Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1917 — Domestic Diplomacy. [ARTICLE]

Domestic Diplomacy.

Mrs. John Brown, a friend of Henrietta’s, says that when she married. Job' allowed her to select everything for the new home with the exception of the kitchen stove. v mas knows better how to select that than a woman," said he. Manlike. he bought, the biggest range and the highest-priced one on the market The wife was very proud of the stove, but did have spells of wishing that the kitchen were larger or the stove smaller, so that each would not be so conscious of the other’s presence. The first few years they moved about considerably, as is the way with n wly weds, and the bugbear of moving was always the stove. Finally wife coaxed round a bit and suggested that they sell it and get a'smaller one, and hubby acquiesced. In a week or two, wife had found a purchaser in a woman who lived in the second-story apartment next door. When the wagon came to take the stove away, they had an awful time to get it out of the kitchen, ancTTwife breathed a big sigh of relief when she saw it well out of the yard and on its way up the stairs of the next door apartment. A few minutes later she looked out, and to her horror they were bringing it back down the stairs. “What’s the matter?” she called. “We can’t get it In the door,” said the man, “it have to be taken up thru the window.” Wife decided not to show herself again until the stove was well Inside t e apartment. The next time she peeped out, the; wertr operating a pul.ey device, by which the horse wont round and, the. stove wont up; it was-already five feet in the air. "Good!” thought Mrs. Brown. In a minute or two she again peeped out, and they werfe still operating the pulley device, but the horse waa gelng up and stove down. “Me for quick action, Mrs. Brown to herself, ahd hastily throwing a few .clothes into a suitcase, she made for ihe home of her mother, where she anfl John remained for several days. What the woman In the next apartment got back home would make another interest!. jtory, but Mrs. Brown only wip. .the tears away with her aprbn, and said that it was just breaking her heart to do without that stove; that there never was an oven that could bake suoh good pie, cake, etc.