The Prescott daily news., 1917-01-12
MAKING THINGS EASY


 soaps and other articles at what im- pressed ChasSway as ridiculously low prices. The windows displayed high ly decorated china, toys, stationery and some odds and ends of hardware, among which ChaSsWay noticed a card of padlocks price 10 cents. He re- membered to have heard Mrs. Chass- way say that there should be a pad lock for the storeroom door. Here was all opportunity to please her and at the same time gratify his curiosity. It hardly seemed possible that a real ly good paddock could be obtained for 10 cents, but then everything seemed so cheap.
 Chassway entered the store and polite young man hurried around the counter to wait on him.
 "Yes," said the young man, the padlocks are good padlocks-open with t spring, as you will notice, sir, and two keys to every lock, all differ ent."
 m take one" said Chassway.
 AS he spoke his gaze wandered around the store,
 Anything else. slr?" asked the young man, insinuatingly.
 Chassway hcsitated and was lost. Let me see," he said What's this?"
 That's an apple corer," said the young man. You simply push it down through the apple and there's your core extracted quickly and neatly"
 That seems pretty good thing" said ChasSway, admiringly How much?"
 Five cents, sir. That's potato slicer you have in your hand-works this way-for Saratoga chips or any vegetables you want sliced thin. Ten cents"
 "I'll take one of them," said Chass- way.
 That's a dandy furniture polish" said the young man. 'I can specially recommend it. because I've used it myself. It's 10 cents a bottle only. I'd like to have you try it."
 Well, it won't hurt, l suppose. to try bottle," said Chassway. "What are these brass things?"
 Picture hangers"
 "Oh of course. didn't recognize them"
 Five cents a dozen."
 q don't know that l need any" said Chassway. "Still, at 5 cents a dozen, l guess they'll come in handy"
 To summarize, when Chassway tore himself away he paid for a dozen brass hooks, a towel rack, box of soap, q long wooden spoon, six patent gas tips, closet clothesrack, a pair of rubber shoe heels, an egg beater, a bath thermometer, the picture hang CTS, furniture polish, potato slicer, ap- pie corer and the paddock.
 He exhibited his purchases with pride when they arrived that evening and Mrs. Chassway, after the first shock of surprise, was delightfully."- ap- preciatiye. The cook cast a cold eye upon them and merely sniffed
 That evening Chassway went out into the kitchen to put his screw hooks in appropriate places. He found that the woodwork was too hard to get them in without a gimlet Sim ilarly the old gas tips would not come out without pliers. All he could do was to tie a piece of string around the wooden spoon and hang ii up and ap- ply some of the furniture polish to a bureau top--and some to his trousers. The next day however, he made q special trip to the notion store and bought gimlet and pair of pliers. While he was about it he also bought q corrugated steak mallet, a wire dish drainer, Il can of enamel and a paint brush wire potato masher, a salt box, gridiron, a tin bucket and a set of casters.
 That time Mrs. ChassWay was ap- preciative but not as intensely so as the day before. ChassWay took off his coat, put in the patent gas tips and the screw hooks quite successfully. It was the cooks evening off, so he took advantage of her absence to invert the kitchen table and put the casters in it's legs. "They will make 1t so much easier for her to move it around when she wants it," he explained.
 The next morning the cook said "Mr. Chassway, if it's all the same to you, I'd like to have you take them devllish little wheels out of me table. Sure, l can't cut loaf O bread with out sending it skatin' clear acrost the kitchen to fetch up wid bang fer ninst the range"