Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-11-04
THE REFLECTIONS OF
THE WIDOW MAG00GIN.

divide honors with mr.. Dooley" of
Chicago. The Widow Magoogin" has
pronounced views OF men and things,
and these she airs In the fashion OF
Mr.. Dooley-" In private life" the
Widow Magoogin' is John j. Jennings,
a well known New York newspaper
man. The Widow" first appeared in
public in st. Louis in 1882 as a cousin
of the then late lamented Mike Magoo-
gin, policeman, whose conversations
with the vender OF peanuts, faithfully
reported by Mr. Jennings, had convuls-
ed the townspeople. Mike had the bad
taste to die in the height of his fame
Then Mr.. Jennings created the Widow
Magoogin," and her back yard fence
conversations in Kerry Patch with
Mrs. McGlaggerty sprang into immedi-
ate favor
When Mr.. Jennings moved into the
wider field of New York he brought the
Widow" with him. and her converse
tions were reported each week for the
Sunday Mercury until 1894.
In the book just issued by the Dill
linghams Mr.. Jennings has brought the
Widow up to date. giving the best Of
her earliest impressions, including her
troubles with Dutch Hinnery, the hus-
band of her daughter. Toozy the es-
capades Of her son, Tammy the Toof.
These make book of 1854 pages.
AS sample Of the Widows" style,
take this account of an incident that
caused the postponement OF Toozy's
| wedding:
"Oh, Mrs. McGlaggerty! Mrs. Nc
Glaggerty. Mrs. lucGlaggerty!" shouted
the Widow Magoogin at the top of her
voice last Tuesday night about supper
time. Come hoe, afirah, till Oh spake
| to ye'
| What is it, Mrs. Magoogin?" the
| neighbor asked, coming to her door,
"Ci was jist gittin' Jurrys supper ready
SOS to be able to be off to the church
| to see tn weddin,''
| "Oh, thin, McG1aggerty, yell see no
weddin' this blissid noight," said the
! Widow, for it's murdher we're jisht
afther havin' insoide in the kitchen in
sthud ave marryin' an Dim thinkin'
| it's kilt intoirely me poor Toozy is. an
| her throwsoo is that split that the
| devil himself let alon little Ditch Hin
| Lery, did not care to be seen wud her
at the althar. Who done it? Who diz
We thinks done it, but that little sprig
av mischief, my by Tammy. Oh, its
well We all named him phwin yes called
him the toof, fur it's toof he is, an a
toof he'll be all the days av his loife,
Mrs. McGlaggerty, and he'll be a lucky
toof, too, this terrible night aft he's
nothing for the KILN av his sister.
Did he kill her? No, but he moight as
well done it as do fwhat he did. He's
given her cut on the forrud that
Dlolnd man kud see at half moie's
distance, an fwha.'s worse than all
else, he's left her throwsoo, or weddin'
trousers Oh calls EN-, that worthless an
unfit for wearin' that she's gone to bed
sick, an Dim to sind Hinnery an the
hackman home an to tell iyiribody
that the weddin's postponed antil next
Windsa, fwhin, wud the grace av God
we hope TO have uvirything roight
az IN
EIcH did it happen? Lish'en an
Owl teel We in moighty few wurruds.
Tammy, We know, was to be wan av
the bridesmaids no; fwhat'm OF
talkin about at all, a. all? Dim that
dazed an bowildhered that Oh don's
know fwhether Oi'm sthandin' on me
he'd or me heels. Mrs. McGlaggerty.
Well. amy way, Tamny was to sthand
up wud Hinnery. an Tammy whit 20
tailor an hoired him a shoot av
clothes, an Oh washed him a shirt
an bought him a sthandin collar. loike
the joods wears, an got him a fwhoite
ricktoie
"Cvryth:n' seemed to be andhershtud
bechuxt thin until tonight; fwhin 10 an
behold ye Toozy, who was dhressin' her
sell in the kitchen. gev Tamnfy the coat
an vesht av the shoot she borried TO put
an him. He had an the shirt an pants an
collar, an'-to tell We the truth, Mrs Me-
Glaggerty-he was Iukin' as purity as a
chromeo. Very well, phwat diz he do but
pat an the besht, an'-savln' yer presence
Mrs. Acknowledgement It wan o. thin
dollyket veshts cut away down to yere,
dye moind Tammy didn't want TO wear
ii, an said he'd have TO tie the shirt Down |
TO kape 1t from shippin over the top av |
the vesht. but Oh pacihed him an he kept !
it an. Thin he throid an the coat Nee
liza murther. but thin there was fun 1t |
was a swally-tail-a raie out an out |!
jood's coat. DO We want to make a mon |.
key out as meT seq Tammy. It'll make a |
man av We, says Toozy who had on her !
fwolte dhress an kas gettin ready as |
fasht as she kud. OF won't wear IT. seq !
he. You mustn't seq she. OF won't seq |
he. an wud that he peeled il aff an pelt- |
ed it over In the corner Toozy got mad, |
an pickin' up the pitaty FOUNDER. STINT II |
singin agin' the top av Tammy's nose.
low, Wow, But We shud have seen
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