Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-30

WY, ID yOu IeueiuUcI, Ctc., ctC. lueu He
cited large number of instances, as many
as he could stand at one dose.
Noble Case Of Devotion.
"Well, one dav. just as she had said, he
started out from the shore as if he expected
to swim across the ocean. She was on the
float and saw him coming. He got on
pretty we'll till he was within 30 feet OF her,
and then he threw up his hands and went
down. She was after him in an instant,
and Just as he was going down for the third
time she seized him by the hair. She ap-
peared to know from experience just where
to grab him in order to get the best hold.
Then she started with him for shore. Solo
mon, said she, what did tell you about
this?' tell you that was hard question
for man with his stomach full OF sea water
to digest My DEAR he gasped, are you
going to keep asking me that question all
the rest of our lives? Because, if you are,
please let me drop
"Well, gentlemen, admired that woman
for her conduct. She asked her own soul
whether she could keep from holding that
thing over him for the rest of his days and
she was forced to answer in the negative.
It was more than any woman could do. She
sav what life would be to him; she remem-
bered her duty as wire; and, gentlemen,
though she would have enjoyed holding
that thing over him more than any woman
I ever saw. she gave up that pleasure; she
let him 60 and swan ashore widow"
"Let us drink to her health" said the
Member of the Bar 'She was noble and
remarkable woman"
A Woman of Inferior Intellect.
'But the case had in mind" said the
Commercial Traveller, 'fs an even more per-
feet illustration of a woman's self-sacri6ce.
When was young man my friend, John
w. Butler, married a girl who was greatly
his inferior in intellect. This is not an un-
common error Few men notice this mental
inequality before marriage, but I have
never known anyone who failed to discover
it afterward. Men who did not know as
much as this piece of apple pie which am
eating have often depI red in my presence
the intellectual interiority of woman. It is
thing SO plain that any fool can see it.
But John was man of strong mind, who
always used his reason in every case, and
never Jumped at conclusions It annoyed
him, therefore, to see that his wife
could not draw an inference, and didn't
want to. In the solitude of their
home he didn't so much mind, but when
others were present he was always in agony
for tear that she would say something silly.
When he brought a friend home to dinner
he warned the visitor not to judge Mrs
Butler from her conversation, for, although
she was mentally deficient, she was an ad-
mirabIe cook and a very useful woman to
have around the house. 1t was not long,
therefore, before all Johns friends got to
that everything Mrs. Butler said
was idiotic, whether it was or not.
"She was very talkative, even for
woman, ard used to delight to hear her
run on in her innocent, childlike simplicity;
but it was misery for John. At first he
didn't know how to check her, and would
sit and wiring his hands while she was talk
ing, and try to fix his mind upon counting
in order not to hear the mistakes
that she made.