Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1917-05-02
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making Things EASY


big baskets filled with jelly glasses,
ScruDbing brushes, StoneWare, toliet
soaps and other articles 1T what M
pressed Chassway us ridiculouSiy low
prices. The windows displayed high
ly decorated china, toys, stationery
and some odds and ends OF hardware,
among which ChasSwuy noticed caro-
of padlocks price ~ cents. lie re-
membered to have heard Mrs. Chass-
way say that there should be q pad-
lock for the stOrerOOm door. Here
was an opportunity TO please her ana
at the same time crafty his curiosity.
1t hardly seemed possible that real
~ 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 Il spring us you will notice, sir,
and two keys to every lock, all differ
ent."
I'll take one" said Chassway.
AS Ire spoke his gaze wandered
around the store.
Anything else, sir?" asked the
young man, insinuatingIy.
Chassway hesitated and was lost.
"Let me see," he said. whats this:"
That's an apple zcOrer," said the
young man. You simply push it
down through the apple and there 5
your core extracted quickly and
neatly"
THAT seems a pretty good thing"
said Chassway, admiringly. "HoW
much?"
give 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. Il can specially
recommend it, because I've used it
myself. It's 10 cents 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. l didn't recognize
them"
Five cents q Dozen"
81 don't know that need any" said
Chassway. "Still, at cents dozeu,
l guess they'll come in handy"
To summarize, wien Chassway tore
himself away he paid for dozen
brass hooks, a towel rack, box OF
soap, long wooden spoon, six patent
gas tips, a closet clothesrack, a pair
of rubber shoe heels, an egg beater,
bath thermometer, the picture hang
ers, furniture polish, potato slicer, ap-
pie corcr 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 a gmet. Sim
ilarly the old gas tips would not come
out without pliers. All he could do
was to tie Il piece Of string around the
wooden spoon and hang it up and APP
ply some of the furniture polish to a
bureau top-and some to his trousers.
The next day, however, he made
special trip to the notion store and
bought a gimlet and pair of pliers.
While he was about it he also bought
a corrugated steak mallet, wire dish
drainer, q can of enamel and i paint
brush, wire potato masher, q salt
box, q grdiron, tin bucket and
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. 1t
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 it 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
devilish little wheels out Of me table.
Sure, | can't cut loaf O. bread with
out sending It 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
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