Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-02-01
VILLAGE GOSSIP
THE HURRY GIRL.

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When there is work that she must do
She gets quite in a furry.
She worries over all her tasks,
SO very hard she takes them,
She hurres round and upsets things,
Or knocks them down and breaks
them.
l often wonder why it is
She has to hurry so;
Perhaps because she leaves her work
Till it has time to grow;
And when it's very, very big
Flies at it hurry-scurry,
If she would just do things on time
'Twould save, oh, so much worry.
"A postal to the Palisadian from Mas
ter Engineer Harry Elkan, dated
LeMans, January s, 1919, bears this
interesting message: s'Sure was glad
to read of the good showing Palisade
made in the Fourth Liberty Loan
guess the old town is there. Best re-
CARDS to all.-Harry." Yes, Harry, the
ding clothes, being fourteen in April,
yet a lusty infant just the same.
An Almost Nearly Fire.
And listen, people. Don't ever be
foolish like some folks we know. Last
Sunday the Loganses they smelt fire,
or something or other burning, and
then all of a sudden the kitchen range
began to act funny. The smoke and
ashes blew all over the kitchen
through the damper Whats the mat
ter?" asked the Missus. Must be the
winds blowing down the chimney"
"Well,'' said Hubby. looking out the
window, sit amt BLOWN down the
road" And with that he blew down
the cellar stairs, and on into the laun-
dry And there, people, he discovered
something that made the marrow in
his bones run dry, or something like
that, anyway. The derned old fake
plummer who put in the new range
that had all sorts of advantages over
any the world ever saw, and which
was to put a stop to all tOting of ashes
to the cellar by nifty little piping
leading to the laundry, where there was
a receiving can like an ash can, and
there was to be top to it, but which
was a mile too big, and when the ashes
got dumped by the shaking down proc
ess upstairs in the kitchen. down
would go the ashes. and then such Il
cloud of dust! My! the place was
water if you stayed down there long
enough opening the window. And this
particular Sunday morning the fire had
gone out overnight and had to be re-
built, and all the dead Goals We're
shaken down to the laundry can. Now,
what do you suppose happened? The
wimmen folks Ono use telling which
one or both) set their heads together
to stop that flushing of clouds of ashes
dust that went everywhere when the
| ashes got a dumping, so they rugged
up nice little prevention scheme.
And the way it was did would make
You laugh, at the same time nearly
almost making you Madden a wet hen
that folks never know any bettern
that. They just got an old SKIRT,
tied it around the stOvepipe leading
from the range, took away the regular
ash can, got an old enameled pail we
used to carry water in to the ball
field, and set it on top of a wooden
box, then dressed the old skirt around
it SOS to let the ashes all go into the
ash can, and there you are. 1t was
one of the most complete inventions
ever And it worked admirably, too,
till last Sunday morning, when they
thought the wind was blowing down
the chimney, when it was only the
blazing skirt all afire blowing back
draughty-like up the stove pipe and into
the range. Really, We're it not er bin
for the seriousness of the thing, it was
one of the funniest happenings that
ever took place anywhere at any time.
Hubby got there in time to see the last
veStige of the old Slirrit fall apart and
squirm over in flames on the floor,
which is wood, and, having water
handy, and only Il preserve jar to
throw it on with, and which was am
pie, is why the whole derned fire de-
partment was not called out about 10
a. m Did we swear? No, just cussed
but not out loud.
What, with chipping brides all day
long and an atmosphere that after the
noon hour was vibrant with the glo-
ries of an April offering, last Sunday
beat Old Probabilities and his promise
Of rain by about Il mile. Such days
are-well you know-fine enough to
make one love his neighbors
All the Stars Shone!
And Thursday night of last week !!
All the stars in their wonderful bright
ness and magnificent indescribable
ness came out following the big "a
mile gale that nearly swept things off
the Palisades. 1t was Il John Bur
roughs night, and to live through the
few hours of it that We're allowable
before seeking the god of slumber was
an inspiration even to prosy nature
like ours. Our next door neighbOr had
been living in the city for so long and
having only recently come IN paliSa de