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By Marietta Holley 
“Josiah Allen’s Wife” 
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When ltnt.li and her children arrived at 
their new home it was a cheerless spot 
that they found. John had dumped the 
various articles he had brought in little 
heaps, each one wretched-looking, and 
standing in a wretched-looking spot. Ruth 
thought that never had the dirty floor and 
walls looked so dark and forbidding. Rut 
John and Alice succeeded in setting up 
the rusty old stove, and when a fire was 
started and some tea made in a two-quart 
pail, and some sandwiches and cake set 
on a dean cloth on the top of a barrel, 
they ate the simple lunch, and it gave 
them a little courage to sweep and clean 
out a place where they could sit down. 
The old mattress was laid down in a cor¬ 
ner of the sitting-room, and clean sheets 
and blankets made a comfortable couch 
for the mother and Alice. John made him¬ 
self a nest for the night of some rugs and 
blankets by the kitchen stove, and they 
all slept soundly. 
In the morning they rose with the lark 
and commenced the work of making a 
home. They had brought lime and paint 
and (adoring for the Ceilings and wood¬ 
work. and after they had been vigorously 
swept and cleaned. John and Alice white¬ 
washed the walls above the wainscoting. 
All of the side walls were wainscoted up 
about five feet, and owing to that fact 
the plaster was whole and sound, though 
dark with the dust and smoke of years. 
Alter, in 11 Kit (tAiujkn. 
They tinted the kitchen walls a pretty 
bull' color and painted the wainscoting 
two or three shades darker. The dining 
room and sitting room they colored a 
soft pink, with wainscoting of cherry 
red. 
There was a large room opening out of 
the sitting or living room as they re¬ 
named it, which had evidently once been 
used as a parlor. This they fitted up for 
a room for the mother, wisely thinking 
that it would do better service in this 
way than as an extra room used seldom, 
and which could easily be dispensed with. 
This room had three windows, and the 
old-fashioned fireplace had on each side 
roomy cupboards and clothes presses, 
which seemed made for the comfort and ' 
convenience of the little mother. 
This being a south room they tinted it 
a pale green with white woodwork, to 
correspond with the green and white rug, j 
and the white cheesecloth curtains with j 
a border of pink and green morning 
glories cut from cretonne cost little and 
looked beautiful. Bed and chair covers 
of the same cretonne and one of the old 
sofa cushions covered with the same, 
made a room dainty and beautiful, a pret¬ 
ty nest for the mother bird. 
The floors at first looked hopeless, so 
covered with dirt were they. But under 
the strong arms of John and Alice the 
dirt was finally routed, and after two 
or three scrubbings were pronounced 
clean enough to paint and varnish. The 
cracks were filled with a mixture pre¬ 
pared by them of old newspapers soaked 
to a pulp and mixed with glue and putty 
in proper proportions, which, dried, formed 
a hard surface, and when the floors were 
painted formed a good background for 
the handsome rugs. 
The furniture, after being sandpapered 
was all treated to a coat of stain and 
varnish, and emerged looking as good as 
new. Some handsome old wool brocade 
the mother had found in the attic, moth- 
eaten in spots, was found to be sulfi- 
ciently good to cover one of the old couch 
frames for the living room. 
Ruth had bought a whole piece of 
white cheesecloth, which when made up, 
some with colored borders, some with 
muslin ruffles, curtained the whole house, 
with the exception of the living-room 
and kitchen, the crimson curtains being 
used for the former and for the kitchen 
some plain shades Alice made, herself, 
out of manila paper. 
The stove blacked by John looked re¬ 
spectable in the kitchen, and the fireplace 
in the living-room they found in good 
order when a few broken bricks on the 
hearth had been replaced by new ones. 
A room out of the kitchen which had been 
used to store away rubbish John said 
he would have for his own, declaring it 
was proper for the man of the house to 
be downstairs both for defense from 
marauders and convenience to himself. 
So he and Alice went to work and soon 
transformed it into a pleasant room, large 
enough to hold his bedroom furniture and 
all the belongings a boy delights in. 
They took as much pains fitting up his 
room as they did with Alice's little blue 
and white bower upstairs, for Ruth be¬ 
lieved that the boy’s room should be just 
as pleasant and attractive as the girl’s 
room if you wanted the boy to be con¬ 
tented and happy in his home. This work- 
all took time, but it was well along by 
the time it was necessary for the out¬ 
door work to commence. The broken 
pickets of the door-yard fence were 
mended, and with two or three days’ 
work from a neighboring carpenter the 
pillars of the piazza were straightened 
and the barn put into a respectable con¬ 
dition. The fences were mended and 
John was ready to begin plowing as soon 
as his neighbors. 
They had bought a Jersey cow with 
the money they had expected to use for 
their railroad fare, and its milk helped 
them much in their living. In fact they 
all preferred t<» make one meal a day 
of the delicious milk with graham or corn 
bread. They also after John had re¬ 
paired the barn and its yard, bought a 
dozen hens, two turkeys nnrr a pair of 
ducks. 
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