Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-06-16
Cleaning Time,

Sican1nH lImCs
Grid yourselves with gingham aprons, o
ye women of the land;
Pin your skirts to clear your shoe tops,
take the scrubbing brush in hand,
Boil up alkaline infusions, turn the whole
house upside down,
Slop the floors with soap and water,
needless of your husbands frown,
Yank up carpets, rugs and mating, jerk
the pictures from the walls,
Have your pals of suds where we can
stumble Ger them in the halls,
Pile the stairs till they are worse than
any Alpine sleeps to climb,
Have the regular old picnic incident to
cleaning time.
Fill the bathtub with umbrellas, books
and shoes and bric-a-brac,
Heap upon the grand piano kitchen
dishes in a stack,
Set the dinner on the mantel, though
there's little time to eat;
See that every one who enters wipes with
care his muddy feet;
Keep the windows all wide open as you
ply the mop and broom,
Have hot and steamy vapor permeat-
ing every room,
Swab and scrub and splash and spatter
in your fight with winter CRIME.
Revel in the moist discomfort incident to
cleaning time.
Have the men with whitewash brushes
spread the tinted calcimine,
Take all necessary bedding out and air
it ON the line,
Have the furniture revarnished till the
odor makes one faint,
See that all the woodwork glistens with
a coat of shining paint;
Don't have anything to sit on, sleep ON,
eat on; also frown
When you hear meek suggestion as to
''some hotel down town.;
Let the masculine complainer know It's
nothing short of crime
Not to make ones life burden in the
glad spring cleaning time.
Utica Globe.
Woman with the Smile.
Nothing Is more beautiful than a
is the CHEEKY, perpetually pleased
woman who smiles constantly and
who looks at you inquiringly when she
meets you ON the street.
There is, perhaps, nothing more ex-
quisitely painful and cordially humili-
ating to a man than to be told by a
member Of the fair sex: 81 bowed to
you on the street two or three times
lately and you would not speak to.
me-" Young men do not mind this
much, and they are seldom chided for
such churlish delinquency, but men
who are a trifie grizzled and who rush
to the barber shop frequently to be
shaved-not because the stubble is
more irritating than formerly, but be-
cause it is gray. and a gray stubble
is a tattle-tale-feel that their native
gallantry has been impeached by the
inf1rmities Of advancing years. Not
one in ten Of these men can recognize
a woman on the street, or could rec
ognizs his own wife, did she Of his
heart and home change the manner of
dressing her hair, wear a bit of un-
usual color or exploit a ribbon or a
rose in some unwonted fashion. The
result is that he is continually in mis-
cry, bowing and scraping to women
whom he does not know and who do
uOL huoW uilu, anu iSuOF1uS tie Sdlu-
tations of women whom he knows and
who are his friends.
1t would be great blessing if the
who smiles would refrain from
doing so at long range and adopt the
Did revolutionary method Of reserving
her fire until she ''can see the white of |
the enemy's eyes," Men are not as
highly sensitized and delicately ad- |
Unstable as Marconi instrument, and |
when smile is sent scurrying through |
space every son Of man reaches for it |
md tries to get a strangle or half |
Nelson hold on it.-Memphis CONNER
,ial Appeal
Refuses to Marry J. w. Young.
Because he is the father of a MUIR