The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-01-25

MAKING THINGS EASY

was - AOllVu StVIes OUlSiUe were
big baskets filled with Jelly glasses,
scrubbing brushes, stoneware, toilet
soaps aud other articles ut 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 card
OF padlocks price 10 cents. He re-
membered to have heard Mrs. Class-
way say that there should he u pad
lock for the storerOOln door. Here
was all opportunity to please her aud
at the same time crafty his curiosity.
1t hardly seemed possible that IL real.
~ good paddock could be obtained fos
10 cents. but then everything seemed
SO cheap.
Chassway entered the store and q
polite young man hurried around the
counter to wait on him.
"Yes," said the young man, 1.-THE
padlocks are good padlocks-open
With spring, as you will notice, sir,
and two keys to every lock, all differ.
ent."
I'LL take one," said Chassway.
AS he spoke his gaze wandered
around the store.
Anything else, sir?" asked the
young man, insinuatingly.
Chassway hesitated 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"
''rhat seems a pretty good thing"
said Chassway, admiringly. "Iluw
much?'
"Five cents. sir. That's q potato
slicer you have in your hand-worlss
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 dandy furniture polish"
said the young man. II can specially
recommend it, because I've used It
myself. It's 10 cents bottle only.
I'd like to have you try it."
"WeIl. 1t won't hurt, suppose, to
try a BOTTLE" said Chassway. "What
are these brass things?"
"Picture hangers"
"Oh, of course. l didn't recognize
Them"
"F'ive cents Dozen"
II don't know that l need any," said
Chassway. "Still. at s cents a dozen.
guess they'll come In handy"
To summarize, when Chassway tore
himself away he paid for dozen
brass hooks, towel rack, a box OF
soap, long wooden spoon, six patent
gus tips, closet clothesrack, pair
Of rubber shoe heels, an egg beaten.
bath thermometer, the picture hang
srs, 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 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 81 gimlet. Sim
ilarly the old gas tips would not come
out without pliers. All he could do
was to tie piece of string around the
ply some of the furniture polish to a
bureau tOp-and some to his trousers.
The next day. however, he made a
special trip to the notion store and
bought a gimIet and a pair of pliers.
While he was about It he also bought
a corrugated steak mallet. Il wire dish
lrainer. q can of enamel and u paint
brush. wire potato masher, a salt
oox. a gridiron. tin bucket and q
set of casters.
That time Mrs. Chassway was ap-
preciative hut 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. 1t
was the cooks evening off, SD 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 1t around when
she wants it," he explained.
The next morning the cook said:
mir. Chassway. If it's all the same to
you, I'd like to have you take them
levilish little wheels out of inc table.
Sure, ! can't cut q loaf o. bread with
out sending 1t skatin' clear acrost the
kitchen to fetch up wild bang fer
ninst the range"
One morning as Chassway was sur
reptitiously poking into the pantry
drawers he discovered pretty nearly
the whole miscellaneous assortment of
labor-saving devices filling one Of
them-woolen spoon. nutmeg grater.
potato parer. apple corer-everything
but the hooks he had screwed into the
woodwork.
ITS just that she's cranky. sup
pose," said Mrs. Chassway soothiagly.
"She says the corer clogs and the