Willmar tribune., 1916-11-29
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By F. A. Mitchell

was gittin' on well enough, inde-
pendent as wood sawyer's clerk,
when that consarned Jim Simpson
come along and put an idea into my
head that spilled the hull business. l
had jist done my weeks washin' O. the
dishes, havin' put 'em on to the wagon
and driv 'em into the crick and mopped
'em, and was takin' out the horses
when Jim come along.
"What y been doin'T' he says.
"Washin' the dishes. Next week Il
got to change the sheets, SEEM they
hain't been changed in two months.
Saturday'll be the last day o the
month, and that's my sweepin' day."
by gum, Enoch," says Jim, that
hain't no kind O. work for a man.
Why don't y git wife to do it for
your"
II don't see," says 1, "how any wo-
man could do it any better'n I. She'd
take q lot more time about it, and
mebbe the winders would git washed
occasionally, but my opinion is that a
woman Is always kickin' up dust for
nothin'. My way O. dom it is to let
the dust git settled before disturbin' 1t
again. r can't git woman to do that"
Jim and walked to the house, and
he come in. Fact is he wanted to find
somepin to find fault with. And he
did. He said that it was the dirtiest
house he'd ever been in. When he was
goin' away he said:
"Nnoch, got a wife that when we
was first married used to stir up the
dust lot. I complained, and she told
me that If I preferred dust in bulk
rather than at retail she didn't. She
said mans place wasn't In the house
anyway when q woman was cleanin'.
So made it a pint to find somepin to
do outside when she was stirrin' up the
dirt, and when come back again ev-
erything looked spick and span, and l
got used to havin' it that away and
couldn't stand it t'other way"
Its all a matter o. habit" says.
Jim went away, but he'd put a flea
into my ear. There was a likely gal
at Bunker's farm-Bunker's wife's SIS
ter. I reckoned that I'd 60 down and
see her. Mebbe might take her In
for tho house work If she'd come. Nat
urally got to tellin' her how washed
the dishes and the other things. She
larfed and said that was very ingen
ious. She'd never thought about doin
dishes that away. And as for sweep
in, she thort my way o. leavin' the
dust to settle before stirrfn' it up again
was a good idea. Anyway that was all
right for a man who didn't know how
to do sich things without a lot O. trouble.
"Well, sot up to her for a month or
so on Sunday nights, at the end of
which time we was married and went
to my house to live. My Aunt Emily
says to me afore I was chained, says
she, "Enoch, you don't mean to take q
wife into that house o. yourn without
havin' some woman 60 into 1t and cart
away the dirt, do your And I says:
Aunt Emily, what I'm gittin' married
for is to have some one to keep the
house in order. She mought as well
begin at the beginnin'." Aunt Emily
says, says she: "Yer beginnin' the
wrong way. When a couple starts in
to keep house together they ought to
have smooth sailin' at the commence
ment. Instead O. that, you're goin' to
begin with a fine inducement for q
scrap"
was mighty feared when she said
this that I'd better have gone on az
was, but it was too late for that now.
So TUX my wife right inter the house
just ~ it was.
"Enoch," she says, take all thu
buckets and 60 out to the well and al
EN-"
1 did this, and when l came back
found that my bride had taken of bel
weddin' outfit and put on scrubbin' uni
form. That was the beginnin' Of It
The first quarter o. the honeymoon wal
given up to Z whirlwind O. dust; the1
buckets o. soap and water and Ill sort
o. dirt KILN contrivances come on
/ Int % l. was hopin' the end wat com
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