The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-11-22
ALL THE NEWS.
Some Highly Interesting Observations on
the Subject.

Some Highly Interesting Observations on
the Subject.
1t was on Michigan avenue car the
other afternoon. The man on the seat be-
side her was readings newspaper and after
getting settled in the midst of her parcels
and bundles and regaling herself with a
pinch of Scotch snuff she leaned over and
said:
~ 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 per.
,icker2'
Nothing very exciting, he replied as he
sized her up out of the corner of his eye
Here's an item about wife killing her
husband"
"Shool How'd she do it'"
with an AK"
Law mel WAL, she probably stood it
and stood it until she couldn't stand it no
more. It's awful how some husbands car
ry on. Anything else?"
Here's an item about a woman in this
state who drove her husband to suicide by
nagging him."
"Shool Jest kept jawin and complainin
from mornin till night, l suppose, and he
finally got SO tired that he took pizeny"
mo, he hung himself"
"Waal, don't blame her 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 n bet
ter man."
And here's case, "he continued as he
pretended to read, "of a wife and mother
who ran away from home with a tin ped.
dler, leaving a husband and several chill
dren behind"
friN ba Tarti pl.
ut says she is supposed to be little
Eighty in her head.
"Waal, she amt bit Eighty She done
Jest right l know purity nigh how it was.
She had all her housework to do and them
young uns to take keer of, and the husband
was probably findin fault all the time on
top o. that. She jest shaved and shaved till
she was clean tired out Some folks think
a woman can bear anything, but they can't.
s'pose the youngest child was purity
smallf"
"Only months old"
"Waal, 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 a bottle. It'll serve him
right if it squalls half the time. Anything
elsei"
why, / notice that woman has just
married her fifth husband and isn't 30
years old yet Her neighbors are so indig-
nant that they talk of driving her away"
La! Got her fifth, ehS WAL, if was
that woman, the nayburs might talk and
hanged to 'em. amt 50 years old, nither,
and Pm 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 HI
should dief"
"Sartin, and l wouldn't wait over si'
months either. Some folks think a woman
: has no rights, but she has, and she's foo
if she don't assert 'em."
This may interest you" said the man
as he turned the paper over. "A st. Loui
doctor declares that the feet of indiana
women are gradually but surely growing
larger, and that in the next so years t,
come every one of them will want No.
shoe, or larger"
''Shool He says that, does he?"
"Yes'm."
And he's doctori"
"Yes'm."
"Waal, he hain't told no startlin news
I've been wearin No. rs ever since | wa
gal IS years old, and I've got the small
est foot of any woman in our town as it is
did feel kinder sorry when | diskivere,
that I'd left my spectacles on the kitchei
clockshelf at home, but if that's all tn
, news the papers kin rake up l guess
, hain't missed Northumberland Free Press