Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-12-19
THE IRISH WIDOW.
ELOQUENTLY DEFENDS A PROPOSE
TON OF WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

And Wakes RighteOusly Indignant
Over an Opinion That Wives should
Contribute In One Way or Another
to the Funds Of the Family.
"Fwhat nonsinse they dix put in the
paypers, Mrs. McGlaggerty," said the
| widow.
"Troth an they're full av nawthin
else but %nonsinse, Dim afther thinkin,
Mrs. Magoogin," said the neighbor.
can worse than nonsinse some av the
tonne, Mrs. McGlaggerty," the widow
replied. cts har-r-d to tell wan day
fwhat they'll have in the nuxt. Fwhin
it amt war, it's %soozycide, an fwhin it
amt soozycide it's Tannamy Hall, an
fwhin it amt Tannamy Hall it's the
tough roiders, an tough enough some av
thin LUX, begorrah, Mrs. McGlaggerty,
an SO it goes an fran day to day, wan
day this an wan day that, an the nuxt
day somethin else, until they don't laive
our swim sinses a leg to shtand upon,
Mrs. McGlaggerty. Sure Al do ye know
fwhat Inc daughter Toozy was readin to
me lasht noight? Oil how'd ye tin
cints ye'd nuver guess it in a thousand
years, Mrs. McGlaggerty. ,Av coorse ye
wudn't, an nayther wud amy wan else,
Mrs. MoGlaggerty.
sit was this: Somebody axed the
kustun shud a wolfe airn her own Twin,
an some ninny av a craythure-some
poi faced ovid maid, Oh suppose, that
has to airn her own an foinds it har-r-d
to make both inds mate, to say nawthin
av the tay an vigitibles, Mrs. McGlag-
gerty, ups with her pin an sez-yis, it's
nawthin but jusht al roight that the
wolfe shud pitch in an lind a hand to
the ovid man now all thin, an partickly
aft it shud be NECESSARY, do ye moind.
Now, fwhat dir ye think av that, Mrs.
McGlaggerty? The oidaya av sayin that
a wolfe shud go out to worruk to help
support her husband! Fwhy it's pre-.
posthorrius, Mrs. McGlaggerty.
"Fwhy fwhin my nan Dinny was
aloive he'd no more think av akin me
to go out to help him carry the hod
than he'd dar' to lift his hand to me-
rest his sowl, poor man! He behaved
in doin the worruk himself, an he
brought home his wages uvry Monday
noight as regularly as the clock, uxcept
now an thin whin he stopt in at Dinky-
spells an the cawrner an Charley
Hinnissy bate him a game ur two av
forty-foives. But as fur me goin out to
worruk-Dinny nd sooner cut his own
head ur fwhiskers off, as see me do it,
Mrs. McGlaggerty.
"Fwhat diz me daughter Toozy think
av it? Well, Oi don't uxactly know,
me frind. Av coorsc, she's dead shtuck
an D~elmonicky Gaysoonheit an thinks
because he plays gawrfs in short pants
an is the jood av Delaney sthreet, that
h's the whole shootin match, an theirs
no wan else loik him. OF annestly be-
laive meself, Mrs. McGlaggerty, that
she'd be oansha enough to go out an
worruk fur him aft he axt her, but aft
she uver did, me frind, an Oh caught
her at it, Old give her the dangdest
baitin she uver had since she was tin
years ovid, an as fur that corkscrew
shanked jood, Delmonioky, Ord hid a
how'll az him be the throat till Oi'd
choked him to death wild uvry wan av
his own cruked gawrf shticks, Mrs.
M~cGlaggerty.
"Pew.uhl Fwhat nonsinse to talk
about! Old loike to see the man that
shtands in two shoes that I'D make me
arm a pinny for him. The dassacity av
the oidaya, Mrs. McGlaggerty p'-New
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