The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1892-02-13

nnauunuaane W~mmanss On The News % q
Day By q Woman with No GlasseA
The man on tho seat ahead Of her was
reading . ne wspaper, and after getting
settled in tho midst Of her parcels aud
bundles and RECALLING herself with Il
pinch Of Scotch snuff, she leaned for
ward and said:
ii 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 ont of the corner o.
his eye. Heres IN item about wife
killing her husband"
"Shoo! How'd she do it*'
with an AK"
claw me! Wall. she probably stood
it and stood it until she couldn't stand
it no more. It's awful how some nus
bands do carry on. Anything else?'
Heres an item about woman in this
state who drove her husband to suicide
by nagging him."
"Shoo! Jest kept jawin and complain
in from mornin till night | suppose, and
he finally got 80 tired that be took
pizen:"
"No, he hung himself"
"Wall, don't blame her q 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 a case" he continued. as
he pretended to read, ''Of wife and
mother who ran away from home with 81
tin peddler, leaving a husband and sey
eral children behind"
"Shoo! Does it give the perticklers2
ut says she is supposed to be little
Eighty in her head
"Wall, she amt o bit Tightly. She
done jest right. | know purity nigh how
1t was. She had all her homework to Go
and them young uns to take keor Of, and
the husband was probably findin faul:
all the time on top o that. She jest
shaved and shaved till she couldn't slave
no more. Some folks think woman can
bear everything, but they can't. 'spose
tho youngest child was purity slnallT'
only seven months old"
"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 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"
LA! Got her fifth, chr Wall, if |
was that woman the nayburs might tall:
and blow and be hanged to EN-. 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 EN-"
This may interest you," said the
man, as he turned the 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 como every one Of them will
want a No. shoe"
''Shoo! He says that. does heT
"Yes'm."
"And he's DOCTOR
"Yes'm."
"Wall, he hain't told no startlin news.
I've been wearin No. rs ever since | was
q gal sixteen years old, and I've got the
smallest foot Of any woman in our town
rs it is. did feel kinder sorry when
diskivered that I'd left my spectacles or
the kitchen clock shelf at home, but if
that's all the news the papers kin rake