The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-07-25
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MAKING THINGS EASY

1t was notion store. Outside were
big baskets filed with jelly glasses
scrubbing brushes, stoneware, toilet
soaps and other articles at what i'm
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 caro-
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 an opportunity to please her and
at the same time crafty his curiosity
1t hardly seemed possible that a real
ly good paddock could be obtained fol
10 cents. but then everything seemed
30 cheap.
Chassway entered the store and 8
polite young man hurried around the
counter to wait on him.
YES" said the young man, 1.-THE
padlocks are good padlocks-oper
with spring, as you will notice, sir
and two keys to every lock, all differ
ent."
"I'n take one" said Chassway.
AS he spoke his gaze wandered
around the store.
Anything else, sir7" asked the
young man, inSinuatingly.
Chassway hesitated and was lost
LET me see," he said. whats this? I?
That's an apple corer," said the
young man. "You simply push Il
down through the apple and there's
your core extracted quickly and
neatly
THAT seems q pretty good thing,
said Chassway, admiringly How
much?"
Five cents, sir. That's q potato
slicer you have in your hand-works
this way-for Saratoga chips or any
vegetables you want sliced thin. Ter
cents"
"Pll take one Of them," said Chass
way.
That's a dandy furniture polish, y
said the young man. II can specially
recommend it, because I've used II
myself. It's 10 cents a bottle only
I'd like to have you try it."
well, it won't hurt, suppose, tc
try a bottle" said Chassway. "What
are these brass thingsT
picture hangers"
"Oh, Of course. I didn't recognize
them"
Five cents q Dozen"
II don't know that 1 need any," said
Chassway. "Still, at cents q dozen
l guess they'll come In handy"
To summarize. when Chassway tore
himself away he paid for q dozen
brass hooks, a towel rack, q box OF
soap. a long wooden spoon, six patent
gas tips. a closet clothesrack, a pail
of rubber shoe heels. an egg beater, g
bath thermometer. the picture hang
ers, 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
preciative. The cook cast q cold eye
upon them and merely shifted.
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 dc
was to tie a piece of string around the
wooden spoon and hang it up and ap.
ply some of the furniture polish to .
bureau top-and some to his trousers
The next day, however. he made q
special trip to the notion store and
bought gimlet and a pair of pliers
While he was about 1t he also bough,
a corrugated steak mallet, wire dish
drainer, n can Of enamel and q paint
brush, wire potato masher, q salt.
box, gridiron, q tin bucket and q
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. I,
was the cooks evening off, so he took
advantage Of her absence to invert the
kitchen table and put the casters in
its 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 ia
you. I'd like to have you take them
devilish little wheels out of me table
Sure, ! can't cut loaf O. bread with.
out sending 1t skatin' clear acrost the
kitchen to fetch up wild a bang fer.
ninst the range"
One morning as Chassway was sur.
rephtiously poking into the pantry
drawers he discovered pretty nearly
the whole miscellaneous assortment OF