The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-05
HE TOLD HER THE NEWS.
She Wasn't Bit Surprised at Anything
She Heard.

She Wasn't Bit Surprised at Anything
| She Heard.
1t was on a Michigan avenue car tn
! other afternoon. The man on the sea
beside her was reading newspaper
and after getting settled in the mids
of her parcels and bundles and regal
ing herself with pinch of Scotcl
snuff, she leaned over and said:
81 don't git much time to read tn.
papers nowadays, but 1 allus like te
hear what's goin' on. Is there any
news in pertickler?"
Nothing very exciting" he said, as
he sized her up out of the corner of his
eye. Here's an item about wife
killing her husband" -.
''Shoo! How'd she do it?"
"With an ak"
''Law me! Wall, she probably stood
| it and stood it until she couldn't stand
it no mora. It's awful how some hus.
bands carry On. Anything else?"
Here's an item about woman in
this state who drove her husband to
suicide by nagging him.
''Shoo! Jest kept jawin' and COM
plainin' from mornin' till night sup
pose, and he finally got SO tired that he
took piZen?"
ono, he hung himself"
''Wall, don't blame her a mite. He
was probably shiftless and lazy, and it
split her temper to see things goin'
down hill. She'll have chance now
to get married to better man"
I,
he pretended to read, ''of wife and
mother who ran away fl ON home with
a tin-peddler. leaving husband and
several children behind"
''Shoo! Does it give the perticlslers?"
cit says she is supposed to be little
fighty in her head"
''Wall, she amt bit flighty. She
done jest right. L know purity nigh
how it was She had all her house
work to do, and them young 'uns to
take keer of, and the husband was
probably fndin' fault all the time on
top O that. She jest slaved and slaved
till she was clean tired out. Some folks
think woman can bear anything, but
they can't. l s'pose the youngest child
was purity small?"
"Only seven months Old
'Wall, she probably hat'd to leave
it, but it would have been weaned in
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?"
'fWhy, l notice that woman has
just married her fifth husband and isn't
fifty years old yet. Her neigh bors are
80 indignant that they talk of driving
her away"
LA! Got her fifth, eh? Wall, if I
was that woman the nayburs might
talk ard be hanged to 'em. ] amt
fifty years old, n'ither, and I'm alvin
with nay fourth, and don't keer how
soon he goes l was powerfully de-
ceived in him
''Do you say that you'd marry again
Il he should die?'
''Sartin, and l wouldn't wait over six
either. Some folks think a
woman 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. "a
St. Louis doctor declares that the feet
Of Indiana women are gradually but
surely growing larger, and that in the
next fifty years to come every one of
them will want number seven shoe,
DR. larger"
''Shoo! He says that. does he?" -
'Yes' m"
Sand he's dOctOron
''Yes'm."
"Wall. he haint told no startlin'
news I've been wearin' number sew
ms ever since 1 was gal sixteen years
I'D, and I've got the smallest foot OF
my woman in our town as it is. [ did
eel kinder sorry when l diskivered
hat I'd left my spectacles on the
titchen clock-shelf at home. but if
hats all the news the papers kin rake
ID / guess I hain't missed moth nip
Detroit Free Press.