A USEFUL WIFE.

Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 324, 25 May 1878, Page 4

A USEFUL WIFE.

They had been oat to ibo graveyard to bury Mrs. Pidgeon, ami wore riding homo in the carriage with the bereaved widower. 'While l;e mopped his (yes with his handkerchief he told about her:- “ In one respect I never saw her equal. She was a manager ! I’ve know’d that woman that’s a lying out .there in the tomb, to take an old pail- of my trousers and cut them up for the boys. She d make a splendid suit for both of them out of them old pants, and a cap for Johnny, and have some loft over for a ran' carpet, besides making handkerchiefs, .out ot the.pockets. Give her any old garment and it was as good as a gold mine..' .Why, she’d take an old sock and make a good overcoat ont of it, 1; believe. She .had turn for that kind of economy. There’s one of my shirts that/1 bong at in 187T still going: about- making - itself •useful ns window curtains, ami. plenty of other tilings. Only last June our gridiron gave out and she took it apart, 'and in two hours it was rigged on the / side" of the house dis a splendod lightning - conductor nit except what she had made ink) a poker anclice-pick. Ingenious! Why, she kept the' family in button si ami whistles’wit of the hatti bones that-she saved,, am! she made fifteen princely chicken.coops out of her ok! ;hoop-ski.i:ts,.,anci. a pig-pci hj but of her used np .corset-bones, Bhe neverwas ted a solitary thing. . : ,;Let. a-cat die around the bouse, and the first thin° - you knew Mary : Juue’d /have a new,muff end a set of furs,: and I’d begin to find mince pics on the dinnertable. / She’d stuff a feather bed with the. feathers she'got off one, lit tie. bit of a rooster, and she’d even utilise, the roaches iu the kitchen so they’d run the churn—had a machine she.made for that purpose. ; I’ve seen her cook potatoes parings, so you’d think = they■ canvas-buck-. dock, and she bad a way of doctoring up. shavings- chat the pig would cat them and glow fat on them. 1 believe she could build a four story hotel if. you’d give her a single pine board: ur a steamboat out of a washboibv ; and the very last tiling? she said to me was to bury bar out in the garden, so sire would bo useful down below there, to help shove up the cabbages. 11! never see her like again.—Aimrieaa Paper.