Helping His Wife.

Otago Witness, Issue 2561, 6 May 1903, Page 71

Helping His Wife.

A story is told of a helpful husband who tried to lighten hie wife's work, wijth results almost as painful as fhe case of that amateur cook who, in a moment of abstraction, tried to make some pastry with plaster-of-paris. He rose very early one morning, and, being fond of doing little jobs about the house, he decided that the back porch was dirty, and that it would be a fine thing to clean it. Chuckling to himself to thi.uk how surprised his wife would be when she came down, he went to the kitchen, got a scrubbing brush, a package of what he thought was soap powder, and a bucket of water, and started work. It was very early, the neighbours were not yet stirring, and he thought it was great fun. Gaily he sprinkled the "scap" about, and then, moistening the brush, he started scrubbing. But the more he scrubbed the more pasty was the result, nnd after a while bubbles began to show themselves in a mixture of what looked like billposters' paste. Just then his wif© appeared at the door. "Why, Jaok!" she exclaimed, "what in the world are you doing?" "Scrubbing the poroh," replied Jack. Mrs Jack picked up the oackage which the zealous husband had supposed contained soap powder. "Good gracious!" she cried. "You're using cornflour !"