Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1915 — Gloucester Housewife. [ARTICLE]

Gloucester Housewife.

Gloucester, Mass., is famed for its capable housewives. None of the housewives is more famous than Mrs. Norton. It was Mrs. Norton who rose early one morning and spent an hour before breakfast in washing and scrubbing an old flight of stairs in her shed, although carpenters were coming that day to tear down the stairs and build a new flight. She did not intend that those carpenters should have an oppotunity to tell their wives that any part of her house was not “as neat as Wax.” But the favorite story that Mrs. Norton’s neighbors tell relates to the coalhod. “Bsra," ceiled Mrs. Norton one day to her husband, who was out in the yard, “I want you to go down cellar and fetch up some coal! And be sure to wash your hands before you touch that coalhod!” —Youth’s Companion.