The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-07

| her teeth and began to hammer. 1t final.
! ly shattered the plastering and dropped
| into space on the other side somewhere
Did you ever?" exclaimed Annabelle
| glaring at the hole in the wall.
TRY to strike a joist,' said the eldest
maiden aunt.
What on earth is a joist?" inquired
Annabelle, puzzled.
None of the conglomeration of rela-
| tives replying. Annabelle proceeded to
drive another nail, which went in side
| ways.
| The picture you hang there will be
too near the other one" was the first
suggestion.
1T is below the level of my eye
was another
Its not the proper picture for the
place" was the third suggestion.
why not put the Van Dyke there?
Annabelle groaned, both in spirit and
outwardly.
You are all invited to go home" she
wheeled around on the ladder and said
flourishing the hammer and holding II
high above her head like the Statue of
Liberty lady.
But the relatives were not to be
driven home thus, saying that they
would feel like criminals If they went
and left an inexperienced girl to spoil
the walls of her house by badly ar
ranged pictures, and accordingly they
arranged themselves in perfectly per-
pendicular postures in various chairs
and proceeded to look harder than ever
The third cousin now assembled the
ladder, Annabelle having deserted II
after her speech of dismissal, and drove
| a nail in the wall, which was intended
| to be near the other two already ar
ranged but which was so far away
that it wasn't on speaking terms will
| the other one.
Il wonder how they do it," sighed
Annabelle, as she saw some of the nails
| inclining toward the east and some to-
ward the west.
It's the way you hammer them
said the eldest maiden aunt who hac
been quiet for few seconds.
II did my best" said Annabelle, but
the hammer would turn to the right
when I wanted it to go to the left, and
| it hit the wall as often as 1t hit the
nail. How l do admire carpenter.
wish Id married one. The person who
invented wireless telegraphy is great
and so is the man that first thought
of an aeroplane, but neither is in the
| class with the carpenter who every
| time his hammer comes down even or
| the teeniest tinchiest little bittiest mai
| in the world, hits 1t right on the head
Finally twenty out the twenty eigh'
pictures were hung and the relatives
| all stood back and gaEed!
There are too many white mats
said one.
The pictures are all too HIGH" sale
another.
ITO many Madonnas," was casua
suggestion.
The Murllo doesn't belong in the
group at ALL" said some one else.
The portraits are entirely out Of
place." said an aunt.
And the gold frames are simpl,
horrid with the brown ones" said
| cousin.
| Have mercy! cried Annabelle, whit
lust at this psychological moment wa
Interrupted by the maid whit hande'
her note addressed to Mrs. Henri,
Won Rensselaer, Frelinghuysen Jones.
What it is?" asked half a dozen in
| ouisitive voices as Annabelle took |
from the silver tray.
ITS merely from the janitor," sh
replied, and is document to TIL
effect that one of the rules of thi
apartment house Is that
"'Tenants are not permitted to driv
nails in the wallis"
Good gracious sighed the bloo'
relatives rs that all? We thought i
was an invitation to an afternoon tea!