Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-02-22

They We're not made in those days"
did Marie Antoinette sleep on an
iron or brass bedstead?"
Probably not, but l wish she had to
sleep on this old thing now. How on
earth are you ever going to get it up
stairs? Even when you get it up there
it will take up all the room in the bed
ROOM"
Don't you worry about those trifes.
Ny idea is that in buying furniture we
might as we'll buy something Of his.
toric interest. If I'd had more money
with me today, should have bought q
bureau belonging to Queen Elizabeth"
81 wish you hadn't had enough to
buy this bedstead. If I'd known you
were going to do such a thing, I'd have
bought brass one yesterday out Of
my own money. If any secondhand
man would buy it,
He Is Obdurate.
What! Sell this Marie Antoinette
bedstead to a secondhand man? New.
err! His touch would be pollution. No
secondhand man should have it for
5000"
But no one would give you even a
dollar. There is no sale whatever for
wooden BEDS
But I'm telling you that this was
Marie Antoinettes bedsteadr' shouted
Mr.. Bowser as his anger began to rise.
''And who cares for that?" retorted
Mrs. Bowser.
Look here, woman, my name is
Bowser. l am at the head Of this
house. l run things. discover that we
want to throw out three-quarter bed
stead and replace it by full size. I
drop into an auction room and find a
historic piece of furniture worth 5000
going for SIS and send it home. You
kick. You even tell me that couldn't
sell it again for dollar"
and neither can you. You have Just
thrown away S15, and SIS more put
with it would have bought the bed.
stead 1 wanted
Mr.. Bowser walked down the hall
and put on his hat and overcoat
"Where are you going?" she asked.
Down to the nearest furniture store
to sell this bedstead for $25. You can
get brass bedstead on which Captain
Kidd has slept if you want to-"
After a walk of two blocks he turned
into a furniture store and said to the
proprietor:
I've got mahogany bedstead up al
the house that Marie Antoinette used
to sleep on. It's worth every cent OF
5000, but you can have it for So5."
II wouldn't give you % cents" was
the reply.
do you mean that?"
Certainly. If you have got fur
mace in your house, you had better
split the bedstead up for firewood."
But it once belonged to Marie An
toinette."
Or your grandmother
| Mr.. Bowser glared at him and want
ed to call him a sordid minded wretch
but, choking back his temper, he walk
ed out and along to the establishment
Of a secondhand dealer.
II have got wooden bedstead"- b,
began, but got no further when tn,
dealer interrupted him with:
Then keep it,
"But it's mahogany bedstead."
Might as we'll be pine"
and it once belonged to Marie An
| toinette'
"Or Susan b. Anthony. Ill draw i
away from your house for So, but no
a cent cheaper
Mr.. Bowser was red in the face whel
he passed out and along to anothe
shop, and there was a menace in hi
voice as he asked:
DO you want TO buy a mahogan,
bedstead?"
Not on your life"'
why not?"
For the same reason that l dom
want to buy any last years cabbag
heads"
will you take it and draw it away :?
Not much. You might try wood
yard man."
Mrs. Bowser was upstairs cryin
again when Mr.. Bowser returned. Sh
heard him Gathering down the celia
stairs and gathering up again. The
came war whoop and blows of tn
ak. Whoop followed whoop and bloy
followed blow, and she gave him fiji
teen minutes before coming down. Sh
found him standing amid the wrec
and ruin of that Marie Antoinette bee
stead, and the look on his face wa
fairly flendish. They looked at eac
other for a minute and then he droI
ped the ak and folded his arms an
said:
well, madam, hope you are salts
fed now" M. QUAD.
} The Point of View.
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