Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1902-01-30
HOW THEY MANAGED.
Disastrous Effects of Trying to Keep
House" in the Absence of the
Regular 0ffiCiaI.
Written For TIE News.

something that happened once upon a
time but from the first of the year 1902
up to this day. | am not wanting to
advertise my love powders for they sell
now faster than can make them. You
all know that came to Whitwell the
first of the year. went to my friend
| John Smith for board. Johns wife and
children were gone to Etna visiting
relatives. John said we could batch
until the old lady came back We
went to the store and bought some
crackers and canned goods to start on.
John and are working on the night
shift We go on at 500 p. m. and come
! off at 100 a. m. and we get homo at
two or three o'clock.
Our first two meals we got along
O. X. and then we commenced messing
up the dishes and laying them aside un-
til we got them all dirty. Knives, forks,
spoons, plates, cups and saucers and
everything else on the table all dirty
Dishpan, frying pans, skillits and pots
on the stove and all dirty. Twenty
dish rags and not one of them clean e.
nough to wipe a slop bucket with. We
patched until all and every article got
dirty and then we had to stop. So we
got to taking meals with Bob Mercier.
One day we took notion to clean up
the dishes so we brought bucket of
water, built fire IN the stove, put on
the kettle, put on an apron apiece and
paper sack on our heads. We put all
the plates into the dishpan and when
the water got to boiling held III pan
and John poured the water. Whe the
hot water struck the plates it glanced
and struck me on both hands and |
dropped the pan and broke the whole
shooting match, split water every where
and burnt us both from the knees down.
Water and pieces of dishes were all over
the floor so we put the job off for that
day,
Next day John dropped frying pan
on smoothing iron and busted the
thing wide open, and the same day
started to fill up the lamp and it eclips-
ed out of my hand ond left nothing but
a big greasy spot on the floor. John
started to bed one morning and happen
ed to think Of winding the clock. After
he had wound it up he started to take
out the key and pulled the clock over.
1t lit on it's hands and face on the hearth
and there we're enough wheels scattered
over the floor to make dozen clocks.
moved the sewing machine so / could
sweep under it and broke leg off of it.
John was busting the dresser with a
hair brush and broke the glass and a
nice big one it was too The pieces of
heavy glass fell on a vase and broke it.
was sweeping the floor and the shot
gun was sitting in the corner and | hit
it and down it came and went off and
tore picture all to pieces. 1t was one
that John had had enlarged. In falling
one hammer was broken of the gun.
John started to glue piece on the
safe that had come off and somehow
turned the safe over and there was an
other great crash of dishes. started
to pull the window shade down the 9TH
er day so We could sleep and pulled the
thing too far and down it came, and one
end of the roller struck window glass
and out it went. John came along try
ing to fix the shade up and broke ar
other out and the same day John was
winding his watch and broke the wind
ing spring.
brought pitcher of water and set
it in the bowl and broke the bottom oct
of the bowl and John picked the pitch
er up quick and the handle came off and
the thing fell to the floor and broke into
3O4 pieces. split a gallon of oil on a
5O-lb bag of flour and the dogs won't eat
it and we can't eat it. John dropped q
J dollars worth OF meat where | split the
coal oil, and we can't eat it either
Then we took a notion to make up the
bed as we had been laying on it.for two
weeks without fixing it up. SO we tool
of all the quilts and blankets one by
one, took tue feather bed of, stirred uI
mattress and got it it in good shape
Then we put the feather bed back, w
shook it abont and turned it over, bu
could not get the feathers scattered ou
right So we decided to pull the be-
out from the wall so one could get ol
one side and one on the other. So Johl
started to move the centre table an,
broke a leg off. A lamp was on the ia
BILE and il fell off and another big greas
spot was the result.
s pulled the bed out and broke 70
Il Ter off. John got on one side Of the be
n and on the other and we got hold
J, that feather bed and we made the featt
o ers fly but we could not get them righ
9 So we got them fixed up the best v
n could and quit the thing and all th
{ feathers we're in one corner Of the be-
That very day John piled up in the be
on the corner where the feathers a
we're / pulled him Of and right the
I and there we fought over that corn'
and a hard dghtitwas. We threw dis
es and pieces Of dishes and every dis