St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-20

spread around the doors an win
dows, on the floor, every night before
folks went ter bed. The gang got so
they knew what folks had papers.
twas always where the women was
alone. You couldn't get a family up
there ter give away a paper. A news,
naper was Wuth gold. No burglar will
try ter cross paper. The wind comes in
under the doors or through crack, anu
the papers would crack. If mouse
came out and ran across the paper
everybody yelled thief, and the women
all had Mysteries. There was two old
maids up there that tried the paper
racket But it didn't work. They got
scared too often. A couple OF fellows
got in, and the old women screamed,
and went through every blessed thing
in the house, with the ola women
screaming murder and thief at the top
Of their voices. The boys didn't care.
They knew nobody would come. The
Old women had been trying papers for
week, and every night they had walked
up the neighborhood yelling if a breeze
stirred paper. The men got tired o.
goin' over am never finding anybody
there, an so they stopped. an let the
old women yell all they wanted to. The
papers didn't work that time. But i'll
ordinary cases, if a woman who was
alone in a house got Whitfet dog an a
baby, an spread papers around. no
thief, unless he was a murderer, too,
would go near that house.
THE best way for woman to do If
she woke up and found a man at work
in her room 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 woman.
If burglar left her room by the door
she ought to listen to his foOtstep or
watch the light O. his lantern, au' 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 woman is. and, If he
hears her jump out of bed at once, lie
suspects what she is up to, anu would
then escape by the nearest window and
Ue out of her reach, or else he would go
back an make ii dangerous for her. She
wants ter be cunnin'. There she can
catch him. 1t was a smart girl and a
cooi girl that got away with fellow
know. He had got in the second-story
window and had just about landed,
when he 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 be-
gan 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
arm and hand were sticking out beyond
the bed, when ne found one of the wom-
Ell 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
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 | do with that
letter that came this afternoon" The
one IN bed didn't seem to recall the
letter, but finally she seemed to and
the girl on the floor said: 1T worries
me. can't sleep. l must go down
stairs and see if left it in the parlor
The other one said, GAIL 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 further than the room where man
was sleeping. She told him she had
found man under her bed. He thought
at first it was that same old man women
are always finding. She convinced bin
finally, and he went out an got help.
She came back into the room alone, and
in a few minutes the men burst in and
snaked the fellow from under the
bed. He was completely fooled man,
an said that woman was So cool an nat
ural 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 baby. She
didn't suspect anything, am when she
found that there had been man under
the bed all the time she just up and
tainted away. That's how woman can
fool burglar if she keeps her wits
about her.
Zone foolish thing that women do is |
in getting their husbands to get up at
any noise and go chasing around the
hOuoesrtO locate it. Half the men who
hear 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 'eln. They make 'em
get out of bed and 90 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 a 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 depends,
as 1 SAID, OH the woman's keeping cool
am usin' her wit. After all, guess
you've got what ye wanted.