The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-04-19
SPRING HousE-cLEANINo.

SPRING AoUSE-cLEANINo
Wen. goodbye. / am going away
for "a few days There was trouble
down 40 my house last night and
there is no course to pursue but to
get out and cool of and let the other
head of the family quiet down We
had ON awful row at our house last
nrsht and the old man is going
away--goihs up 10 Pauls Valley.
But as | am going to tell about It,
follow me back few days. Yon
know the warmth of balmy spring
/ weather affects II woman strongly
and seriously As soon rs things be-
gin to warm up she warns up and
proceeds To tear up the place and teai
/ up everybody who offers any objcc-
/ tion to her tearing up process.
When | got home last Thursday af-
| tcrnoon. | said to my little girl who
comes out to meet me somewhere
about the front gate said. Where
You all going to move?"
Beds and beds and mattresses were
piled on the porches. and across the
door was pair of bcdisprings. Chairs
were stacked up in the corners of the
rooms. There was no place To sit
down and no place To lay down OK
cept in the backyard.
While these operations are going
on I'm home. ;he other head of tho
family will tell YOU she Is doing her
use-cleaning. but as IA matter OF fact
she is hiding all your goods and chat
tells and personal belongings, and tor
"A month afterward you can not find
r anything. not even yourself. at night.
When you 20 To retire YOU may iind
house. but Il has been changed about
and turned around until you can not
tell which is your side of IL, and. ten
to one you will get in with your head
at the foot Waking up in the night,
, you wonder II YOU are sleeping in
your brothers ~ motherinlaw's
p house, or il YOU are a visitor in some
, friends house in the country or I'm
. some strange city.
Vt two o'clock "A. m. one Of the
: children wants drink of water AMI
. says so. and when kid says at night
/. he wants a drink of water, all Your
!. own argument. backed up by super
: natural Intelligence. can not convince
I that kid he is mistaken about il.
p. complete, when at that unoarthy hour
. at night, you rise TO get the water
=. for the little one. Reaching for the
A pitcher on the washstand. YOU gather
, up a pinCushion on the dresser, which
r. in the general miNup. snapped places
with the first named piece of furni
n turc. Now you have just about SENSE
/. enough to remember that the wo-
v men folks did recently have house
= cleaning and you, there, alone in the
4 night, try To recall where you saw
/. that washstand last. Doing the best
/. YOU can with your confused mental
A faculties, You turn to another part Ul
|. the room and fall over a huge trunk
v Missing the mark again you decid,
d you will have 10 have q light The
f matches are or were--On the dresser
p but, oh, Father. mothcrhOuso-cloaucr
, where is that dresser nov?
3 by this time you are talking say
who has been awake all IN,
4 time. rises and takes a hand tn
3. saying thingsl. why YOU crazy dear
4 the washstaud is In the dining room,
?. YOU ought to know there was no
@ place for it in our bed room sh,
l- says.
:. The devil, you say YOU remark
@ and before the thing is over you
a wonder if one more divorce suit
/. would not be- the proper thing in thi.
country
Is the dining room at the sam,
old place." you inquire innocently
a You stumble around and finally
e stumble into the door of tuat impor
@ tant room; you find in there the
n pitcher on the washstand or on thC
d sidohoard You can not swear which
@ although you are doing some pretty
@ tail swearing at that very moment
d and with the dipper in hand you
!. reach into the pitcher and carry your
n poor famished child dipper of sour
n buttermilk
/. Then what There is some more
J. talking and swearing. and you know
Z. another divorce suit will be the nrnn