The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-02-13
Didn't Miss Much,

The mau on the seat ahead of her was
reading newspaper, and after getting
settled in the midst of her parcels and
bundles and RECALLING herself with 4 pinch
of Scotch snuff, she leaned forward and
said:
Il don't git much time to read the
papers nowadays, but allus like to hear
what's goin on. Is there any news il
pertick lel?'
Nothing very exciting" he replied
as he sized her out of the corner of his
eye. Here's an item about wife kill
ing her husband"
Shoe! How'd she do it:''
with an AK.
Law me, Wall, she probably stood
it and stood it until she couldn't stand II
no more. It's awful how some husbands
do carry on. Anything else?"
Here's an item about woman III
this state who drove her husband tt
suicide by nagging him"
Shoe. Jest kept jawin and complainir
from mornin till night, | suppose, and he
finally got 50 tir, d that he took pizen?,
mo hung himself"
''Wall, don't blame her mite He
was probably shiftless and lazy, and il
split her temper to see things goin down
hill. She'll have a chance now to gi;
married to better man.
''And here's case,'' he continued, as
he pretended to read, "of wife and
mother who ran away from home with a
tin peddler, leaving husband aud
several children behind
"Shoo. Does 1t give the pertlclels? .
sit says she is supposed to be little
Eighty in her head
''Wall she amt bit tiighty. c
done jest right. | know purity nigh how
it was. She had all her homework to dc
and them young, uIs to take keer Of
and the husband was probably finding
fault all the time on top o'that. She
jest shaved till she couldn't slave no
more. Seine folks think woman eau
bear everything, bat they cant. 'srost
the youngest child was purity smal?'
"Ouly seven months old"
"Wall, she probably hated to leave i
but it would have been weaned in a
couple of months anyhow and tho lathe
kin bring it up on a bottle. It'll serve
him right if it squalls half the tint
Anything else?"
why, | notice that woman has Just
married her fifth husband, and isn't fifty
years old yet. Her neig hbors are Sc
indignant that they talk OF driving mel
away"
La. Got her fifth, Ell? Wall, if was
that woman the nay burs might talk al
blow aud be hanged to EN-. | amt fifty
years old, neither, and I'm Twin will
my fourth, and don't keer how soon he
goes. was powerfully deceived in him
"Do you say that you'd marry agair
if he should die?'
''Sartin, and wouldn't wait over six
SlSutI. Cplllc iOIhS Gulhh d
woman has no rights, but she has and
she's fool if she don't assert EN-"
This may interest you," said 'he man
as he turned the paper over. g. st,
Louis doctor declares that the feet N
women are gradually but surely growing
larger, and that in the next fifty years tc
come every one of them will want No.
I shOe.'
"Shoo. He says that, does hep"
~ es'm."
"And he's DOCTOR"
"Yes'm.''
"Wall, he hain't told no startin news
I've been wearing No. rs ever sinc9
was a gal sixteen years old, and I've got
the smallest foot of any woman in ouI
town as it is. ! feel kinder sorry when
diskivered that I'd left my spectacles
on the kitchen clock shelf at home, but
if that is all the news the papers kin rake
up guess haiu't missed nothing"