The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1892-02-06

Interesting Cuumvuta ON tho News Of
Day by "a Woman with 80 Glasses.
The man on the seat ahead of her was
reading a newspaper, and after getting
settled in the midst Of her parcels and
bundles aud regaling herself with a
pinch Of Scotch snuff, she leaned for
ward and said:
II don't git much time to read the pa
pors nowadays, but alius like to hear
what's goin on Is there any news in
pertioklerY
Nothing very exciting" he replied,
as he sized her up out OF tho corner Of
his eye. "Horo's an item about a wife
killing her husband"
"shool How'd she do ity'
"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 else;'
"Horo's an item about woman in this
state who drove her husband to suicide
by nagging him.
"Shool Jest kept iawin and complain
in from moruin till night, l suppose, and
/ he finally got so tired that he took
pizon3'
mo, he hung himself"
"Wau, l don't blanc her mite. He
was probably shiftless and lazy, and it
split her temper to see things goin down
hill. She'll have a chance now to git
married to a better man.
"And here's case" no continued as
he pretended to read, "of a wife and
mother who ran away from home with a
| tin peddler, leaving a husband and Sow
eral children behind
"Shool Does It give the particklers?'
ut says sho is supposed to be a little
aighty in her head
"Wall, she amt a bit highty. She
done jest right know purity nigh how
/ it was She had all her housawork to do
and them young 'uns to take koer Of, and
| tho husband was probably fndin 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 smallf'
"Only seven months old"
"Wall, she probably ha'@l TO leave it.
but it would h.ge beel %cauel in
couple Of months anyhow, and the father
kin bring it up on bottle. ltll serve
him right if it squalls half tho time.
Anything clset'
"Why, | notice that a woman has just
married her fifth husband, and isn't
fifty years old yet. Her ueighbors are
so indignant that they talk of driving
her away"
"Lal Got her fifth, eh? Wall, If
was that woman the nayburs might talk
and blow and DO hanged to EN-. l amt
fifty years old, nithor, and I'm a-livin
with my fourth, and don't keer how soon
ho goes was powerfully deceived In
him."
"Do you say that you'd marry again II
he should die?'
"Sartin, and I wouldn't wait over six
months, either. Some folks think wo-
man has no rights, but she has, and she's
fool If she don't assert EN-"
"This may interest you," said the
man, as he turned tho 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 ono OF them will
want a No. shoe"
"Shoo He says that, does he?"
"Yeam."
"And he's a doctor2"
"Yesm."
"Wall, he hain't told no startlin news.
Two 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
diskivered that I'd left my spectacles on
the kitchen clock shelf at home, but II
that's all tho news the papers kin rake
up guess hain't missed nothingr'-
New York World