Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-08-12

I simply cannot stand it to have Jane
Wadlin and here washings here"
''Nor l." replied Janet, and our wash
ing at her house will end it all and at
the same time keep Us frcm quarreling
with Mrs. Wadlin. Trust me for that,
mother. I've a scheme of my own in
mind for putting an end TO this unpleas-
ant arrangement"
Mrs. Logan somewhat reluctantly
consented to the carrying out of this
scheme" when it was made known to
her.
Although 1 don't feel sure that it
will affect Jane Wadlin as you think it
WILL" she said to Janet.
1t was about eight o'clock on the fol-
lowing Monday morning when Joe and
Jerry Hope, the sons of one of Mrs.
Logan's neighbors, appeared at Mrs.
Wadlin's with an enormous clothes
basket piled high with soiled things
of every sort. Each boy carried pill
low slip full of things in addition to
those in the basket.
Here's a part of Mrs. Logan's wash"
said Jerry, as he and Joe deposited their
burdens on the floor of Mrs. Wadlin's
rather cramped kitchen.
"She and Janet said they'd be along
pretty soon with the rest of it," said Joe.
"The rest!" said Mrs. WaGlin in dis
may, as she looked at the great basket
and the overhowing pillow slips. well,
for PHYS sake! I should think Marthy
Logan had gone to keeping a hotel or
opened up u laundry from the size of
her wash"
This conviction was deepened when,
n few minutes later, Janet and Mrs.
Logan appeared by way Of the back
streets carrying another clothes
basket full of things; and in addition
to this, Janet, carried market basket
containing about dozen glass fruit
jers.
81 know we've got pretty big wash
ing" she said, cheerily, "but there'll
BE- three OF US working together, you
know, and guess We'll worry through
it. And we thought we'd put up
basket of peaches to-day, as they've a
lot of fine ones extra cheap at Smiths
fruit store. lie said he'd send a basket
ur here by ten o'clock for us, and we
can do them while we visit"
ayes, s'pose we can," said Mrs. Wad-
lin, in a voice lacking greatly in the en-
thrsiasm she had manifested on the
preceding Monday. But 1 don't be-
leve I've half line or clothes pins enough
for all this wash
ooh, we knew you wouldn't have"
replied Janet, cheerily, $50 we brought
our line and dozens of pins. They're
in the bottom of this basket"
''But I don't think that you can
stretch lire enough in my back yard
for all these things"
NO, I don't suppose we cam" sale
Janet, "but we can dry good many
things here in the house, and there's
your large front porch; we can stretch
lots of line on it, and the rest of the
things we can spread on the grass and
hang on the fence"
Mrs. Wadlin was not woman who
cared particularly "for looks" but the
idea of her front porch being used as
a drying ground for clothes was far
from agreeable to her. Her face red
dened and she bit her lip when Janet
pulled the sheet away from the contents
of one of the baskets and said:
1--WE wash up all of our bed spreads
Of tc
of the year, and here's basketful to
begin on. Then my Grandmother Logan
is falling into feeble health, and moth
err and l intend doing all of her washing
hereafter if she don't improve, and
we've quite washing for her to-day.
But don't believe that can do thing
until I've had bite to eat. Supposing
we have a little visit over cup of tea?
And it would be nice if we could have
some of those peach preserves you said
you had been making, Mrs. Wadlin."
"Well, if 1 don't call that COOL" said
Mrs. Wadlin, when she was alone in the
cellar getting q dish of her choice and
limited supply of peach preserve. "And
such a wash as they've lugged in here,
to say nothing of putting up a basket of
peaches at the same time!"
At nine, ten and eleven o'clock Janet
proposed "a bite to eat" and when the
basket of peaches arrived she said,
coolly: "Now, Mrs. Wadlin, if you'll
lust finish this tub of bedclothes, I'll
begin on the peaches, and We'll get
lot done to-day"
Janet's naturally orderly instincts
seemed to have forsaken her that day,
and Mrs. Wadlin did not greatly ex-
aggerate the condition of her kitchen
when she said to herself, while hanging
out the second line of clothes:
"You can't move in that kitchen with
out stepping on peach stones or peach
parings, and you can't get peach stains
out of anything! And Janet Logan
must be as hungry natured as goat.
the way she wants to eat all the time!
It'll be five o'clock before we get this
wash out, and then the place will look
like it was drying ground for the
whole town! If this is what washing
with the Logans means, T think prefer
to wash alone hereafter!"
It was six o'clock when Janet threw
herself YEARLY into big cushioned
rockinr-chair in her own home. and