Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-06-07
DIDN'T MISS MUCH.

Day BY Woman with No Glasses.
The man on the seat shead OF her was
reading newspaper. and after getting |
settled in the midst OF her parcels and |
bundles and regaling herself with .
pinch OF Scotch snuff, she leaned for
ward and said:
Il don't git much time to read the pa-
pers nowadays, but allus like to hear
what's goin on. Is there any news in
pertickler?"
Nothing very exciting he replied,
as he sized her up out OF the corner Of
his eye. Here's en- item about q wife
killing her husband"
'Shoo! How'd she do itsr
with an Ak"
Law mel 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'
"Here's an item about woman in this
state who drove her husband to suicide
by nagging him."
'sShoo! Jest kept jawin and complain
in from mornin till night, | suppose, and
he finally got so tired that he took
pizen?'
mo, he hung himself"
"Wall, don't blame her mite. He
was probably shiftless and lazy, and it
split her temper to see things goin down
hill. She'll have chance now to git
married to better man"
"And here's case" he continued, al
he pretended to read, ..of a wife and
mother who ran away from home with q
tin peddler, leaving husband and sew
eral children behind"
'.Shool Does it give the perticklers?'
"lt says she is supposed to be iittls
, Tightly in her head
j, wall, she amt bit Tightly. Sh'
| done jest right. | know purity nigh how
! it was. She had all her homework to d
] and them young 'uns to take keer Of, AM
, the husband was probably fndin faul
! all the time on top o that. She jes
, shaved and shaved till she couldn't slav
, no more Some folks think a woman ca
& bear everything, but they can't. | 'spos
: the youngest child was purity smallY'
. "Only seven months old"
I wall, she probably hated to leave i
. but 1t would have been weaned in
couple of months anyhow, and the fathe
kin bring it up on bottle. It'll sery
r him right if it squalls half the tim
. Anything else?"
q "Why, notice that woman has ju
. married her fifth husband, and ISL
h fifty years old yet. Her neighbors a
n so indignant that they talk of drivir
her away"
II "La! Got her fifth, eh? Wall, if
# was that woman the nayburs might ia
~ and blow and be hanged to EN-. all
ar fifty years old, nither, and I'm a-liv
"a with my fourth, and don't keer how so
A. he goes. was powerfully deceived
n him."
e. "Do you say that you'd marry again
ia he should der
m 'sSartin, and wouldn't wait over {
"a months, either Some folks think "
m man has no rights, but she has, and sh
III fool if she don't assert EN-"
q. "This may interest you," said
~ man, as he turned the paper over.
in St. Louis doctor declares that the feet
od women are gradually but surely gro
ha ing larger, and that in the next ii
i,s years to come every one of them "
m want No. Z shoe"
vol "Shoo! He says that, does her"
Il sYes'm."
an "And he's a doctor?'
,o+ "Yes'm."
nm wall, he hain't told no startlin ne
.ba I've been wearin No. rs ever since '
nk gal sixteen years old, and I've got
-be smallest foot of any woman in our to
tar as it is did feel kinder sorry whe
ts diskivered that I'd left my spectacles
"a the kitchen clock shelf at home, bu
.s that's all the news the papers kin
me- up guess | hain't missed nothing
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