Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-07-24

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time the old man walked severa
times around the table, shaking
his silver locks aud casting sus
plcious glances at the complicated
thing before him. He looked
positively frightened.
SAY, Otto,' turning to ME with
an anxious face, q hope that thing
will not explode. We read every
day dreadful stories about these
new tangled patents in the papers.
Please be careful, children, | beg
Of YOU.
'Why, father, the whole pro-
ceediag is so very simpIe;' my wife
pleaded, defending her present.
just read what it says here! |
take the water taking the vessel
with the hot water from Fannie,
'and pour it. into the boiler like
this-see, just so. 'AW! she sud
denly cried out. She had scalded
her fingers.
1t was my turn now. please step
aside I said, going ny to the
able. Let me try. You will in
lure yOurself worse with your tx.
perlmeutlng. Hand me the water,
Fannie. That's it. Thank you,
dearl AUD now I'll light the lamp.
Zounds, the stuff won't buru'
ut is prepared nonlnflammable
alchohol TOR medicinal purposes
said father.
We'll, then, send for some that
will burn,' l cried, out Of patience,
after had wasted a dozen or so.
matches IN the vain attempt to
ignite the lamp.
81 know what am going to do
am gong ia sacrifice my bottle OF
eau de cologne Fannie exclaimed
psgnanlmously. What Is the dit
ferencep
she ran of aud pretty soon re
turned with the odOrOus tdid,
emptying 1t in into the lamp after
bad poured out the 'medicated'
alcohol.
The cologne burned all right,
and pretty soon a low, melodious
singing could Ge heard, showing
that the machine was beginning TO
do Its work. My wife's countenaDce
vas all aglow. Now she was
happy; only father looked still
anxiouslike and worried.
Children, better not go near it,
he admonlshed. Only yesterday
three little girls were terribly
scaIded, you know
Pretty soon the steam seeth in
side the manchine, the cover fell
upon the lamp and the flame was
extinguisbed. l looked sideways
at my wife With a grin.
According to the recipe | said
maIiciously. 'the coffe ought to br
done now, but fail to smell the
usual aroma. Do your
Just then the water 10 the boiler
began seething aud SubbIing stroD'
ger, and stream of water shot
out of the latter into the glass tube
and thence into the bowl on top.
My, how Dice!' exclaimed my
little S.year.old brOther-in-law Fred
gleefully. For all the world like
a waterfallp
NV wife was disgusted. She
turned pale ftom subdued excite
ment and anger. what can this
meauP she said. Something must
be wrOngr
Il think your self actor extrac'
tlOn machine is suffering from iu'
ternaI troubles. There is altogeth
er too much internal business ]
ventured to remark drylY. i dare
say you are beginning to make up
SOnr mind where the best rocking
chairs are for sale, Ell, desrf
My wife looked AZ if she were
considering whether 1t would be
tho better policy to fall IN a faint.
ing fit into my arms or to declare
herself vanquished and pay the
bet, while her father continued
shaking his head until the tassel
on the top of his cap swung to and
fro like a pendulum.
'Well,' he at last remarked, this
is the funniest apparatus L ever
saw. Where is the cOffeeI when
suddenly Fannie, in her usual lm
pulsive way, cried:
'What set of fools we all are!
We forgot all about putting somt
in.'
SIRE enough. A napkin had
been accidentally thrown over the
ground coffee broughtin By Fannie
and during the prevailing excite.
ment Of expectancy nobody had
given it thought.
NY wife was delighted. Her ma
chine was TO be redeemed, after al