PAGE SIX THE POST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1943 FROM. PILLAR TO POST By Mas. T. M. B. Hicks, JR. Having the house painted always looks so rosy in prospect. The mind's | eye gloats over the beautiful glistening white surface of the sidewalls, | the immaculate deck-paint on the porch floors, the neat black screens. | No more peeling paint. The pillars flanking the front door gleaming white instead of smudged and pencilled It always sounds swell. June we negotiate for the job. It “will be lovely to have the sleeping porch in good condition for the summer. With freshly-painted white clapboards and black screens, we can really enjoy using the upstairs porch for an outdoor living room. We'll add a little blue coloring mat- ter to the gray deck-paint, and we'll make new slip-covers for the triple-deck bunk and the box - couches. When juvenile guests de- scend upon us, we will usher the little darlings to the sleeping porch where they can pillow-fight«to their hearts’ content without disturbing the adult population. When may the painters be ex- pected? Oh, almost any time now. A week at the latest. Comes the boss-painter to _ spect the premises. He shakes his head sadly. No use in even starting the job until the roof is reshingled. in- What has the roof to do with the | sidewalls? Another funereal rota- tion of the head from left to right. The dampness from off the roof, Ma’am, runs down behind the clap- boards and reappears in odd places. That is why the paint on the back porch peeled so badly during the past winter. Dampness oozing from behind the clapboards, directly off that roof. - In that case, why didn’t the dampness ooze out from the floor above, peeling the paint from the sleeping porch ? Well, there's no accounting for dampness. But that there roof, it’s Along in¢ by careless adolescent fingers. | i | | 1 gotta be shingled. No use wasting ' money on a paint job until the | roof is tight. | The roofers appear as if by magic. | The asphalt shingles go on over the old wooden ohes. Asphalt shingles | lack the personality of wooden | shingles, but they do insulate the | roof and the effect is not too bad, | though monotonously uniform. | The roof tight, .and shedding a | cloudburst, the eavespouts clog and | overflow. The soil-pipe fills with | junk from the reroofing project, and the torrent cascades down the cel- | lar steps. The plumber comes to dig up the | sail-pipe. The sump-pump labors | valiantly with the flood, but gives | up the ghost. The electrician comes | to diagnose the ailment while wo bail out the cellar. The ominous | clatter was caused by a sheared-off bolt. ; The painter comes, and remains long enough to deposit three long "ladders in the back yard. Things are | looking up. It has been only six | | weeks since his preliminary inspec- | ’ tion. Almost any time now, the | "house will glisten. | Three weeks pass, and the paint- | er brings two stout stepladders. The next time he appears, the house is fu'l of company. He scrapes loose flecks of paint from the lep- rous patches, coats the denuded area thinly with a white undercoat, and once more disappears. Time passes. With the canning season in full blast, and with six Is SABOTAGE... HR EEE | | To waste scarce and ex- pensive feeds on unprofit- able poultry and livestock. Feel free to call upon us to help you cull your Hocks and check your herds. It's part of our contribu- tion to the war effort and to you. TRUCKSVILLE MILL Stanley L. Moore, Prop. Trucksville, Penna. EEE EE EE EEE ; Lh 1) ode <n Wh ea . k °, A ¢ FOR OWI “a, '- ER ED er 72 é Ae SEINE eles 2 5 S 2 j= | | | -) | ! NOW THAT'S WHATT1 MEAN BY “START! NG AN, ARRESPONSIBLEAWHI SPERING - CAMPAIGN." | extra -house-guests, the painter re- | He erects ladders, and life takes on a'l the privacy of the classic gold. fish bowl., Cautious scouting reveals | ia ladder well to the right of a bed- comfortably on the saw-horses and : J room window, several feet away : from the aperture. The family is the victim of misplaced confidence. The the window, does not show up dur- naissance, nor the connecting link between the two. A muscular and sill, and the family scatters in dis- array. ' A harried and hurried female opens the front door to inspect the contents of the mail-box. She steps through the doorway in haste, as is her custom, and steps a little far- ther than she expected. There is no front porch. The front porch is represented by a skeleton of rafters, and two fat white pillars are laid tenderly on the grass. What on earth is going on here? The carpenter says that he has or- 3 ders to mend the frontporch before it was painted. The only way he could mend it was to rip off the 2 flooring and replace it, along with a little new sub-structure. And I should oughter look where I am go- | ing. I agree, rubbing my shins, and easing myself up over the rafters. “But I still don’t see why we need new flooring.” | “Why lady, you could put your (finger through that flooring any- where.” “But I don’t want to put my fin- ger through it. I want to walk on Hue “Lady, that dampness worked down through the flooring at the base of the pillars, and the pillars were just about ready to sink through the floor. You could have put your finger, etc etc.” “Oh well, I give up. But for Pete's sake, get the flooring in place be- fore evening.” “Oh, it will be all done before JOHN LEIDLINGER (“Red,” formerly with Frey Bros.) All Kinds Of LEATHER WORK REPAIRING Very Neatly Done. Harness, Collars and Horse Supplies Dog Supplies and LUGGAGE 117 SO. WASHINGTON ST., Dial 3-9459 Wilkes-Barre, Pa. LARGE SELECTION Fine Memorials Summit Hill Marble & Granite Co. Luzerne-Dallas Highway Mr. Hudson Owner . . . Is Here State Auto Inspection We have a complete stock of Hudson Parts SEE US AT ONCE "JAMES R. OLIVER second ladder, placed to the left of |is waited for, while the lumber is | | installed, ; ing the hasty preliminary recon- gives the new floor its first priming hairy arm appears on the window- | the strain, and the carpenter 're- \ evening. All' we're waiting for now | i appears, this time with a helper. |is the lumber. The lumber is all or- | dered, and it will be along any min- | ute now.” i The carpenters seat themselves | relax. | We use the side-door for the next two or three days while the lumber and while the painter coat of paint. A window-cord gives way under turns. How about taking it easy on | those windows? The sashes are “heavy and the cords have passed | their first youth. | O. K. Lady, but if you get a cord | jammed in the pulley, you can al- | ways cut it with a knife if you have to shut the window. There is noth- {ing that a painter can do about a i jammed cord. That is not his sphere. | The painters plural simmer down | to painter singular. The helper‘ has | returned to the pursuit of the | square-root. and the binomial theorem in High School. { The one painter goes doggedly ' ahead with the job, but the acreage {is vast, and time flies. | By the time the first snow flies, ithe house should glisten. And next | | spring we can go over the sleeping | ! porch with yellow soap and a brush to remove the winter accumulation | of soot. : BEAUMONT The Ladies’ Aid of the Union Church served a luncheon at the church on election day. i Florence Frear, who has been | spending some time at Eatonville, lis at the home of her niece, Mrs. | Donald Meeker. Mrs. Maud Scovell, of Forty Fort, is spending some time visiting friends and relatives in town. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bittenbender, of New Jersey, visited Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hilbert this last week. Miss Eunice Smith, daughter of Mr. and’ Mrs. Arnold Smith, is rest- ing at her home after an operation. She is employed at Oneonta, N. Y. Mrs. Cora Frear had as weekend guests, Mr. and Mrs. William Race, of Plymouth, Mr. and Mrs. Asa Gary and daughter, Jane, of Kingston. Mrs. C. J. Dress has returned home after visiting her son, Lt. Hi'l- man Dress, of North Carolina, and her husband, at Coatsville. Mrs. | Dress has as guest, her sister, Mrs. Ash, of Wilkes-Barre. ; Lend-A-Hand Club | The monthly meeting Lend-A-Hand Club was held at the [Rome of Mrs. Emory Straley. New | officers were elected. Mrs. Emory | Straley was chosen president and | appointed a committee, Mrs. Emma Richards, Mrs. Caroline Scovell, ! Mrs. Clara Rinsenbury and Mrs. Dorothy Johnson to send Christmas gifts to the boys in service. JACKSON Mrs. Emma Linsinbigler returned last week after spending a week with relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Fish, of Clark’s Summit. Miss Jessie Ashton, graduate nurse of the Nesbitt Hospital, re- turned to her duties at the hospital ! after a two weeks’ vacation with her parents. : Mr. and Mrs. Neual Kester, of Trucksville, visited Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Splitt last week. Mrs. G. R. Splitt returned home Monday after spending a week with relatives at Dallas and Huntsville. 5 Jackson Township School opened | of the on Monday, September 13th. P= GZ OPEN LATE FRIDAY &@ SATURDAY NIGHTS! IS AMMUNITION Can it Wisely Ae Save money and fation po ifits next winter by canning all you can. Your nearby Acme ric to of nourishing, vitamin-rich, Home-grown prod- uce. The smart thing to do is to "put up" as much food as you can to provide good, healthful meals next winter. Finest U. S. 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