, 1892-01-22
plDN,T MISS MuCH.
Interesting Comments on the News of a
Day by n Woman with No Glasses

Interesting inns on the News of a
Day by n Woman with No Glasses
The man on the seat ahead of her was
reading n newspaper, and after getting
settled in the midst of her parcels and
bundles and RECALLING herself with a
pinch of Scotch snuff, she leaned for
ward and said:
81 don't git much time to read the pa
pers nowadays, but l allus like to hear
what's goin on. Is there any news in
perticklerF'
Nothing very exciting" he replied,
as he sized her up out of the corner of
his eve. Here's an item about 3 wife
killing her husband"
"Shool How'd she do it?'
with an AK"
Law me! Wall, she probably stood
it and stood it until she couldn't stand
it no more. It's awful how some hus
bands do carry on. Anything elseY'
Heres an item about a woman in this
state who drove her husband to suicide
by nagging him."
"Shooi Jest kept jawin and complain
in from mornin till night, l suppose, and
he finally got so tired that he took
pizen?'
mo, he hung himself"
"WaI, | don't blame her a mite. He
was probably shiftless and lazy, and it
split her temper to see things goin down
hill. She'll nave a chance now to git
married to a better an.
"And here's a case" he continued, as
he pretended to read, 'of a wife and
mother who ran away from home with a
tin peddler, leaving a husband and sew
eral children behind"
"Shooi Does it give the p~erticklersY'
at says she is supposed to be a little
Tightly in her head"
wall, she amt a bit Eighty. She
lone jest right. l know purity nigh how
it was. She had all her Homework to do
and them young 'uns to take keer of, and
the husband was probably findin fault
all the time on top O. that. She jest
shaved and shaved till she couldn't slave
no more. Some folks think a woman can
bear everything, but they can't. | 'spose
the youngest child was purity small?'
"Only seven months old"
wall, she probably hated to leave it,
but it would have been weaned in a
couple of months anyhow, and the father
kin bring it up on a bottle. It'll serve
him right If 1t squalls half the time.
Anything elseY'
"Why, / notice that a woman has just
married her fifth husband, and isn't
fifty years old yet. Her neighbors are
SO indignant that they talk of driving
her away"
"Lal Got her fifth, Ell? Wall, if ]
was that woman the nayburs might talk
and blow and be hanged to EN-. amt
Aff,, a11 n;thar anl IT,, a 1,u,r
with my fourth, and don't keel how soon
he goes. | was powerfully deceived in
him"
"Do you say that you'd marry again if
he should der
'Sartin, and | wouldn't wait over six
months, either. Some folks think a wo-
man has no rights, but she has, and she's
a fool if she don't assert 'em."
This may interest you" said the
man, as he turned the paper over. "a
st. Louis doctor declares that the feet of
women are gradually but surely grow
ing larger, and that in the next fifty
years to come every one of them viii
want a No. Z shoe"
"Shool He a y that. does he?"
"Yes'm."
"And he's u doctorg'
"Yes'm."
wall, he hain't told no startlin news.
I've been wearin No. rs ever since / was
a gal sixteen years old, and I've got the
smallest foot of any woman in our town
as it is. did feel kinder sorry when l
diskivered that I'd left my spectacles on
the kitchen clock shelf at home, but if
that's all the news the papers kin rake
mn ur,aaa I hafn't ,nfuaal nnthipnls -
New York World.