The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-09-11

20 make over her CARPET Seems she wanted turn
ou a hs ~hs1e don't show don't say =.
the idea wasn't good oneIahhoush rs come pretty
dug IN the aeis las, night an ripped the widths an set
down this mornin. Her story IS as she turned
the duck out to pasture rgn. after breakfast TINS morn
bean until about ten O'Clock Then she felt most awful
tired from the Iipp'n an yesterday an all SO she
done up the carpet an gettin out was hard SO she
thought she'd just lay back the floor Seems she lay
back suddener she really intended an she hit the
floor she took.
She give yen, an she she kept sivin' yells
words tell how awful for every yell sent
pain like barbed wire lshtenin forkin an knhn all
smith was shoeng mule on one side Of her an Gram
ma Mullins and Lucy dscussin Hiram the other
soa whs .
Hiram I'll take my Bible oath as when Granma Null
Inns an Lucy gets discussin Hiram they couldn't hear
Penelope out of circus not il il settin
full tilt right their very door-mat So poor Mrs
Macy laid there an hollered till Mrs Sweet came for
Mrs Sweet says the shock she got when she opened
the door her with the carpet on her was enough
She says she thought at first Mrs Macy va.
tryin to take up her carpet by eraTlin under Il an
her face up. an o course no Christian d ever
crawl under carpet with her face up So she asked
an open she didn't know mkot the matter. Then
Mrs Sweet work and tried to set her up. An
She says she erked her by the an by the legs
an by the head an her bowls only grew awfuler
an awfuller. Mrs. Macy says her agonies
rble every time she slid little along an she begged an
prayed for her to go an get young Dr. Brown. So
finally Mrs Sweet door an separated Lucy an
Gran'ma Mullins, an Lucy went for young DR.. Brown,
an Gran'ma Mullins an Mrs. Sweet went for Mrs.
Macy Oh, N.Y. but their story is they jerked hard
them for they wanted her to be respectable bed .fore
he came but it use. an he bounced IN an fell
Mrs Macy an the before his got used
to where he They had to help him up an then he
had to go the kitchen an dnfect his bump before he
could take look at Mrs Macy. But seems he got
around her last and felt her pulse, an then he'd
forgot his kaleidoscope, he just pounded her softly all
over with the tack hammer but he didn't find moth
in way for she yelled wherever he hit her. He
said then he'd like turn Xrays through her, only
as there cellar under her house there thered
be way get picture of the other side of what
the matter with her.
So he said she ssxss be got up. an although she
howled she couldn't be. he had Lucy an Hiram an
the baeksmth's crowbar an the blacksmith, an II
plain she'd have to come whether no. Mrs Sweet
says surely sight to They put the erowbar
across foostool, an Hiram jerked the other side
the time an with yell like Judgment Day they
sat her up.
"Now, what do you think, Mrs Lathrop! What do
you think? There tack sticin square in the mid
die o her back!
"Oh N.Y. but young DR.. Brown il awful mad! Mr..
Kimball says he guesses he's got suhin out o
body as he won't care to preserve in alcohol for
ornament to his mantelpiece Hiram Is mad. too. foc