Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-15
HIS GOOD ADVICE
ANONYMOUS.

| Inere WASH the leaSt DIT OF marin
about Brodwaiser. He was as amiable
and well-meaning a little man as ever
wore felt insoles and a chamois leath-
! err chest protector But people in
general hardly appreciated his good
qualities. The first time that Smith
saw him ne was standing at the edge
of a roadside excavation for gas pipes
watching the deliberate movements of
a laborer who was ostensibly engaged
in throwing out gravel AS Smith APP
preached he heard. Rrodwaiser. say:
MY man, If you would grasp your
shovel with your left hand a little
nearer the blade of your implement
you would find it better fuIcrum for
the leverage of your right and be en-
abled to raise more earth with sub
stantially the same exertion."
The man stopped and looked up.
'Pfwats that" he asked
Brodwaiser repeated his advice and
the man surveyed him for. moment
or two with whitening contempt
"And to blazes wild We an yer full
cruml" he said at last. "Gwan away
home wild ye an yer beverages, We lit
10 dough-faced, lantern-jawed idjut.
TAX to me about implements an I'll
hut we in me dinner pail an kape we
there till We Earn manners, so l will.
Gwanl"
1rOdwaiser Redeemed and moved
away in silent dignity. Smith felt
c7ry Tor him and expressed his sym
1athy. oh" Brcdwaiser said, Il hard
~ expected anything but abuse. One
gets little thanks for good advice,
| notice"
1t was a windy day and before they
had got very far a sudden gust re
moved Smiths straw hat. He recov-
cred it with some difficulty and was
rather out OF breath when he reioined
Brodwaiser. The latter had waited,
and as Smith came up he said: "If
were you l would buy one of these
hat guards. They can be obtained
for a mere trife at any hat store, and
the expenditure is repaid a thousand
times by their saving of temper, to
say nothing OF the possibility of the
hat being blown beneath the wheels
Of a dray."
I've seen them" Smith said "Yo1
don't wear one yourself, l notice"
ITS unnecessary" he replied, "Ely
Eat never"
The wi2e took /. as he spoke and
sent it careerirg down the street, final
~ landing It in a puddle from whence
ne rescued II dripping with mud and
water. Smith could not help saying
that in a high wind it was a good idea
70 hold a loosely fitting hat by the
brim with a tenacious clutch, bv'
Brodwaiser seemed unconscious of the
delicate sarcasm OF the remark, so
much so that when they arrived at
Smiths front gate he called Smiths
attention to the fact that it creaked On
it's hinges and recommended the ap
plication of sweet oil as remedy for
the unpleasant sound.
He was a near neighbor of Smiths
and soon after that first meeting he
called On Smith informally, as Smith
was wedding his flower beds. On that
occasion Smith became indebted to
his visitor for two pieces Of valuable
nformation-that tobacco burned be-
meath a rosebush covered with a cloth
or something of that sort to keep in
the smoke had a discouraging effect
upon the plant parasites known as
green fly, and that a porch OF sufi-
cient width on the west front OF his
cottage would afford a grateful shade
against the rays OF the sun in the
afternoons.
He was a veritable encyclopedia Of
knowledge-never at loss for a 1T
tie suggestion on any subject Until
Smith learned that Brodwaiser was a
bookkeeper for a firm of glass import
ers he imagined he must conduct the
Helpful Hints" department of some
newspaper.
Smith overheard him in the mea.
market one morning instructing the
butcher in the art OF meat cutting.
THAT amt nothin', though" said the
good.natured butcher. with a fat smile,
when Brodwaiser had left. He's give
me pointers on preservin' eggs in their
original new badness by dippin' 'em
in lime an water. III bet he taught !
his grandmother to suck 'em. !
trimmed a sirloin for him the other
day an when | threw the suet in the
box under the counter he says: 4
sh'd think you'd use the fragments
of meat in some sort o way Std o
wastin' EN-. If you'd put the best of
'em in your sausage machine with
proper seasonin' there amt no reason
why IL wouldn't be good as long as the
meats fresh Ho! ho!"
But Brodwaiser is no more. He was
q good citizen. a good nelghbor and a
kind of fussy husband and father. He
died last spring of pneumonia. A lit
tie before he passed away the doctor
happened 10 cough to hide his emo
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