The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1903-05-13
THE WAYS OF A WOMAN
when she Commences TO Clean
House.

permitted by an inscrutable ant
overruling Providence for the ap
plioation of the general law of com
pensation. Compensation is tha
law of the universe which prevent
one man from having everythin,
all the time. If man has par
tioclarly gay time in this life he il
apt to be evened up in the life t.
come. There was Dives in the par
able, who wore colored shirts anC
had terrapin for dinner every day
but later on he went to climatt
even warmer than that of Baltimore
in the summer months, while poor
Lazarus, to make amends for his
troubles in this vale of tears, wen
to a delightful watering place
Shakespeare expressed the ides
when he said that Fortune seldom
comes with both hands full-The
fickle jade may bring a thirst as dry
as Patent Office reportand deny q
drop of beer to lay the dust Every
body has something to be thank
full for and something to promote
humility. There are men who
have nothing to eat, but they are
nearly always blessed with a good,
healthy appetite and do not suffer
with indigestion. The only man
who seems to have no silver lin.
ing to his cloud is the rich man.
He passes his life in an agony of
apprehension lest his property be
taxed.
The spring cleaning evens up
things. 1t is Nemesis 1t teaches
us that the spirit of mortal should
not be proud and that sweet are
the uses Of adversely. But man
rebels against the spring cleaner.
About Christmas time he is liable
to bring home all kinds of illumin
ated notices in frames to hang
over the sideboard. over the head
of the bed, anywhere God bless
our home. "God bless our cook, Z"
'God bless everybody but the
spring cleaner" If he is
called upon to write motto about
the spring cleaner it would be diff
ferent, extremely different, from all
others. The poet who wrote that
the melancholy days, the saldest
of year, are in the autumn, when
the leaves are heaped in the hol-
lows of the vale, and SO
forth, was way off. Spring-clean
ing days are the saddest They
teach man that he was born to
trouble. he comes home from his
work at eventide and breaks his
shins over a bucket of suds as soon
as hs enters the portal. Next he
steps on piece of soap and thinks
he has broken bis neck. Then he
seeks his slippers and finds they
are gone. He looks fer his Dress
ing gown or smoking jacket. but it
cannot be found. he was reading
a book and had left it on the H.
brary table, but it has been con-
cesled. If he asks the house. clean
or, who is sloshing around with
her head wrapped in a towel where
all these things are she glares at
him with an expression about her
eyes that makes him feel mean and
cheap. 1t is the woman's hour of
retribution. She might ha 5e taken
one room per diem and cleaned up
the house SO that the man would
hardly know it was being cleaned
But this does not suit the purpose
of woman. The man to whom she
has given her troth may have been
mean to her; may have gone to the
club too often and come home too
late smelling of Gloves, salted pea.
nuts, coffee and what not; may have
neglected to take her to the play rs
often as he should; may have been
gay, in short, and she gets even
with hin in the three days of house
cleaning. She makes him wish be
had been better. If clergymen
would warn men that those among
them who are wicked-and few of
them are not-will be doomed to
live for all eternity in house
that is being cleaned, many
would repent who could not be
moved by threats of Like of fire.
There is beautiful hymn which