Los Angeles herald., 1892-02-13
DIDN'T MISS MUCH.

Interesting Comments on the NEWS OF
Day by Woman with No Glasses.
The man on the seat ahead of her was
reading newspaper, and after getting
settled in the midst of her parcels and
bundles and regaling 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 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 an item about wife
killing her husband"
''Shool How'd she do it?"
"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 else?"
"Here's an item about woman in this
state who drove her husband to suicide
by nagging him."
"Shooi Jest kept jawin and complain
in from mornin till night, suppose, and
he finally got SO tired that he took
pizenw
"No, 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, as
he pretended to read, "of q wife and
mother who ran away from home with
tin peddler, leaving husband and sew
eral children behind"
"Shool Does it give the perticklers%
"It says she is supposed to be little
fighty in her head"
"Wall, she amt bit fighty. She
done jest right. l know purity nigh how
it was. She had all her housework 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
slaved and slaved till she couldn't slave
no more. Some folks think a woman can
bear everything, but they can't. I 'spose
the youngest child was purity smallg'
"Only seven months DID,"
"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 it squalls half the time.
Anything else?'
"Why, notice that 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, eh? Wall, if l
was that woman the nayburs might talk
and blow and be hanged to 'em. amt
fifty years old, nither, and I'm alvin
with my fourth, and don't keer how soon
he goes. ! was powerfully deceived in
him."
"Do you say that you'd marry again if
he should die?"
'Sartin, and / 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 'em."
"This may interest you," said the
man, as he turned the paper over. ga
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 will
want No. shoe"
"Shoo! He says that, does he?"
"Yes'm."
"And he's doctor?"
"Yes'm."
"Wa1l, he hain't told no startlin news.
I've been wearin No. rs ever since was
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
up guess hain't missed nothing"-
New York World.