New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-16

Suburbanite's for the summer | had no
idea. Homer. you knew how TO make flower
boxes ="
"Oh that's quite the best thing do re-
rlied MIR. J. with a grin. There's really
nothing to #. though. All you've got to
do is to take a box. cut it down to the re-
quired height. length and width. paint II
and-there you are, I'll get 10 work right
away-but think I'll move everything up
on the back porch where it's cooler
Forthwith the things were moved. That
IS with Mrs is assistance. for there never
yet lived a man who could fix anything
around the house entirely without his wife's
being there to pass him the needed imple-
mentS.
with equal verify IT is not on record that
q wife can watch her husband putterins
around without offering suggestions as to
how II should he done Nor was Mrs. j.
, the exception.
why don't you hold the board tighter,
Homer" she suggested as Mr. J. struggled
with a refractory nail he was attempting
to withdraw
Mr.. J. scowled
why don't YOU ask me why don't put
my feet on ito" he retorted
Mrs J.. properly squelched. retired to
one corner Of the porch.
Where's the saw. asked Mr.. j. present
~. Strengthening his bent back and wiping
the perspiration from his dripping brow.
Saw" repeated Mrs j. I'VE haven't
any saw"
Haven't saw. For the love Of Mike
How do YOU expect me 10 make flower
box without a saw, What am I going to
do-tear the wood apart with my hands or.
I dare say. bite 1t in two? Honest YOU
women are beyond me, Here you've been
asking me to fix these things for the last
, two weeks-and you haven't provided
/ 49,"
"But ! didn't know you would need ono.
| Homer Mrs. J. demonstrated gently. very
! gently. 81 never dreamed you would make
flower boxes. Just wait n minute and I'll
borrow one from next door"
| She returned with It In few minutes
and Mr.. J. set to work
He sawed and he hammered and he ham,
mered and he sawed and-yes, he swore
several times. too-until the neighbors on
| both sides and across the way come out on
their porches to ascertain the cause Of the
. noise. But Mr.. j. let them look on until
satisfied and kept steadily at his work
Now gentle reader, the making of flow
er box is no easy task for man whose
means of livelihood is the counting OF
money I'm a bank Therefore, be It stated
| when Mr.. J. picked up. the first of his fin
| ished products 10 examine II and discovered
! that every last nail had come through"
On the other side, he seized 1t in both hands,
/ ,1Ic 4,
the floor Of the porch.
Flower boxes. :" he cried Don't you
ever ask me to make you any moro flower
boxes. Blossom! No saw. nails. no any
| thing yet I'm supposed to make EN-"
Mrs J. tried her best not to laugh.
"If remember rightly. Homer" she said
gently-very gently-"you suggested max
! Jig them yourself"
Did /? Well believe me. it was only
| to please you, Hereafter we'll pay to have
'em made. Who'll ask you-who could
drive one of those COMPOUNDED crooked
nails out of those old boxes straight? No
body"
II think I could-it simply means n lit
Ito patience, Homer" replied Mrs. j. And
she picked up one to show that she could.
But Mr.. J. had no intention OF witness
Ing the demonstration. He flung down the
hammer. gave the box a vicious kick and
bounced into the house-boiling all over
And when Mrs. j. brought finished box
the work OF her own hands-to him an
hour later he merely looked up from his
paper. scowled and remarked gallantly:
Il don't see what you want 'em for any
way-they're a nuisance And If you think
I 7 70 1o,
mighty much mistaken. | never did like
the darn things. any way!'
CARVEL CALVERT HALL.
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