The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-01-07
AUNT KATIE DE-
tends HER LADIES.

| Deer Mister Editor: I'm a right ole W.
| man to be writin' my rust letter ~
| man an him a newspaper fenow at .na''
ars IN fac aint a writin' OF IL with
men. but with my tongue, which some
| folks do say IL sharper'n manthas ~,
| eyed two" an my grandauShte,' ~
is a doin the pen part FUR me. enc 49,,
a goIn' to skulc fur mos a year. an ga"
een'ally do fust-rate with the lons "o'.''
She's a sight better oh'n US 10 pc
The only things wimmen larned in my
srule dava was the dictionary, the gran
,,a--r never could make out howcum they
90 call n that. fur ] don't recollec seem
q thing I'm IL bout us wimmen. Inc one
+ us'tor study didn' even teach us-l can I
,binL a. the long word now. but il means
what things come from.-which wouid
a made II all plain, cause We did come
from gran'mas. all ON us! AS were saSin'
we learned dictionary gran ma an tns
MULTIPLICATION table, only, never coula
master nothln' but the gran ma; so now
ON occasions like the present Il see that
I'm the paper) my granddaughter Rosa
she puts the things down while I'm
sayin' OF 'em.
Now, Mister Editer, what Tn after sayin
is this; My granddaughter. Rosa, she read
out o. the Times to me Sunday, an what
she read upset me consid rable!
She read bout the married firts an
the other kind o. bad married wimmen
that Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox an Mis-
ter John Mexico toi' about.
Now, Sir, Use bin a nurse fur nigh onto
forty-year, an amt none o my ladies Din
like that.
. don't know nothin' on earth agin MIS-
Ella Wheeler Wilcox but she sure knows
4efe Tcbn Mexico
it's my opinion he's sour! Folks mos al
lers think what they want 10 think, an
tween YOU an me, ne wouidn' have 80
many tales to tell on his friends wives,
II ali O. the ladies had been good 10 HIM
La no. Sir l knows folks, do, an men
In pouclar'
NV granddaughter, Rosa, she sees him on
the street sumtimes, an she DO say MS
knows Is big. very big.-which Is a bad
sine-an' his hair Is mighty nigh red; So
10 be sure, nobody wouldn' have nun,
less 'twere one Of them single saints that
he wrote so fcelin' about! I'd like 10 see
Mister Mexico one timel I'd Ike 10 tel
him a few O. the things I've larned since
I've bin a nurse.
rally think, If he could
"Go ser what have seen,
Go feel what ! have felt'
Go I'm. whar | have been,
An smell what / have smelt'-
he'd larn not TO offer advice to his betters.
T couId tell him of wimmen who 30 out
in the world with smiles an gay words
fur the crowd, who come home at night
10 sob an pray over their drunken nus
bans: Of wimmen who thank God fur Ia
kin o. their innocent babies away from
The exampies set by the men they honor
INN "a different
spere who are struggling TO support, not
only a lot O children but the lazy, drunk
en- father as well.
WHY sir, ] knows lady, Intimate, that
got married befo' she were eighteen years
ole a hefo she were twenty she were
the sole support o. the family Befo' me
fust year was out, her husban he got
| drunk, like TO "a killed a man. los his
Mace. an from that day to this, an It's
goin' on twenty-five year. ne amt worked
enough 10 keep him I'm whisky, but steals
his wife's hard earned wages to git drunk
on, Now. JUS think o that
An I know another mean man; not
drunkard. nor a liar, nor a thief as
knows ON. but what pears to me mos as
bad. a selfish man. A man that would
cit madder'n wet hen If he hear you
say he want no gent'man. Cent man in
decd! That man lays I'm bed an lets ms
wife a DOOR, sickly woman, cit up an
make the fire fur him 10 git up an dress
by! If the cook don't sit thar his VIE
has TO heat herself mp a fryin' caS"s FUR
his breakfas, an like as not he'll go an
tell her they amt good.
n she puts on her Sunday clothes IN
hurry. so as to go out with him, ten TO
one he'll tell her why don't she look
,onnosed an easy like Mrs. Suchanone."
.1.ff hot 81
umberel over him; when it rains he totes
II over hisse'f, an she may go drown! l
see EN- goin' TO market. sumtimes, she
! totin' the basket. an him a totin' the
| money. He smokes an chaws his tobacco,
but I amt never see her take no shuH
| nor chaw no gum.
Them aint by no means the only mean
men could tell about nurse hears
| sight more'n most folks.
| No matter how thick the curtain that
| hides the family life from the world n
| nurse is sure 10 have business benin IT.
| Now Mister Editer. 7 won't take up 10
more o. your time but you jus please 10
| ion Mr.. John Mexico fur me, that If he
| otis arter nv ladies' any more, ! snail
| foel obleeged 20 tel a few things on the
| men.
Not that considers all men bad
| LOT not by no means; but, ] stick 10 H.
the winlmen is good enough iur em-pieh-
| tyl
Yours most rerespec' fui.
KATIE HARRIS.-NURSE.
y II YOU knows Of any ra'al lady
vhat wants a white nurse fur not more n
one child, an Is wiliin' to pay fity-doi-
lars a month, with seprate sweet orooms.
includin' bath. an me not TO be bothered
with the child arter p. NJ, please send
| her 10 see me.