The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1902-05-16
A MANS DAY AT HOME.
Einl<t riots Overhauls the Household
and Fixes Up Things in
General

"Well," said Mrs. Tinkerlots to her
| spouse the other morning when he
complained of slight sore throat,
''if you're not feeling well, perhaps
you'd better take the day off and
remain at home to-day"
Believe [ WILL" replied Tinkerlots,
and he did, relates the Washington
Star.
! By the time darkness fell that
evening Mrs. Tinkerlots was sorry
she had spoken.
Tinkerlots, when he'd glanced at the
morning paper after breakfast and
! had smoke, looked over his collec-
ton of pipes and concluded that they
were in pretty bad shape. He cleaned
out the bunch of pipes with wires and
! burned them out with alcohol, and by
| the time he had finished that job the
| Tinkerlots abode was not quite as red
client of rose leaves as it had been.
Then Tinkerlots decided that the
parlor furniture, including the piano,
needed rubbing with furniture polish.
He went at that stunt with such en-
thusiasm that he tipped over the
| bottle of furniture polish on the new
parlor carpet. The polishing job ac-
complshed, Tinkerlots took it into
his head that several of the picture
frames in the parlor and sittingroom
needed regilding. He regilded them
all right, but when he got through
there were splotches of golden paint
over nearly every article in the two
rooms, and Tinkerlots himself looked
like a gilded image for sale by an
Italian plaster of paris vender.
| Tinlterlots then scrutinized the
CRATE of the kitchen range and
thought he discovered that the CRATE
needed patching up with wire. He
doused the coal fire with water until
the escaping gas made the whole
| house smell like sulphur-reffning
plant, and then he fooled for an hour
or so with TIE CRATE, with the result
that he smashed it into iron splir tiers,
and the Tinllerlots dinner was hastily
cooked on the little oil stove.
Having thus far exhibited his use
fulness around the house Tinkerlots
looked around for more mans work
to perform. 1t struck him that the
| loose photographs hidden away In q
chiffonier drawer in the second-story
front bedroom ought to frame up into
pretty neat rack of pictures, and he
started in to construct such a rack
| with wire. Then he drove several
spikes into the plaster to hold the
| oil oh Of
struction, thus chipping about half
the plaster from that side of the wall.
whereupnn Tinkerlots abandoned that
useful job.
BY way of taking a little rest be-
tween jobs Tinllerlots then concluded
that he'd overhaul the three or four
huge trunks and chests in the store
attic to see what they contained. He
pulled everything out of the big boxes
and then tired of the diversion, leay-
ing about ton of odds and ends to
be restored in the boxes by Mrs. Tin
kerlots.
After this Tinkerlots decided that
the dining-ruom rug needed thor
ough beating. While Mrs, Tinkerlots
was doing some marketing around the
corner Tinkerlots took the rug up and
spread it out on the clothesline right
alongside the weeks washing that the
servant had only put out about half
an hour before, and then Tinkerlots
dubbed the dusty rag with a broom
handle with vast energy. He didn't OBJ
serve when he had finished beating
the rug that the weeks washing
would have to be done all over again,
but Mrs. Tinkerlots did when she re-
turned, and so did the servant.
After this Tinkerlots undertook to
fix the hot water spigot 10 the bath.
room so that the hot water would flow
more freely. The plumbers still have
possession of Tinkerlots' home, and
Mrs. Tinkerlots is looking for sean
dalous bill from them.
This wound up Tinkerlots' day off.
His employer dropped in at the Tink-
erlots' abode that evening to find out
what allied him. Mrs. Tinkerlots met
her husbands employer at the door
and whispered few words to him,
with the result that the employer told
Tinkerlots that he hoped he'd come
down TO the Office the next day if he
could only barely crawl. there was so
much work on hand waiting for him.
The next time Tinllerlots is invited
to take day off at home by his wife
he is going to be in such shape that
he'll have to take to his bed and stay
there until he gets well.
| Eggs n rAurora.
Cut six hard boiled eggs in slices,
reserve the yolks Of two and set
them aside; cook in one tablespoon
fnl of fine chopped small onion, one