this paper
on the wall as If it grew there. and I'll
do it this very evening. You lust tell
the girl to make ME a pan of paste
and then sit down and fold your
hands or stick YOUR nose in a novel.
You won't be troubled in the slightest.
I'll get the stepladder and change nv
clothes, and if don't make as neat a
lob of it as as YOU ever saw III eat NV
hat"
"Mr. Bowser," said Mrs. Bowser. as
she accompanied him to the loot OF
the stairs, "can't prevail upon you
to let me see to that room?'
"Why should leave that room
alone? 1t needs repaperIng. l can
do it. l need the exercise. | can
save money enough to get me new
fall overcoat. What is the matter
with you, Mrs. Browser?"
Something will happen-and you
you will get mad and blame me
and"
"That will do, Mrs. Browser! just
get out your novel and sit down to
read! Nothing will happen, and nc
one will get mad, and the work will
be finished by 10 o'clock"
He ran up stairs, and she turned
away to give instructions 10 the cook
to make the paste and carry it up. A
quarter OF an hour later Mr.. Bowsel
was at work. He cleared the room oil
all furniture but the bed, cot an old
table out of the storeroom to paste on
and when Mrs. Bowser looked in on
him he was Just FASTING his first strip
on the wall.
"You must have guessed at the
length OF the strip, for it's six inches
Short" she observed.
Do you know anything about the
business OF paper hangingw he de-
manded as he looked down upon her.
"No, but any one with half an eye
can see that you haven't got that
str;n plumb up and down."