The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-11
HIS WIFE AN INSPIRATION.
PLEASURE AND PROFIT DERIVED
FROM HER INGENIOUS WAYS.


man.
'Is an angel, of course remarked the
cynic
mo, not yet, thank heaven" calmly. st
was going to say that my wife earns
her board and clothes every week of the
year. and vet, so far as l know, she hes
practically nothing to do"
II suppose she smooths the troubled
brow of care and all that sort of thing"
Sometimes. But that wasn't what
meant. See there?' and the newspaper
man pulled down his cuff and pointed 10
some pencilled notes.
Fork, L seats, mat hour, blind beg
CARS Agt de voitures'-what in thunder Is
all that?' demanded the cynic.
That's her yesterdays contribution to
the family purse"
''But don't'-
1T know you don't I'm going to ex-
plain. I think I'm safe in believing that
nobody can tap this wire"
What do YOU
Mean? Well, when say wire, In this
case, mean that my wife Is perfect bu-
reau Of information when At comes to
out-of-the way happenings. She isn't
gadabout but not day passes that she
doesn't entertain me at dinner with all
sorts of odds and ends, with interesting
things she has seen, with bits of CONVEX
sation she has overheard, with troubles
which are original, and with CLEANS of
satisfaction over something you never had
noticed She's a perfect mine Of clews
for newspaper stories.
sort of partner in the business, eh?'
Eyes, but she doesn't realize il. She sees
a long article about something she has
mentioned, and she Is so pleased to think
I took an interest in IT! / don't want
her to get into the professional hunt for
news I know from my own experience
that 1t will spoil her irresponsible pleas
ure in things And I'm afraid, too that 1t
win take away the freshness of her view
of things. So I simply put down word on
my cuff while she chatters on, and after
wards I do what 1 can with these hints
but those you have there, for instance
What do they mean?"
Different things. Take fork for in
stance. Last night at dinner / dropped my
fork and when picked it up my wife be-
gan to laugh and said; John you won't
do for the city haH park
"'Whats the matter with meT asked
You drop your fork too often, she
said Down there / saw man going
which had blown over the grass. and in
stead of stopping over and picking up each
SCRAP he speared it with a long-handled
fork He'd stick two or three before he
pulled them off and put them in bag he
| had over his shoulder. Then he'd stick
two or three more. He didn't have to stoop
| over once. I suppose that fork saves his
back from breaking in two
Ibid you ever notice that fork?' asked
/ Tho nauvsrSaper man of the CyDic.
| mo"
"Neither did I; and yet I've been going
through the park for years. The man ana
his fork are there, however, 81 ~
We'll" said the cynic, how about the
L seats!'
1.-THE L seats?" repeated the newspaper
man. "It was this way. My wife said TO
| me last night: John, haven't I heard some
| thing about the press moulding public
| opinion?
/ opined that in all probability she had.
Wen then she said, I want you to do
a little moulding to please me-
"Of course said that / would settle pub
lie opinion in a minute TO please her"
AN right she said It's about the
cross-seats in the 81" cars. OF course I
like to sit there and of course do sit
| there when / get a good chance. To-day
| Mrs. - and 1 got on the downtown train
| at Fifty-eighth street and took one OF the
| cross-seats facing forward. One man was
| in the seat back of us and one man each
| in the two seats across the aisle. Al the
next station several passengers got on and
| most of them dropped into the seats at the
| end of the car. One man, however, came
to the middle and with calm look at us
| sat down. facing us in our section. Do you
J see? Instead of doing the natural and most
| comfortable thing, that is, going into
section where there was only one passen-
| ger he planted himself opposite US be-
| cause we were women. or course, theIe
! was the usua9 asserting of feet so as 10 get
| three pairs settled, and of course, we were
ANNOYED because he had intruded. l
wouldn't care at all if the other seats had
| heen as full as ours, though even then the
| gentlemanly thing to do would be 10 SIT
! down opposite two men rather than oppo-
site two women. It wasn't the slight crowd
| ing that minded, but the barefaced intru-
sion into women's presence when the other
seats were even more inviting IN theih-
selves, but held only men,
well" said the newspaper man, OF
course. I said that she mustn't pay any
| attention 10 1t, because the man VINO would
do that sort of thing is beneath her no.
tice. But she said that 1t has happened
hundreds of times, and she is getting SICK
and tired Of il. She says that the men
who do il are not of the rougher class,
from whom a woman ought to expect cour-
tesy. She said that the other day she
went downtown In a car where there was
one passenger in each of the four cross
sections. She was the only woman among
the four. At Fiftieth street man got
on, came along the aisle and calmly sat
down at her side! He not only avoided
tha other sections, containing only one
man each, but he even made her share her
seat with him. She got up and took seat
near the door. What else could she do?
A thing like that is an insult, and all
the neaner because a woman can't resent
it, / got madder about IL than she was
but I'm afraid can't carry out my prom
Use about public opinion"
The cynic was thoughtful for minute
or two, then he asked about the mat
hour"
"Oh, that wasn't anything very much
My wife was going to the matinee and