THE EVOLUTION OF THE PLUMBER.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

  WHO does not know the plumber?--and yet how little we know of him. At a glance it would almost seem that his calling is as old as the hills, but he is of to-day. If we think of him at all, it is to laugh at jokes made at his expense, and which are as stale as the witticisms of the Miller school. This he takes pleasantly, and makes no reply. It is enough for him that he knows much which the majority of his employers do not know; and although he has no credentials and no recommendation, other than that he has worked at his calling from boyhood, we put faith in his ability, and intrust to him the sanitary arrangement of our dwellings.