The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1893-01-06
. svru.aws. 1r,surs TO WOMAN.

nsv . Cool Headed Girl Captured
Rsssal Hiding Uader the bed.
.sThe best way for q woman to do II
She woke up and found man at work
in her room" says burglar, would
be TO keep very still and pretend she
was still sleeping, or, il he knew that
she had seen him, to obey his orders
and keep still. II he thought she
had submitted, he wouldn't watch
her 30 hard, and it would give her
time TO think what to do There's
one thing, though, that would DO
had for a woman. II . burglar left
her room by the door she ought to
listen to his footstep or watch the
light O his lantern, an she don't
want to get out o bed or move until
he ia well outof hearing.
"A man who goes out that way
will always stop when he has gone a
few feet from the door where WON
an is. and, IL he hears her jump ont
of bed at onct, he suspects what she's
nm to. and would then escape by the
nearest window and be out OF her
reach, or else he would 60 back an
make il dangerous for her. She wants
ter be cunnin. Then she can catch
him. It was a smart girl and cool
girl that got away with fellow !
know. He had got into the second
story window and had just about
landed when he heard two women
comm. He crawled under the bed
and got out O. sight. The women
came in and undressed and got into
bed.
when he thought they had been
in bed long enough to get asleep he
began to work out A dim light had
been left in the room. He had just
got his head to the edge OF the bed
and his hand and arm were sticking
out beyond the bed, when he found
one of the women was getting out o
bed. She stepped square on his arm,
and looking down saw him. % II
seemed. draw it back. She went
across the room and turned up the
gas and began looking around the
dressing table.
In a minute she called to the
> other woman, Mary, wake up The
woman got awake, an the other says,
What did do with that letter that
came this afternoon The one In
bed didn't seem to recall the letter
but finally she seemed to and thu
girl on the floor said: 1t worries me
/ can't sleep. must go down stair
and see if left it in the parlor. Thu
other one said, All right an the frs
girl calmly took lot Of matches
/. Just as if she meant to light the ga
~ and went out Of the room. but sh
didn't 60 any farther than the room
where a man was sleeping. She toll
him she had found man under he
II bed. He thought at first it was tina
same old man women are AWAY
finding. She convinced him finally
an he went out an got help
.She came back into the roor
alone. and in few minutes the me
burst in and snaked the fellow fror
under the ted. He was completed
fooled man. an said that woman wa
80 cool an natural about 1t that b
- never should have suspected her
the world. But the best part OF
- was that after the first woman le
the room the other was just as quiz
- and happy there as a baby. 81
- didn't suspect anything, an when 81
:. found that there had been man u
der the bed all the time she just I
and tainted away. That's how
woman can fool q burglar if 81
keeps her wits about her.
: One foolish thing that women
is in getting their husbands to get
at any noise and go chasing arouI
the house to locate it, Half the mt
who hear q noise in the house wou
think it had some good explanatio
an turn over an go to sleep agai
But their wives won't let EN-. tn
u make EN- get out Of bed and
roaming around hunting for possii
thieves. That's whore the misch
comes in. The man don't stand
IA good q show as the woman does.
the woman would only turn over
:. 20 to sleep herself shed save a 60
] many of the lives that are i
through burglars.
"All thieves know that women
their greatest dangers, an nine-ten'
of the burglars who are captured
nvs caught through women; but 1t
ponds, as / said, on the woma
keeping cool an usin her wits. IN
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