The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-04-18
ae 1oLn HEB HE NEWS.
She Wasn't n BIt Surprised At Anything
She Heard.

She Heard
II was on a Michigan avenue car the
other afternoon The man on the seat
beside her was reading a newspaper,
and after getting settled in the midst
Of her parcels and bundles and regal
ing herself with a pinch of Scotch
snuff. she leaned over and said:
Il don't git much time to read the
papers nowadays, bHt allus like to
hear what's goin' on Is there any
news in pertickler?"
Nothing very exciting, he said, as
he sized her up ont Of the corner Of his
eve. Here's an item about wife
I killing her husband "
s.Shoo. How'd she do ite"
with an ak"
.Law mel Wall, she probably stood
| II and stood it until she couldn't stand
It no more. It's awful how some hus-
bands carry on. Anything else?'
Here's an item about woman in
/ this state who drove her husband 10
suicide by nagging him"
.-Shoo, Jest kept jawin' and COM
plainin' from mornin' till night, l sup
pose, and he finally got so tired that ne
took pizen?'
NO he hung himself
ssWau. I don't blame her a mite. He
was probably shiftless and lazy, and It
sp'ilt her temper TO see things goin'
down hill She'll have a chance now
TO get married to a better man.
and here's 4 case," he continued, as
he pretended TO read, ''of a wife and
mother who ran away fIom home with
a tin-peddler. leaving husband and
several children behind
''Shoo. Does it give the perticllers'"
SIT says she + supposed 70 be q little
fighty in her head"
.'Wall, she amt a bit highty. She
done lest 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 findin' fault all the time on
ton o. that She Jest shaved and slaved
tin she was clean tired ont. Some folks
think a woman can bear anything, but
they can't Is'Pose the youngest child
was purity small?"
"Only seven months old"
"Wall. she probably hat d TO leave
Il. but it would have been weaned in
couple of months, anyhow, and the
father kin bring it up on a bottle. tn
serve him right If it squalls half the
time. Anything else?"
''Why, / notice that n woman has
Just married her fifth husband and isn't
ffty years old yet Her neighbors are
50 indignant that they talk Of driving
her away"
Ia, Got her fifth, en-? Wall, if I
was that woman the nayburs might
ak and be hanged TO 'em. ] amt
City years old, n'ither, and I'm alvin
with my fourth, and don't keer how
soon he goes was powerfully de-
ceived in him
DO you say that you'd marry again
If he should die?"
''Sartin, and l wouldn't wait over six
months, either Some folks think a
woman has no rights. but she has, and
she's fool if she don't assert EN-"
''This may interest you" said the
nan, as he turned the paper over. "A
81. Louis doctor declares that the feet
If Indiana women are gradually but
surely growing larger, and that in the
lext fifty years to come every one OF
them will want a number seven shoe,
or larger"
'Shool He says that, does hep"
"Yesm." ~
"And he's a doctor?"
"Yes'm."
.sWan. he hain't told no startlinr
aews I've been wearin' number sew
zns ever since was gal sixteen yeaIl
old, and I've got the smallest foot Of
, any woman in our town as it IS did
feel kinder sorry when ! diskivered
that I'd left my spectacles on the
kitchen clock-shelf at home. but If
that's all the news the papers kin rake
up guess l hain't missed moth n'.'-
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