Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-12-18
(The End.)
A POT OF PAINT.
The Master of the House Gets the
Decorating Fever.

The Master OF the House Gets tine
Decorating Fever.
'"Tip the cat out Of that rocker and
make yourself comfortable" said Mrs.
Weeden, Hospitality. "You look kind
of used up Spring cleaning"
Mrs. Lipscombe leaned far back ana
settled the dispossessed cat in her lap.
$50 the family say" she assented,
though I think myself it's nothing IN
the world but Joe's latest performance.
Joe generally gets the painting fever
when we women get the scr1bb1ng
fever: but seems as if this season ne
took it extra hard. He bought pot OF
paint Saturday. and started in. First
he did the window-boxes and the india
rubber tree tub; that was all rlgnt.
Then he did the clothes poles. wasn't
particularly grateful when they weren't
half-dry for Monday wash; still, they're
an improvement. Then he did the two
garden seats. and got so interested he
forgot, and sat down on the one he'd
lust done while he finished up the other.
Well, those trousers were pretty far
gone, and 7 never did like check. any
way If he'd stopped there-but ne
didn't. There was some paint left, and
he was bound to use it up.
'"The girls planned long ago to have
q party and some music as soon as the
cleaning was done, and the parlor
spandy clean and fresh Twas set>for
tonight: and this noon Linda went In
to fix up. Well she gave kind of wild
screech, followed by sounds like whoop-
ng-cough, and Bessy and I came flying
to see what was wrong. Bessy gave
one look, and off she went whooping
and gurgling and giggling worse than
Linda and the pair of them kept me
so busy scolding and coaxing and slap
ping backs and ordering. Now. girls.
stopv that ! didn't really take in what
it was all about till just as they were
beginning to quiet down. Then my eyes
lit on the mantelpiece again, and, II
you'll believe it, off went, worse than
either Of them!
"You know those two plaster busts on
Tue TWO SIueS VI LlC A'AO
Fart and Beethoven, three-quarter life
size? Well, Joseph had painted those
There they perched confronting us-of
again, all three of us together, gurgling
and whooping and choking and weeping
like idiots Mozart smiling jauntily and
Beethoven scow1ng like thunder cloud,
and both Of them bright green!'
emily! MOI" burst out Mrs.
Weeden.
Louisa! Yes" rejoined Mrs. Lips
combe. "He means to bronze them
later: but when he bronzed Milton
once, the white kept showing through
in thin places, so he thought this time
he'd put dark coat under. Green is
all right, he says, because bronze is al
ways streaky with green when it's real,
so if green should show through the
bronzing it would only be more natural.
But they've got to dry before they can
be bronzed; and meanwhile they can't
be touched or lifted: and the party's
tonight! Well, as Linda says our
decorations are unique, and the only
thing to do is to take it as Joke, But
I was pretty tired this morning, and
suppose 1 really did laugh myself into
mysteries It sounds silly, but If you'd
come suddenly on two pea-green I'M
mortals-"
81 never had Mysteries in my life,"
announced Mrs. Weeden, firmly, land
I'm going to walk back with you when
you go and take a peek myself
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