The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1909-01-07

| tNl your face and you
I hate your fellow
man and the powder you put on your
complexion resolves itself into cum
ming little marbles of dough!
anyhow, Tom and should have
known better than to rent our flat
iurhished when we moved away. Or
else | never should have come back
10 pack up the furniture We should
have let the fiat remain a glad mem
DRY in all its original glory. Then !
should have been spared the sight of
my best Bokhara rug In the passage
way between the kitchen and dining
room and my best vase being used as
an ash receiver! ] saved all my ten
cent pieces for six months to encom-
pass the purchase of that vase-and
then the tenant who wore diamonds
and said she loved 'Vogner music. said
she couldn't find anything In the
mouse she dared give her husband 10
use for ashes until she stumbled on
that cheap little colored-g glass thing
on the mantel! She said she thought.
colored glass vulgar on the whole
didn't ]?
Il don't know why 1t Is that the
most vigorously moral persons, ON
renting somebody else's home fur
nished, at once become gladsomely ir-
responsible heathens.
Still, ] think | could have stood IL
all II 1t hadn't been for the picture OF
Washington Crossing the Delaware
| didn't own 1.-THE tenant did.
| didn't even kpoU n wac L., fbe uot
was too much engaged in waiting on
the misanthropic man who had ar
rived with what seemed like lumber
yard and an excelsior factory to. crate
my own pictures for shipping.
"Mournfully ! carted them In and
deposited them about him in circle
like a funeral pyre. | felt that way
because, of course, didn't know
whether | ever should see them again
except in small fragments. This NOV
ing is so uncertain. But the packer
was good man at heart and assured
me that he would do his best.
"And he did Such layers of excel
sior, such bracing and wadding Of
corners ! never hope to see again.
dwell upon this particularly in view
OF what happened later. That man
toiled for hours--and ! was paying
him for his time. He tugged and
pounded and nailed and tied and
stuffed excelsior till finally that huge
crate was as solid as a brick.
don't believe you could have got pin
inserted In it, for there wasn't crew
Ice big enough anywhere. 1t was a
triumph of packing
Just as the man paused before
driving the last nail to wipe the sweat
rom his brow, the tenant tore madly
INTO the kitchen where we were. She
was a little woman and she hoped
around like a distracted chicken.
Where, she shrieked, where Is
ny Washington? My Washington
Crossing the Delaware?"'
The packer and gazed stupidity at
sach other. I think by this time the
excelsior had got into our brains.
dunno, ma'am, the packer stam-
nered, after staring wildly into the
sink and under the kitchen table. Is
re dog or cat?'
Don't try to act innocent cried
!
1t was my Washington that my great.
lunt brought from New Hampshire as
present the year all of us children
lad the measles and she came to
5isit pa | set it down by the radi
,tor. right here--and it's gone! You've
)ut 1t in that box and you've lust got
! o unpack it,
There was an agonized instant in
which the packer swayed Imply and
lung across that huge box like a rag.
When he got his breath he said he'd
: )e everastingly something or other II
ne did! Unless he got paid for III
The tenant had fierce eyes. | mar
T. INJURED few weak, temporizing things
, such as that | would send the picture
back after ! unpacked the box at its
destination. | even suggested buying
o her another. Thereupon she explod.
!, ed. She said | had no feelings and
that she was going TO have her origi
!, nal Washington that her revered
= great-aunt had given, and that nc
money could replace it. gathered that
1t was work of art done by an old
master and that the rest of the con
= tents of the box were dross to ii.
Beneath her gaze crumpled and
u gave the word TO unpack
II didn't watch the process 1
couldn't have stood the sight OF an
that excelsior being pried out, The
farther the man excavated the box The
;. more sprightly grew the packers Ian
4 guage. but when at last he found
/ Washington he was dumb from ex
, haustion and rage II was the very
y first picture he had packed and OF
h course was at the bottom of the box.
: Eagerly rushed to gaze on the
j. masterpiece | found could dupli
{ cate Il for so cents in any denartment