| Show t 04 women as carpente ik it la Is no doubt a refreshing sight eight to the male sex to see a woman assert herself as a carpenter if anything wil will establish the superiority perio ity rity of man over woman homanan wo manan an exhibition of her skill in using tools will do it there are various little jobs around a house which would gme come carpenters province ani ind and no head of a family likes to do them he is never willing wining to take hold and his hia wife wants them done right up tho the door bage cage or a window slicks or the screws work out of the curtain fixtures or the casters break on the dinning room tab table tabie leor oi the cellar stairs get brokel broken or somebody tips back in a rocking chair and splits the concern into two two chairs or some other breakage or damage occurs I 1 the husband and father Is bulf bull reading about the last murder or of smoking a cigar not paid forand for adi and he cannot attend to it and mhd woman gets her up 11 says bays is well weli I 1 can ean do it myself and generally adds something to the eject that men are not vom vow their salt and bhe ehe wishes shed iid never become fool enough to tle tie herself to one so there then she prepares to do the job herself it Is a curtain fixture to be put up this thia time curtain fixtures you have probably noticed never come the right length for far any window that was ever constructed she gets a chair and arms herself with a screwdriver and puts six screws in her mouth and climbs on the chair with the fixtures la in her hand and finds she cant reach the top of the window by three or four inches she gets down and in doing so her dress gets entangled in the chair back and tears off a little i fringe and a little knife pleating bleating pl eating pot of geranium on the window bill sill and in attempting to save that she strikes her head against a bracket by the side of the window which bolds bolda a pot of ox alls and down comes the oxalis 1 aforesaid and the pot breaks and the earth is spilled all over the carpet and the plant is demoralized for life of cobrae she bhe opened her mouth to scream and the screws ily fly out and in jumping after them bhe she drops tho the reat real of the things and has to begin anew this she does when she has up the pot an and d plant and swept away the dir dit taud tand put some camphor on her head where it struck the bracket it I 1 the husband and atner should to do the job for bernow her ber now bhe she would scorn acorn his proposal her blood was up handshe and bhe she willhoit will doit do it herself or perish in the attempt she gathers together her implements again ana and puts an ottoman in the chair and climbs into another chair and from that gets geth on the ottoman and stands full a minute swaying backward and forward tiling tiding to get her balanc balance ejust just right for a woman standing upon anything moto moio than two feet from the ground is always dizzy headed and expects to tall the next minute bhe she tries the screw driver on the screws but there never was any I 1 wood so hard as that window cas j ing the screws turn round lively but they do not take hold bhe she haa baa got to have a gimlet to start them boshe soshe so she has got to get down again the ottoman comes cornea with her just just for comply comp wy gid mid taala with 9 bounce on that sore joint in her foot which has bothered her eo so long being a woman she cannot relieve her feelings by swearing but she does doea the next best thing she he kicks the ottoman with the other foot and stirs up hernett her hen next joint j in doing BO so husband and tather father looka innocent centano cen tand and wants to know what bhe she has haa done aone and she is a true christian if she can refrain from telling him it is none of his busin business ess eks A third time she mounts that chair and now she means business you can see it by the wa way bhe she he compre compresses 9 sea bea her lips over those screws and plants her foot on that shaky ottoman and jabs that dull gimlet into the window molding at last the tha sockets for the roller rollar to turn in are up a 8 little showing perhaps per hape but never mind they are up and if the curtain does roll one sided whose business is it husband and father takes time enough from his occupation to mildly inform her that in ment one ot of the sockets is put up on an inch higher than the other nid bid you ever hear a comans womans reply on Buchan buch such an occasion it could not nob be well recorded in words you would want to see her face in order to get the full meaning of her answer she tries the roller it is about a foot too long it must be sawed OX off she stops and considers where is the baw saw the head of the family had it last to cut off an qu apple tree limb with she khinki ahe dhe will not ask him anything about tit it not she bhe she scorns to humor him BO so much she bhe will hunt it up so she gets down again and searches in the woodshed wood shed and in the stable and under the kitchen rink and up in the open attics attic and finds hat wat it at last down cellar on the meat barrei barrel with about half an inch of rust on it and the handle loose sh she takes the roller and lays it iti on two chairs and begins to haw saw the tho saw is just like the screws it take hold she gives a vigorous dig with it and cuts a groove a couple of inches long in one of her bent beat walnut chair frames but does not so much as scar sear the roller another attempt the saw takes hold in one place cuts a little then slips over two or three inches of the length of the roller cutting all along and sending the sawdust every which way husband and father tells tella her she hold her saw right rig bt mad clear through as she afterward tells her confidential next door n neighbor abor bhe the makes a desperate eig elg effort ort olt and the thing is sawed in ija two yeb yes sirl siri it is donel dond ino fino words can describe the triumph which fills her soul aa as she once onee on ce more climbs to althe the ottoman and tries it in the sockets at least two inches too langl depressed in min mind d but not in manner she gets down again and determines it shall be short enough this time well she has got another fixture she will try that she wont be beat out bholi shell have that curtain up so she gets the other fixture and by dint of being extra careful it is sawed to just the tight length then bhe ahe bhe gets the tack hammer and tacks the curtain to the roller and nd pounds on obe oae finger fluger and la both th thumbs and drives two tacks through the curtain where they ought not to be and crooks up about twenty more and then she rises curtain in hand to put it up she linds one socket must be moved a little it sets in too much at the bottom bhe she has put the screw driver driven and 9 gimlet amlet away woman like A man now would have left them right light thereon there on the floor till he wanted them again boa soa to have them handy thero there Is a great difference in the way a man does things compared with a comans womans way elle elie brings bringa them back and gets out the screws and starts them right and then the handle of the screwdriver screw driver comes off it always does when a woman is using itsie drives it on with the tack hammer and proceeds at last the curtain is up and lt it rolls it sou you ou hold on the bottom et of it and sort of coax it along but no unpracticed hand should ever touch it and the woman who fixes it will brag next day to her friends about the way she can handle tools and point to that curtain as an exam pie of what she can do and they will compare notes on their husi hua bands and decide that one smart woman ia Is worth two men |
