The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1918-05-10
GOT HIM STARTED
Wife's Conversation May Have
Been for Effect.
While She DepIored the Average Mans
Lack of knowledge of Tools He
Evidently Had Been Doing
Some Thinking.

The woman put down the magazine
she had been reading and addressed
herself to the family in general.
There" she cried, at says exactly
what 1 have been thinking for ages
and ages and never had sufficient sense
to write about"
"What is that?" inquired her hus-
| band sleepiIy.
ct says that boys should be pre-
pared for matrimony exactly as girls
should" replied the woman. at says
that they should have a course of
training in putting up pictures, in do
ing simple repairs to the plumbing, in
taking care of the furnace, In hang
ing curtains, making shelves and do
ing other carpentering work, just as
girls should be taught how to cook
and keep house."
At this her husband looked self-con-
scious and he resumed his reading with
an ostentatious air Of absorption, so
that his better half was fain to con-
tinue her remarks to the more recep-
| tive sister who sat by.
ESPECIALLY when one lives in the
country should husband have had
some manual training" she went on.
"For instance, last week we found 1t
impossible to turn off one of the spig-
OTIS that fills the bathtub. A full
stream of water ran from it all day.
I telephoned Walter Of the tragedy,
and he replied that was not to bother,
for he would TX it as soon as he came
home.
"When he reached home that even
ing he found that he could not do any
more to check the water than I had
done, and so he sent a plumber out
from town the next morning.
The plumber examined the leak, said
that the washer on the spigot had
worn out, and that if would give him
a washer he would repair it at once.
But l had no washer what is a
washer, anyway? And so he had to
go back into town to get one. He
returned two hours later, put on the
washer, stopped the leak and sent us
a bill for ST."
"But it was a peculiar sort of
washer" interrupted her husband
apologetically. "If it had been just a
plain washer could have done it."
His wife disregarded this explana-
ton. "Then the laundry tubs became
stopped up" she went on, "and though
l worked at them with a hatpin and
the poker, I could not open them. The
plumber had to come out from town
again. He brought with him a long
stick with rubber cup on the end of
1t, placed this cup over the vent in the
tub, pressed, and 10 all was well. The
bill for this piece of work was $3.50.
ii wanted a simple shelf put up in
the bathroom and the carpenter who
put it up charged $3.50 for that job.
The door leading to our side porch
had not been locked for year because
no one in this family can move lock.
Sometimes I wish that I had married
a carpenter or a plumber. 1t must be
lovely to have a man who can use
tools constantly in the house."
And as for the woman's husband, he
put aside his book impatiently and
arose. "Well, get me the nails and
the boards and a hammer and I'll make
that window box for you that you've
been pining for" he said. 'Ill show
you that I am as good as carpenter
any day in the week. k."-Providence
Journal.