Show I WHAT THEY QUARRELED I ABOUT I BY Christine Christina Terl Terhune ino Herrick Renick P PAUL UL LE LEARNS A LESSON IN HOUSEKEEPING Housecleaning next week eek remarked Frances rante one evening e Paul gave gayo a groan of dismay It 11 I were ere a houle housekeeper you can bet I Id I'd d manage no o that I Couldn't have to turn the tho whole Joint inside out at housecleaning house house- cleaning time What do you know about houseclean- houseclean lug please tell me What do I know about housecleaning I T know all an about It It m my mother take six weeks weaks to It every spring and fall tall and didn't tho the place smell 0 of and water every overy minute and wasn't I forever breaking my shins over palls pails and scrubbing brushes brushed and didn't wo we live on scraps roost mot of ot the tho time and catch our death of colds from dampness besides You cant can't toll me anything about house house- cleaning You never had bad like that when I cleaned house Because B cause I had sense enough to go o off trout fishing last spring b before foro you ou began and to stay atay away aay until It was done I wish I could do It now Dont be nasty Paul The house houle has hasto hasto hasto to be cleaned Why Is I. It dirt dirty Dont Don't you ou have It 6 swept ept every ery week 1 Of course you absurd boy Then hats that's the matter with It Tho The dust dut accumulates on th the rugs and hangings and In the tho closets and pantries and once In a a. while all th the nooks and corners have hae to b be cleaned and the rugs taken up and beaten and the china washed wt and all aU that Oh yes I suppose so M Well I only hope we wont won't both of us be dead or di divorced divorced divorced di- di a month from now Frances Prances had a It systematic soul and aneS for forthe forthe forthe the next few days she rhe did some pome diligent planning No more T was afo sold of housecleaning house house- cleaning except when nhen Paul lamented that thata a day out of town on business could not be stretched to a fortnight so 80 that she could clean house houpe while hUo he wa waR awa away Frances smiled but hold held her peace The evening Paul r returned his mot met him In her prettiest frock there was an especially good dinner and an air of fM- fM hung about th the house house- Paul drew drewa a lon long breath of comfort when h n he was l settled Fettled In hl his favorite lounging chair after dinner If It this bliss could only Ja last he sighed But I suppose you'll have everything everything every ever thing torn up In a da day or PO so for tor house- house cleaning T I was almo almost t afraid to come com home for fear Id I'd walk In upon It It The Th housecleaning I Is done said Frances France placidly Done When 1 We gave ave the last lut touches touch today but we did most of or It last t week And Ane I 1 never knew It It How under the sun did you man manage Or are you only stringing me Of course Im I'm not I 1 planned out the work ork and did It one room at a time Most rost ro t of It went on while whilo you w were r at business Well Wen as I have often remarked before be be- fore tore I have to hang It on you you Say Sty does every even one houseclean that way In these days I dont don't know but hut after you said ld your Our mothers mother's house was as all torn tom to pieces In housecleaning tim I made up my mind mineS you vou shouldn't find out when I cleaned house e If It I perished In the effort |