The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-16
MAAI HILDA L,ApSoNSANS,
ut they aren't al'ysE agreeable, seems

but they aren't al'ysE agreeable, seems
it,
Il dunno how folks ID keep track of
what they've got If 1T WASH t for house
cleanin'. When you're gettin's some thin'
new all the time, seems if you forget
bout the OF. A body never does know
how much he has till he moves or cleans
house, for thin gss Keep accum latin It'll
YOU don't know Wher they came from an
what they're. for. ssEN Mrs. Jarvis has got
all the letters she eyer received in a trunk
In the attic noW,ssan T. think she'd be
Willin to pay any one a, good price for
goin' and takin' EN- away thout sayin'
anythins to her. It's some Women's nature
to rsgather, an. some to. throw away, an,
seems if, a5middlin disposition d be
boutsperfee'. ms b; ~
Men make considerable fuss bout how
uncomfortable housecleanin' makes 'em,
an to hear EN- tai sometime s you think
t. a. woman couldn't be happy 'thout She
could sit on top Of a step ladder, in dan
ger of fallin' into, a pail Of dirty water,
all day an wipe down walls an moldin's.
There's diffren kiI,s Gof happiness for
diff'ren' folks but II don't know many
women It think it's fun to walk 'roun' tn
dust cloth in their han s. But you can't
be clean 'thout cleanin' an as Mr.. Matt
Ian said when Mrs Nathan bought a
holes on the way home, What's worth
havin' IS worth payin' for says he.
It's prism What comes to light when
You re scleanin' cut closets an attics. Mrs.
{ Graves foun' three letters In the pocket of
= Mr.. Graves las summer suit he'd forgot
to mail for herand Mrs. Lamb never
Knew what became of her recipe for fig
ice cream TIL she was emptyin' out her OF
& piece bag. - II. -
Mrs. Henry was teliin me bout some
woman who hadn't cleaned her attic for
ten syears{Y an when she went. thru a box
Of OF 5paress She fouu some stocks It she
sol for thousal's an thousan S o. dollars
= There an. OF portfolio of fathers in
s that Oh trunk that's full of papers, says
she to me- says she; dunno but what II II
look thru il. 7 We a1'ys meant to, an you
can ever tell, says she, a -lookin' at me
as if she wanted megto promise her she'd
& fin a mil lion dollar bill anyway.
= That true, says I, an it was, for
there ism t anythin' so strange but whatsit
couldn't happen. ~ Wou1dn' t have believed
It the Sloan baby could have fallen out o,
the secon' story window 'thout breakin
the cracker he had In his han it I'd read
it in the newspaper. but when Mrs Sloan
mus be true. 81
So when Mrs Henry went up to thu
attic 'th me, g helped her to get out ths
. portfolio It@was fun Of papers, but they
weren't what she'd hoped for an. sf,
& fuln' out e good many thing bout thu
family she'd never heard. Her pa an ms
died when she was alittle girl, an. she wa:
brought UP by an uncle an other folk!
never takesthe same int'res' you do in you
family htst'ry, seems if. She learned VIII,
her pa an her uncle Joseph weren't OF
speak1n terms for three years an t th,
lace collar her Aunt Fannie wears be
longed to her nfotheran It her father one
11<arSS H.. -
paid. When she'd read all of these In
. t'restin' stories t made her feel like tele
phonin to- her Aunut Clara she wouldn'
come over for dinner that night, as She,
{ planned, but she didn't see any money o
bon ssnor SO much as a postage stamp :
hadn' q Been used. When you go tol ookin
for fdgtuA YES, why you're jes as apt to fir
,mfsfortu1AB. seems it, ~ 3
It was in Glenn S attic t we four
somethin worth .havin' Mr.. Glenn's Aun
y Mary broke up housckeepin' three year
ago an gave her silver;-to put in tn
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