Bisbee daily review., 1911-11-15

waiting for me 10 get ready 10 do something. Then when l get ready it pouDces upon re and reduces me 10 wilted rag. But. having started the painting bee, l had to keep on. be cause ws had company coming the following week
 After had applied one coat of paint Mrs. Ringsted dropped in. Mrs. Ring sted is one ot those appalling persons who. apparently, without the slightest effort on their part. know how to do everything. thereby increasing the en- yious dislike of all their acquaint- ances In this case Mrs. Ringsted threw up her hands and walled be cause had not first removed all the old finish on the furniture before be- gan painting
 She said it was very simple All you had to do was to move the pieces out Into the back yard. make a pail ful Of strong Iye and with an old brush scrub the surface The varnish. she said. would roll of like water. When inquired II my dress and complexion would do the same 1T they got spatter- ed with lye. as they undoubtedly would. she got mad and went home
 IL was still hotter the next day when put on the second coat of white paint, and. really. l was somewhat dis. couraged 10 see how the original color showed through The dresser was Q murky white. the birch chairs we're strealIy and the maple table was 1 speckled. With the worry and the heat. looked like a combination Of all three of the conditions that afflicted the furniture.
 When I turned from the dresser ] found the puppy sitting upright Tn the 1 rocking chair Ssgging his tail expect antly over It's freshly painted surface.
 When I went 10 chase him out Of the room I stumbled over the straight chair and grabbing it wildly to bal ance myself, covered my hands with is fresh surface You know when
 white paint dries on your skin it turns dark gray and has to wear Of Each successive day devoted three solid hours 70 putting on another coat Of the paint Thus l missed one pfc { pic, one matinee and one luncheon. .'ghe- family would come and stand around and tell me how much better the things would have looked had put
 in a little yellow or blue O. cerise : into the white enamel to get what they cal a tint once father absent
 mindedly sat down on a chair and stuck there. He took most of it's sur face away with him, thus making me
 lot of extra work The morning aft
 er the enamel was on found that the 1 dresser drawers were stuck tight from
 the paint on their edges. In pulling { the lower one out by main force
 vent over backward and hurt my
 head. also losing my coll of false hair
 in the open can of paint on the floor.
 When Uncle John and Aunt Sue ar | rived I conducted them 10 the guest room and gave them full directions 1 told them that on 10 account mus; they sit on the chairs. because the
 weather was so bot the paint refused
 10 harden. told them also that i they must not think of shutting the
 dresser drawers because they might
 never De able to open them again with
 out blowing ID the whole thing with dynamite and wasting my handt work
 Aunt Sue. who is a good house
 keeper of the old fashioned sort, was greatly annoyed at the open drawers and from force of habit shut the top
 one before she thought. She had to
 stay at home from B tea party given for her because all her front hair wss in the drawer and she couldn't go
 without it. Uncle John broke his pen
 knife trying to pry t open and took [ on his coat to work more easily, thrcw- ' ing it eareIessly back of him o. the rocking chair. They eventually got the coat of by soppins on turpentlne. but ' they must have been careless. for they
 ruined the surface of the chair and shall have to do 1t all over again. ' Uncle John Twas so concerned over 1 the condition of his coat that he never
 even apologized for spelling the chair
 but theE some people never appre
 ciate the little .esthetic touches that
 mean 90 much is His."