San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-04

and curly-cues, with faint grey hand
marks scattered through, SO figur-
ed where nothing he could do with
a pencil or by leaning first in the
dustpan and then against the wall,
would really change the design to
any degree worth spanking about.
That's fine! says Mabel. I be-.
lieve l will just drop in there on my
way to the squash-courts, and make
sure if they only got enough of that
paper for one room! she says, but
are you going to do anything with
the servants room.
oh my yes! I says. What I am
going to do to that is a plenty. I'm
thinking Of pink satin walls inlaid
- in ivory enamel with Cooks Tourist
furniture and the best quality sticky
flypaper on the floor. If our next
cook don't stay, it won't be on &C.
count of that room. But I says,
the one room i can't decide about
is the one and George occupy. If
only 1 could find some kind Of snore
aproof material l would use it.
A DASH OF LAVENDER.
And Mabel says yes, that would
be pretty, especially with a little
dash of lavender. think your
house. my dear. she says, is conner
be simply wonderful to put it mild.
ly. but. she says, certainly pity
you. the mess it's conner be. And
before could decide exactly what
she meant by that, she was beating
it down the street.
Well. scarcely was she gone then
who would arrive only Mr.. Inc. and
he was as cordial as creme Dc
menthe. 1 took him on a personally
conducted tour de looks from cellar
to attic. and as we Travelled / ex-
planned to him all the details. Mr.
Inc. didn't say whole lot, he war
closed mouth clam, also little
necked in the fishy sense Of the
word.
His line was TO uh-hu-mum-muD
me, nod. and write statistics down
in little black note book he packed
along. The only thing he added to
10 nonvarc at;nr no , fau- axtr,s
such as seven auothes Of paint to
make a real good job of it, and etc.
Then. when he had all the parts as.
sembled. I approached the ever en-
barrsssing subject of how much
would it all come to? I approached
with my best form, all but the
mashie.
BREAK 1T GENTLY.
OF course Mr.. Inc. says, I want
to do all this as reasonably as pos
sible. am in enough danger of los
ing most of my reason while the
work is going on. so don't add any
thing on the bill unless necessary.
want first-class work, naturally, but
being only human, why of course ]
hate to pay for it.
Certainly Ms. Jules he says
understand perfectly, you want the
job done good, but you don't care
to be the same yourself. We will
main the whole thing as low as pos
sible. Now let me see! The pantry
shelves will come to not over two
hundred berries. ! should say tho
hall. at a rough estimate would run
to two thousand dollars: a polite
estimate would come to a little
more. of course. Now on the par
lour. / think We could get that out
for you around five thousand and
the dining room at about the same
round figures. The rest Of the house,
j suggest your doing on time, plus
commission.
Well, 1 says, making it low, is
right, or would be, IL told you
what thought Of that piece of pro-
posed highway robbery, For be-
ieve you me, the only two hundred
berries that's going into them pantry
shelves will Be preserved ones in
Mason jars! The rough estimate
on the hall has got me positively
rocky, and as for getting out the
parlour at five grand, well let me
tell you, boy, you can have it at
half the prices il you can get it out
at all.
DOING TIME, ALL RIGHT.
And when it comes to doing the
rest Of the house on time, I'd be do
ing time all right IL l tried to get
the cash to pay for it. So Ill think
over your estimate, and IL don't
90 crazy, I'll Jet you know!
50 be went away, and the minute
he had, ! called up that Mabel
Bush on the telephone. Say dear, I
says, / been thinking over the good
advice you give me, and decided not
10 bother with the house this sea-
son. And by the way dear. could
you loan me a paint brush? And
she says why dear, l thought you
didn't use any make up! And ]
says oh I'm merely conner make
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