Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1897 — House-Cleaning Wore Him Out. [ARTICLE]

House-Cleaning Wore Him Out.

The man of the house took to ths sofa in the sitting room, with a newspaper, directly after breakfast, while his wife went on with the house-cleaning. She was dismantling the front mar, ♦nd while he pursued the sporting colimn she carried past him, in turn, seven i hairs, three tables, a desk, four foot♦tools, all of the pictures, a piano stood a bookcase and the rest of the furnlturm Thon she lugged in a pair of steps and a big pall of water and began to clean. “Mana, do you want any assistance?* 1 •aid the man just then, rising and fold- i lag bls newspaper 1 Kot just yet, dear," said Maria. “Well, then, I think Til leave yon, 4 '< ♦aid ho, and ho started for the office. > On the way down ho told three men •bat if there was anything that wore'" him to the skin and bons it was that jonfounded house-cleaning. Said he:*' *We are in the midst of It now, and 1 all vou I'm altout used up. "—At Louis , Ispotrtt | j erccrd'ng t«. the Homans itetorhuiH, ba 1 a mouth hm large that 1 it In. plred terror whenever he opened 1 It 1 Constantine IV. is mentioned by con-) temporary historians as having the I meat handsome beard in his domln ,! tarn. \ < Pnntoa Victor, Plon-Plon’s oldest! son, will try to get into the British mi 1-4 itarv twrvica.