Archive for March 16th, 2012
TheĀ Fort Dodge Messenger: March 16, 1906
Housecleaning Time at Hand
Carpet Beating and Similar Scenes Will Soon Appear.
Cafes Will Do Rushing Business While Family Man Stays away From Home.
Symptoms If your wife is growing restless, if she tentatively tugs You had better plan for boarding somewhere else a day or two, You will eat upon the ice box, you will sleep upon the stove, -W.D. Nesbitt |
The above verse seems singularly appropriate to the season which will soon be fairly launched upon the populace. House cleaning time with all its sorrows, labors and exasperations will soon descend upon the public, to the public (sic), to the unutterable disgust and uncomfort (sic) of the long suffering family man, and the hard working housewife. Only the laboring woman and the professional carpet beater will rejoice and “Everybody will work, but Father,” who will take his meals down town while theĀ household is uptorn; to the profit of the cafe and the restaurant keep keeper (sic).
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