The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-05-10
ALL THE NEWS.
Some Highly Interesting Observations on
the subject.


It was on a Michigan avenue car tine
other afternoon. The man on the seat be-
side her was readinga newspaper, and after
getting settled in the midst of her parcels
aud bundles and RECALLING herself with a
pinch Of Scotch snuff she leaned over and
said:
81 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
ticklers'
Nothing very exciting, he replied as he
sized her up out Of the corner Of his eye.
Here's su item about wife killing her
husband"
Shoe! How'd she do itf"
with an AK
Law me! Wal she probably stood it
and stood il until she couldn't stand it no
more. It's awful how some husbands car
ny 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, suppose, and he
finally got 80 tired that he took pizenW
mo, he hung himself"
"Waal, don't blame her mite He wac
probably shiftless and lazy, and it split heI
temper to see things goin down hill She'll
have a chance now to get married to bet.
ter man.
And here's "A case, ;" he continued as he
pretended to read, "of wife and mother
who ran away from home with tin ped.
der, leaving "A husband and several chill
dren behind"
"Shool Does it give the perticklersi"
at says she is supposed to be little
Eighty in her head"
"Waal, she amt bit Eighty. She done
Jest right. 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 fndin fault all the time on
top o. that. She jest shaved and shaved till
she was clean tired out Some folks think
awoman can bear anything, but they can t.
| s'pose the youngest child was purity
smallY
"Only months old"
WAL, 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
elseF
why, | notice that woman has just
married her fifth husband and isn't 90
years blu ltJ. I1tI DOlBnDOTS are 50 mug
nant that they talk of driving her away"
'Lal Got her fifth, ehi WAL, if | was
that woman, the nayburs might talk and
hanged to 'em. amt 80 years old, n'ither,
| 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 he
should diei"
"Sartin, and / wouldn't wait over six
months either Some folks think 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 so years to
come every one of them will want No I
shoe, or larger"
"Shool He says that, does he?"
| "Yes'm"
And he's a doctory"
"Yes'm."
WAL, he hain't told no startlin news
! I've been wearin No. rs ever since | was
a gal 10 years old, and I've got the small
est foot of any woman in our town as it is
| did feel kinder sorry when ! dislivered
that I'd left my spectacles on the kitchen
clockshelf at home, but if that's all the
news the papers kin rake up | guess
hain't missed nothin!'-Detroit Free Press