The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1907-11-05
Perhaps She Meant "Bungalo."

Ip.I1d1S SnC Meant 'buI1SlIO.
SO many things that turn out to be
true are aid entirely by mistake. a
certain Mrs. 3. was talking to Mrs. C,
the other LAY about a new house the
DIS are building somewhere IN the
suburbs-at Chevy Chase, J think.
What kind Of a house is it," asked
Mrs. c. rs = Queen Anae OF colo
nial:"
Its neither" answered Mrs. E.
IT'S more what you would call a
boomerang"
Talking about houses reminds me Of
a story a Sabbath school teacher tells
about my young friend Gertrude. Ger
trude at eight is as practical as most
folk at eighty; though to speak by the
card. most of us give nv trying to be
practical before we are eighty. and
Gertrude's family has lately been 60
ing through the agonies of house
hunting. In the Sabbath School les
son occurred the line, I'm my Fathers
house are many mansions"
Sabbath school is q new thing to
Gertrude, but houses aren't. She
pipeG up eagerly:
and have they plenty Of closets?'
Peroxide as q Steriiizcr.
I sometimes question whether the
higher education isn't a bad thing for
The highest education, it
seems to me, might be advantageous,
but a smattering Of many things up
sets a woman far more than If she'd
spent her time learning to do Batten-
berg and drive in carpet tacks. Mrs.
Dash, who reads medical journals
whenever she happens to be waiting
in her physicians ante-roonl. met me
the other day with a parcel in her
hand.
she. but maybe they wont. Lots of
women have hair that color, but
shops are so NEAR ] bought me a lot
of puffs to pin to my top hair last
week. and. of course, I knew the hair
in them had probably come off the
dream of wearing them loaded down
with germs that way, and l didn't
want to ruin them by baking them.
They just had to be sterilized, and I
remembered something I had read
once. washed them In peroxide Of
hydrogen, and just look at the color
they are now
New Use for street Pianos.
I've found out what street pianos
are good for" says a young matron.
For the past fortnight we've had men
in the house papering and mending
plaster and painting You know how
they do. They promise by the seven
stars Of the North and the Dog of
Egypt to be there at 8. At 9 q man
and a boy come, and the man sits
around and smokes while he sends
he boy back to Alexandria for some
thing he's forgotten. By TIE time the
boy gets back it's half past eleven. 90
they call it a mornings work and
CONS back about the middle Of the
afternoon and put a lot = buckets and
things into the bath-tub and go away
again. Unless you have VI bath-tubs
YOU can't have but one set OF Workmen
in the house at a time. Its their union
rules. I suppose, though last Monday,
when / really did want a lot Of things
washed, the kalson1iners used the sta.
tionary tubs. Day before yesterday it
seemed tic me | couldn't stand things
a minute longer; there we're the paint
ers doing the woodwork in the "a in
those long, slow, extraordinarily
strokes, and 1 was in a desperate hurry
to get that place n One OF the
painters began to whistle some sort
of a dirge, and they kept time TO that
until a street piano came along and
began a two-step. Within five min
utes I had that piano hired to stay
out in front all day and play nothing
The painters kept time to it, and they
worked faster than any lot Of work.
men l ever saw. They daubed the
floor q little. but I didn't mind that I
wanted them to finish the job. It was
keeping time to a rag-time piece that
made. them spoil the floor.
Patl1os in the Safe Deposit Vault.
Once in awhile" says a man who
owns stocks and bonds, when I've
been going to my safety deposit box
I've met in the vault an elderly woman
very richly dressed. Her box IS 70,
far from mine, and it is a large one.
I've always happened to meet her as
she was coming but The Waterman
told me long ago that she comes at