The record-union., 1899-01-22
WOMAN'S INTUITION.

(Written for Record-Union by Beselena.)
When he first appeared upon the
scene he made himself instantly agree
able to the ladies by an immense
amount of 1attery, judiciously admin
istered. He even won the heart of the
cantankerous widow of the establish
ment by admiring her pug dogs intel
ligence. He could not with any amount
of flattery have induced even the wild
owed owner Of the canine in question to
have believed in the beasts beauty, but
he could be credited with subtle in
sight into the pug's intelligence which
had escaped the less observing and
more prejudiced of the boarders. One
could not help but admire the mans
artfulness when he praised the widow S
pet, but it became palpably evident,
even to his admirers, that he wasn't
sincere when he was heard to openly
declare that the old maid boarder, who
is 60 if she's day, was beauty; of
course the younger women shifted when
they heard this. but he explained it sat-
isfactorily to them. He had a cheerful
way of extricating himself from un-
pleasant situations quite beautiful to
behold.
But if he was popular with the wo-
men he was correspondingly unpopular
with the men. They never lost an op-
portunity of informing the gent1er sex
that this exceedingly affable gentle
man was married, and. Furthermore,
said the men, they believed his wife was
g. poor, meek, insignificant little woman
who didn't dare say her soul was her
own, and even went so far as to say
that this idol of the ladies was f1irt.
In this latter assertion the men were
prompted to, aided and abetted by the
younger gentlemen, who felt that their
place by the ladies' side was being
usurped and monopolized by this
stranger He certainly made himself
exceedingly agreeable. He was the
head and front of all their pleasures;
he instituted theater parties; drives
over the country; evenings of whist and
impromptu entertainments. Only one
thing marred his perfection and that
was the time he sullxed for week
when the unmarried set gave a dinner
to which he was not invited. Such all
attitude on his part almost made the
ladies' lose faith in him, it almost caused
them to think that he was a prey to the
horrible green-eyed monster jealousy.
But after due consideration they took
his bad temper as a compliment to
themselves and the threatened out
break was happily averted.
When he had been with us some
weeks, he one day made the announce
ment that he was going away. At this
const formation reigned supreme. How,
asked the ladies helplessly, were they
ever to entertain again without him
Forgetting the fact that they had man
aged to entertain fairly well before the
advent of this interesting stranger.
When he had actually departed and
been seen off on the train the men
breathed easier, but took pains to in
form the fair mourners that he had
gone for his wife, and darkly insinuated
that when she came a stop would be
put upon his gay and festive career. The
women shifted and said they didn't be-
lieve any such thing, while the men
oracularly said: wait and seei"
They didn't have long to wait. One
evening just before dinner. one of the
younger woman announced to the as
sembled boarders that She had come.
1t was not necessary to mention any
names: every woman present knew who
vas meant, and as if by a preconcerted