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Show EVER MAKE A BED? I ! ' HERE'S MAN THAT SAYS JOB LOOKS EASIER THAN IT IS. " After Strenuous Time at What Hs Thought Was 8lmple Undertaking Undertak-ing Ho Had to Give Up j the Job. "Say," spoke up the man whoev wife went home to spend the holi- days. "d'J'ever try to make a bed? Did yuh? . "If you did," said the lonesome look- lng man, "then I don't need to say anything to you. But ain't It tho tricky job? Looks easy, too. How d'Juh s'pose a woman ever manages to get away with making two or threo beds In a houso and thCa get anything any-thing else done that day? "Now, tho other morning when I got up and found, all the bed clothes pulled loose from their moorings at the foot 1 says to myself: 'Five days Is long enough for a bed to go without with-out beln' made. I'll Just make if I'd never tried on the bed making propo- sltlon. but It looked simple enough. My wife used to make the bed In our room Just while I was putting on my collar and then slip in and make up the children's beds before I c'd get my hair combed. "Well, I tried smoothing out tho sheets and blankets, first from ono side of the bed and then I'd raeo around to the other side aud rub 'em down. But did they get smoothed out? They did not. They got moro askew every time I touched 'era. Then I tried tucking 'em in at the foot, so that I at least wouldn't have my toes sticking out Into tho chill atmosphere when I went to sleop that night. When I got 'em tucked I found a big welt across the foot of the bed caused by some klvvers that I failed to get hold of. Then when I saw Just how ruffled ruf-fled up they were all over the bed I decided to pull them all off and start over again. "I took 'em off and then put 'em all on again, ono at a time, and the bed looked pretty solid and even except for on quilt lopping over a little too much toward the floor on one side, but the operation took me just-40 minntes by tho clpck over on the dreHser. "Then I thought while I was at It I would make the pillows stack up plumb, the way I'd seen 'em before the missus went home, ' Say, I wonder how that's done. -I would pick 'em up and lay 'em down again Just aa easy like and try to smooth them out real slick, but still they persisted In looking as if they were Just about all In. They didn't seem to be up on tho bit at all. I don't know when I've seen a more anemic, wilted-looklng pair of pillows. "After this when that bed gets rumpled rum-pled up and lumpy I'm going to pull off the klvvers and roll myself up like a bug in a cocoon and let it go at that." Cleveland Plain Dealer. |