Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1906-03-02

erybody had iron or brass bedsteads
these days" replied Mrs. Bowser.
"But did Charlemagne have an iron
or brass bedstead7'
"They were not made In those days"
did Marie Antoinette sleep on an
iron OF brass bedsteadT
Probably not, but ! wish she had to
sleep on this old thing now. How ON
earth are you ever going to get II 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 tri6es.
My idea is that In buying furniture we
might as well buy something Of his
torlc interest II I'd had more money
with me today, should have bought a
bureau belonging to Queen Elizabeth"
Il wish you hadn't had enough 10
buy this bedstead. II I'd known you
were going to do such thing, I'd have
bought a brass one yesterday out Of
my own money If any secondhand
man would buy it,
He Is Obdurate.
"Whatl Sell this Marie Antoinette
bedstead to secondhand manl New
erl His touch would be pollution. No
secondhand man should have 1t for
5000"
"But no one would give you even a
dollar There is no sale whatever for
wooden beds"
s'But I'm telling you that this was
Marie Antoinette's bedsteadF shouted
Afr T1oxreo- 80 HE ov,,.or 1,o,-.,, - ,t.o
"And who cares for thatT retorted
Mrs. Bowser.
Look here, woman, my name is
Bowser. 1 am at the head Of this
house. run things. discover that we
want to throw out a three-quarter bed
stead and replace 1t by a full size.
drop into an auction room and find
historic piece OF furniture worth 5000
going for SIS and send it home. You
kick. You even tell me that couldn't
sell 1t again for dollar"
And neither can you. You have Just
thrown away SIS, and $40 more put
with 1t would have bought the bed
stead wanted"
Mr.. Bowser walked down the hall
and put on his hat and overcoat.
"Where are yoh 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 II you want to-"
After a walk Of two blocks he turned
into furniture store and said to the
proprietor:
I've got mahogany bedstead up at
the house that Marie Antoinette used
to sleep ON. It's worth every cent OF
5000. but you can have 1t for $25."
II wouldn't give you 25 cents,' was
the reply.
''Do you mean thatT'
Certainly. If you have got a fur
mace in your house. you had better
split the bedstead up for frewood."
But it once belonged to Marie An
toinette."
"Or your grandmother
Mr.. Bowser glared at him and want
ed to cah him sordid minded wretch,
but, choking back his temper, he walk
ed out and along to the establishment
Of secondhand dealer.
''I have got wooden bedstead"- he
began. but got no further when the
dealer interrupted him with:
''Then keep it."
But It's mahogany bedstead."
Might as well be pine"
And IT once belonged TO Marie An
toinettep
"Or Susan b. Anthony, I'll draw 1t
away from your house for SO, but not
cent cheaper"
Mr.. Bowser was red in the face when
he passed out and along TO another
shop, and there was menace In his
voice as he asked:
do you want to buy q mahogany
bedsteadT
mot ON your lIfer'
"Why not?'
"For the same reason that / don't
want to buy any last years cabbage
heads" -fAr
"Will you take it and draw 1t awayT'
Not much. You might try wood
yard man.
Mrs. Bowser was upstairs crying
again when Mr. Bowser returned. She
heard him Gathering down the cellar
stairs and Gathering up again. Then
came war whoop and blows of the
ak. Whoop followed whoop and blow
followed blow, and she gave him ff-
teen minutes before coming down. She
found him standing amid the wreck
and ruin of that Marie Antoinette bed
stead, and the look on his face was
fairly fiendish. They looked at each
other for a minute, and then he drop
ped the ak and folded his arms and
said: NJ
well, madam, hope you are sans-
fed nowP NJ. QUAD.