The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1892-12-29
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40" SooA heaueu 6ifl Captured
Rascal Hiding Under the ned
THE best way for woman to do if
she woke up and found man at work
in her room, says a burglar. would
be to keep very still and pretend she
was still sleeping, or, if he knew that
she had seen him, to obey his orders
and keep still. If he thought she
had submitted, he wouldn't watch
her so hard, and it would give her
time to think what to do. There's
one thing, though, that would be
bad for a woman. If a burglar left
her room by the door she ought to
listen to his footstep or watch the
light o his lantern, an she don't
want to get out O bed or move until
he is well out of hearing.
"A man who goes out that way
will always stop when he has gone
few feet from the door where WON
an is, and, if he hears her jump out
of bed at onct, he suspects what she's
up to, and would then escape by the
nearest window and be out of her
reach, or else he would go back an
make it dangerous for her. She wants
ter be cunnin. Then she can catch
him. 1t was smart girl and cool
girl that got away with a fellow I
know. He had got into the second
story window and had just about
landed when he heard two women
comm. He crawled under the bed
and got out O. sight. The women
came in and undressed and got into
bed.
when he thought they had been
in bed long enough to get asleep he
began to work out. A dim light had
been left in the room. He had Just
got his head to the edge of the bed
and his hand and arm were sticking
out beyond the bed, when he found
one of the women was getting out O
bed. She stepped square on his arm,
and looking down saw him, so it
seemed, draw it back. She went
across the room and turned UP the
gas and began looking around the
dressing table.
''In a minute she called to the
other woman, Mary, wake up The
woman got awake, an the other says,
What did I do with that letter that
came this afternoonT The one in
bed didn't seem to recall the letter,
but finally she seemed to and the
girl on the floor said: Tt worries me;
I can't sleep. I must go down stairs
and see if I left it in the parlor. The
other one said, All right, an the first
girl calmly took lot of matches,
just as if she meant to light the gas
and went out of the room, but she
didn't go any farther than the room
where man was sleeping. She told
him she had found a man under her
bed. He thought at first it was that
same old man women are always
finding. She convinced him finally,
an he went out an got help.
''She came back into the room
alone, and in few minutes the men
burst in and snaked the fellow from
under the bed. He was completely
fooled man, an said that woman was
i SO cool an natural about it that he
never should have suspected her in
the world. But the best part of it
was that after the first woman left
the room the other was just as quiet
and happy there as a baby. She
didn't suspect anything, an when she
found that there had been a man I'M
der the bed all the time she Just up
and tainted away. That's how a
woman can fool a burglar if she
keeps her wits about her.
'One foolish thing that women do
is in getting their husbands to get up
at any noise and go chasing around
the house to locate it. Half the men
who hear a noise in the house would
think it had some good explanation,
an turn over an go to sleep again.
But their wives won't let 'em. They
make 'em get out of bed and go
roaming around hunting for possible
thieves. That's where the mischief
comes in. The man don't stand as
good show as the woman does. If
the woman would only turn over an
go to sleep herself she'd save good
many Of the lives that are lost
through burglars.
''All thieves know that women are
their greatest dangers, an nine-tenths
of the burglars who are captured are
caught through women; but it de-
ponds, as I said, on the womans
keeping cool an usid her wits. New
York Recorder.