di THREE ACRES And Six Dependents By Phyllis Smith = i We miss King in another respect i these lush spring days. King would never allow salesmen in the yard and we have seen many park a car out front, take a look at King and climb back in their cars and drive ' away. Norm and I are both highly ! susceptible to salesmen and are apt to buy any old useless gadget fol- lowing a good salestalk. Way back in the days before'King is when the i two mad Armenians sold us some 1 : very gruesome Oriental rugs. Word 5 must have reached them that we were gliding aimlessly about the house on. cracked Congoleum rugs | blissfully unaware of what Orient- als could do for our standard of made a study of rugs but I had { read somewhere to beware of rugs with a stiff backing as that denoted a great amount of sizing and in time would deteriorate leaving nothing but a‘ memory of the rug it used to be. I was more than im- pressed when the two dusky dem- onstrators walked in with a nine by twelve Oriental done up in a small package plus several smaller packages which later proved to be chips off the same warp. In ten minutes the rugs were reposing on | the living room floor and I was quite pleased with the effect. I asked Norm what he thought and he said, “It looks like the lobby of ‘the Kingston theatre,” but he nevertheless was interested. Mean- while both men had their hats pulled down over their eyes and were glancing furtively about and pacing up and down the room. They seemed to be in a great hurry \ to leave so pulled their piece de resistance which consisted of light- ing matches and throwing them on the rugs which fortunately had x been fireproofed. Norm will buy . anything that is fireproof so after that startling display he located his checkbook and said “sold.” Sev- eral nights later ‘some friends called and Norm got some kitchen matches and lighted several and threw them with reckless abandon all around the room. Much to his horror they lay smoldering on the rug so we all jumped up and step- ped on them. Norm was crushed and we told our guests what had : happened the night the rugs be- : came ours. The man, quiet, but smart, told Norm we were the vic- tims of a magnificent hoax. In the first place the rugs were of Chinese origin and weren't even remotely related to the great Karastan fam- ily and in the second place they weren't fireproof. It was all in the way the men threw the matches. They were out long before they ever hit the rug. The next morn- .ing’s inspection revealed ‘many little burned places so we kept the rugs but never even lit a match in the same room with them. nla Once we purchased the rugs we were an easy mark for a “beats as it sweeps as it cleans” expert so every day some poor Chinaman’s work was taken up into the hungry \ Hoover bag. The first week that \ Norm left to report for duty in Maryland he cautioned me not to “ make any big purchases until we ” decided what we were going to do with the house and kids while he was Special Servicing for Uncle Sam. Norm it seems to me, was about the first man to report for y duty in the last war and about the last to be discharged. Anyway his orders came in March and he left the following week for Fort Meade. Just as he drove away Wade re- ported that there was a man at the front door to see me. I was in | no condition to argue about any- thing at that point so in no time at all repulsive had thrown dirt all over the rugs and was showing why his cleaner was the only one to keep house with. He did the handkerchief trick which would cause some good housekeepers to commit suicide. Where all that dirt came from is : anybody's guess. “Did I consider % myself a good housekeeper?” : “Yes.” “Did I realize all this filth was lurking in the rugs after I had cleaned just that morning?” “NO.” “Could I possibly face life without g his cleaner?” “No.” To this day I don’t know how it happened but I bought his cleaner, He allowed me ten dollars on my old cleaner and every time I trudge up the stairs carrying the cleaner I mentally kick myself for not keeping the other one for upstairs use. Life was beautiful until Norm came home the next week end and at the din- ner table announced that we would move to Maryland. We then dis- cussed finances and he asked, “Did you spend any money this week, Bun?” I swallowed hard and said, “Yes, eighty-five dollars.” The kids stopped chewing and Norm eyed his family then said, “I thought you weren't going to buy anything big until we decided what we were going to do.” Bob came to my res- cue and said, “It's nothing big Dad, it's just a vacuum cleaner.” Norm cleared his throat and said, “By big I didn’t mean an elephant a ms Sr something expensive.” We all laughed and started our digestive tracts working again and I prom- , anymore “big” purchases until he _ got a promotion. —Phyllis M. Smith fro THE POST, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1949 __PAGE THREE living. Neither Margie nor I had | ~ or the Brooklyn Bridge, I meant | | ised Norm that I wouldn't make ' Ho 4 Oe ING Our Annual June Food Festival June 6-11 Inclusive—Another Week of Quistanding F Food Values ! 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