The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1896-01-16
TO MAN AND HELPER.
THE MEANING OF A FAMILIAR ITEM
WELL KNOWN TO WOMEN.

How Sam Patched the Wall Paper and
Fan Acted as Heiper--Adam and His
Agricultural Pursuits In the Garden Of
Eden Painted by a Modern Eve.
That too familiar item ON our plumb
er's bills, ITO man and helper, us ex-
pressive Of so much in our daily domes-
tic relations that one almost forgives the
plumber the gift Of the phrase.
"I'll patch up that paper ON the wall ;
you leave it, says Sam. And then Sam
appears ON a day when you are in the
thick of some particularly absorbing
household task and he says: "I've come
up early TO mend that paper, and il
You'll Just make some paste for mo.
please, I'll go at it." You sigh. but do
il cheerfully, thinking. If it is early in
your married life, that that will be all.
Presently. however, there is demand
for rags, stepladder, pail and whisk
broom. These also you get out and re-
turn 10 yonr work.
Fan" calls Sam. where have you
hidden my brushg Ii was in the toolbox
right in the left hand corner, aud it is
gone Some one must have taken ii. /"
Again you leave your task and go up
stairs or down stairs to the place whence
cometh the plant and behold the brush
little to the northeast pcrchance, but
quite in the visible neighborhood Of that
little left hand corner. without even
blush Of shame he takes IL. and you re-
turn to your own work. You have bare
ly begun again, when Sam appears at
the door Where can find a box the
right size to set ON the stairs, so that l
can put some boards across on which to
stand the stepladder."
You think minute. and you know
that the only box available is one filed
with odds and ends of needful kitchen
things. but you resignedly lay them all
out ON the floor and give Sam the box,
catching at the same moment look
which reveals that he is about TO ask
you for the boards. There are only two
long boards on the premises, and those
form walk in the backyard. Still they
can be taken up, and they are-but it
entails vigorous brushing and cleansing.
Then for time Sam vanishes. and all
is serene, but not for long. There are a
clutter of boards and notes of masculine
trouble, which you ignore, until, find
ing that it is not a day for taking
hints, Sam calls again, Fan, will you
please come and steady this thing, or
III break my neck . OF course you 60,
and of course yon find that he has not
already broken it. You get odds and
ends of things together to even up and
strengthen his rickety scaffolding, and
then you sit on a step with your head
MP 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,
To man and helper, three hours" and
get your revenge, for Sam really secs
the point.
Now, it is a strange thing that it is
always imam and helper" If woman
undertakes anything. as a rule she goes
ahead and gets her things together and
does itall by herself. but if man starts
any task not in the line Of his ordinary
business he viii manage to draw to
1AItrrlA t2lt aae1cAdALG VA CtCt1 MOln1t
within call. Ii it is driving nails, some
one must hand the nails 10 him; wom-
an would keep them in her pocket or
mouth. If he is riyeting something, the
woman must held the other hammer on
the under side and get in her arm the
jar Of the stroke Ii he even mends his
fishrod or ties his flies, she must hold
@txs,~ tt~-r.oI tr.xr he - ~-s<h
both hands. / do not see how any mar
ried 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 in 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 cut TO sow his rad
ish seed and having nobody to ask how
far 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 Of
helper" that Of the gardeners helper
is the worst Ii is easy to imagine her
her days work over, as she supposes--
planning for quiet rest upon cool
green bank through the long summer
twilight. Along comes Adam, beIated
in his work. because he had been cast
ing his line from shady hooks into deep,
NOISY pools. where the speckled front
are lying. and be says TO Eve: my
dear, won't you come along with me in
TO the gardenf ] haven't seen anything
of my darling all day. You can sit on q
nice soft stone in the path while ]
work" And poor. easily beguiled BY
love Eve gets up and follows right along,
but. alas, the stone has not changed it,
nature any more than Adam has Il il
not soft, and perhaps that is the reason
why Adam does not keep her sitting
there long. Good, kind Adam! He
wants the rake. and it is down at the
house, or maybe IL was bower, and she
may as well bring along a measuring
line, Of which also she may hold one END
when she gets back. And then as Adam
gets absorbed he absorbs more and more
OF Eve. She rakes up the weeds which
he has hoed out. She holds up the vine
which be ties 10 the trellis. She trotl
back and forth for the primitive nipple
ments. and she smiles, as if she enjoyed
it. but it is weary woman who, a
dusk yields TO darkness, accompanies
Adam to the house. Juggling numerous
odds and eEds 1t is her compensation
as she greets Abel and his wife, who ar
waiting for her. to hear Adam tellin,