Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — House-Cleaning Wore Him Out. [ARTICLE]

House-Cleaning Wore Him Out.

The man of the house took to the sofa in the Bitting-room, with a newspaper, directly after breakfast, while his wife went on with the house-cleaning. She was dismantling the front room, and while he pursued the sporting column she carried past him, in turn, seven chalre, three tables, a desk, four footstools, all of the pictures, a piano stool, a bookcase and the rest of the furniture. Then Bhe lugged in a pair of steps and a big pail of water and began to clean. “Marla, do you want any assistance?” said the man just then, rising and folding his newspaper. “Not Just yet, dear," said Maria. “Well, then, I think I’ll leave you,” said he, and he started for the office. On the way down he told three men thaA If there was anything that wore him to the skin and bone it was that confounded house-cleaning. Said he: ‘We are in the midst of it now, and I telljfVOu I’m about üßed up. St. Louis Fog. Dispatch.