Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1903 — KNITTING-WORK. [ARTICLE]

KNITTING-WORK.

The Old Man Cut Up Wood While He Was Resting. Aunt Alvlra Fifer was what her neighbors called a “regular driver.” Possessed of untiring energy and unfailing strength herself, she made little allowance for idleness on the part of any one; and she declared, says a contributor to Lippincott’s Magazine, that she could “put up with a mean man easier than with a lazy Aunt Alvlra’s husband, Uncle Ethan, was a small, wizened, weak-looking man. whom Aunt Alvlra declared to be “mighty wiry, if he did look so spindlin’.” One day a summer boarder who chanced to be staying at a farmhouse near the Fifer homestead wandered over to the little brown farmhouse and sat down for a chat with Aunt Alvira. The visitor took note of the enormous quantity of stove-wood piled up in the back yard and' overflowing from the great wood-shed. The whole yard was strewn with it. The caller estimated that there were not less than twenty-five cords. “What an enormous quantity of wood you have,” he said to Aunt Fifer. “Yes, there is considerable,” she replied. “I cal’late on sellin’ most of it in the fall.” “Who cut itr ’ “Oh, Ethan did it as sort o’ kntttln’work. I think It’s a good thing for it man to have some kind of knittln’work to do'when he’s restin’, and that wood-pile has been Ethan’s knittin*work.” . Hot or cold lemonade, with or without augar, ia very grateful at any time, or If one la feverish or has a cold. Fasting, rest In bed. and lemons would work wonders in many I case of cold and grip.