Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-07-11
Economical
Mr.. B0Wser
He b Always Looking Out
to Save q Dollar.
~ N. QUAD.
Copyright 1slS. BY the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.

Mr.. Bowsef intended to perform
performance.
He had been thinking Of It ali the
afternoon.
He might 40 we'll lead up TO It softly,
however. and prepare Mrs. Bower
for II.
He therefore threw away the stump
Of his cigar and said: Sf,ea
Green was telling me today that
he never 6Ies anything around The
house."
''No?" replied Mrs. Bowser.
HE can't even putty In Z pane of.
glass;"
| II See"
| "Nor flx . doorknob."
But you know
Eyes. can az anything and thereby
save several hundred dollars year,"
But there's nothing to nx just now"
"Well, dear. there's nothing to be
done except that I am going to save
| 500 In cash and indulge In a little
beneficial exercise at the same time"
he replied.
You are not going toto tear any
Of the walls down or remove the roof
Of the house?"
mo. ma'am. Our house ia heated by
a furnace. That furnace naturally has
smoke pipe. That smoke pipe must
be cleaned out before we start fire
this fall
But why don't you get man to
do it?'
"For several reasons. First, I need
the physical exercise; second. I don't
propose to pay stove man hundred
dollars to come up here and fool around
for four weeks over what will take me
about twenty minutes, and, thirdly and
lastly, am domestic man and like to
be doing little odd jobs around my
own house."
"Mr. Bowser, please don't do I'll"
gasped Mrs. Bowser a. she turned
pale. you'll get the pipe apart. and
then-and them
And then clean out barrel or two
Of SCOT and put it together again." he
finished. I'm going to slip on my old
clothes and have the job over in half
an hour. You just sit down with the
newspaper, and you won't hear
sound"
III you'll let 1t alone I'll get man
and pay him out of my weekly allow
ance!" she called to him as he was
halfway up the stairs.
Half an hour-easy as rolling OF a
log-save hundred dollars-sit right
DOWN. he replied as he disappeared.
Ten minutes later he came down
with an old suit on. and he had in his
hands a gimlet. a screwdriver. a mon.
key wrench. a hammer, cold chisel. a
pot Of glue, glass cutter and a coil Of
wire.
why not let It 60 until Nqvember?'
she asked 40 he was ready to 60 down.
"And let the FIRST cold wave catch us
unprepared and freeze all the water
pipes" he exclaimed in answer.
mo danger"
"Mrs. B0wser. you sit right down.
and don't worry. I was cleaning out
smoke pipes before you were born. and
there's nothing In this Job to get excit-
ed over"
He had scarcely disappeared down
cellar when Mrs. Bowser went to her
room upstairs and locked the door, Mr..
Bowser lighted up the cellar and took
a good look at that smoke pipe. 1t was
twenty feet long. with one end Mt the
furnace and the other in the chimney.
and was supported at intervals by
wires attached to the ceiling.
Save just hundred dollars and
have all the physical exercise to bootv'
he muttered as he began at the wires.
There are men who run to the glazier.
sie plumber and the stove man when.
ever little job wants to be done. and
there are other men who save time and
money by taking a hand themselves.
The idea Of my getting man to put
ter around here for month or six
weeksr'
f, When the wires had been loosened
Mr.. Bowser knew just what to do
next. and he did 1t. He pulled the end
Of the pipe out of the chimney. As
soon as that had been done the Eve or
six joints fell apart with great clat-
ter. and he was instantly enveloped in
a cloud of soot and ashes. Az the
joints fell one Of them struck his foot
and as he made a jump to evade the
SCOT lie stumbled over another and
came down on the hard bottom Of the
cellar and rolled over on his back.
woman. I see how It isv' he yelled
cut In his first surprise, but the words
were hardly uttered before he got up
and rubbed his knees and elbows and
the back Of his head and whispered to
himself:
TITS oil right-all right. intended
to take the joints apart anyhow, and
this has saved me lot of trouble. It
would have taken stove man just two
weeks to do what have done In ten
minutes. It's a wonder the old lady
isn't down here to ask II there has
been an earthquake"
Mr.. B0wser cautiously picked up each
Joint Of the pipe and played tattoo
on 1t with hammer. That's the prop
er way to clean 'em. and he did as well
as stove man could have DONE When
a smoke pipe has been taken apart 1t
must be put together again to he made
useful. Fully realizing this fact, Mr..
Bowser began work. He picked up
two joints and fitted them together.
No. he didn't. To his surprise. they
wouldn't At. They were made to At.
had fitted and ought by natural philos-