The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-05-07

IL seemed sh4t hs rec house ~as
Ions.
Ana brave and fms 1t ssoed-
Aaa haan+t cest = s1nE&s cwas
D, SEEMED he'd gone 10 hear an 81
DcafioHast ~ yrats
And heard not AJAX l,aglsGs
For AaStss that Riley wrots
It seemed s'sas stocks haa s.n~ ~
he nwaxhs shs> wouldn't -
And tnat ats w&~ hand ueN IS o1c~
S4ld VII I f"id p"u ~
80 May loxciy lhlaSw ike thez
Nsth pleasure Eti.sd h8# s4p-
And Iu~u-(t Wa@ ire rising htlt
That rang and walked hlun ~
/ have Is tnask al anonymous cor
respondent 1pr q itk 80 krfg valuable
advice Tor bachelors H~ saYs he IS
a ~tsachelur himself. DUs rs hr doe~nt
tell hosy ~ happened IL be one. J am
forced - concIud. that d. vas boyu
tt.at WAY. W. stuffed hAY FIR. s~ss
stoves. for his. he SAYS. And ue Haash
for breakfast
= Ike = really nutritious break
fast. hs tells me. and | get IL fnS
self in ms room When / get up ia
the morning / light - small alcohol
Lamp. which / keep IN - collar box.
and Set Il tin pail full o. water "n a.
u know now what those round boxes
are for. ~ the waN H~errtofuT" !
have supposed they We're mercy
among the gifts suitable for u man.
like fancy shaving paper pads ana
enbrofderea su@~penderS.) When
this comes 10 Il boil. he continues.
II pour "a part % IL INTO my shaving
mug. and : part into my teapot
Then place two Eggs in the pail ana
put q t-eaSpoonful az tea into the sot-
BY the time ! have finished shaving.
the eggs are boiled and the tea ~
stepped ! have uo overnight par-
atoms To make. and with a box "f
zWeiback | have 4 delightful break
fast ready withou the expenditure or
any extra time"
/ have no doubt that It's the love-
lest sort az a breakfast. "a person.
ally. | haven't any sympathy at all
for = man who II "a bachelor and
breakfasts on tea and shavlng-watsr
eggs. hope his landlady will pry
into his coilor\box the very next time
she goes upstairs.
Elizabeth Banks. the author Of "Ex-
pericnces Of a Newspaper Girl once
told me OF a thoughtful device which
Is better than even the bachelors
shaVing-water tea idea. There was an
elderly gentleman in England dur
ing Miss Banks residence there who
required a cup of hot beef tea at n
certain time every night. He required.
also. something to keep his feet warm.
so his considerable wife had the hot
water bottle filled with beef tea every
night, and when her husband wanted
his warming and sustaining drink. she
had merely to fish out the hot-water
bottle and pour therefrom the re-
CURED cupful. The elderly gentle
mans name. SO Elizabeth Banks told
me. was Gladstone.
Out in the edg of Georgetown lives
q man whose wife is-well. / don
doubt she's considerable. but II isn't
always possible to tell just whom she's
considering. For fully five years q
has INSTRUCTED her vision. but as wo-
men will-I've heard them say so
themselves-she said nothing about
it till she really couldn't stand IL
any longer. Then she began to urg
the cutting down of that tree. Her
husband objected. He had n sort Of
."Woodman. spare that tree feeling
about it. It hadn't sheltered him in
his youth, but ii had sheltered the
nursery man, and men feel in honor
bound to hang together. He protect
ed 1t. With my own ears | heard him
saw. six weeks ago. when his wife in
sisted on having the tree cut down
and he said 1t with a sort Of bull
dog determination that made me ad-
miro the strength Of his character.
cut that tree down? I'll die first"
Last week, passing that way early
one morning. | beheld that b~ulldogged
man experimenting n mental who was
choppiDg away at the tree. One isn't
always tactful so early in the morning.
50 I recalled TO him the virile words
which still rang in my ears. He
e%lanced toward the house. az one who
fears an eavesdropper. and spoke In
a low. almost cooling voicA