The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-12-30
EaH1N11nule Woman.
We Dread Her Coming As We Would
a Case Of Measles.

What a lingercr she is. She clilgs like
pitch TO any spot where she may land. AL
ways IN a hurry, always GREATNESS from
her last rush, she can outstand or outsit
any one OF us
lIcr greatest Joy IS in posing on the
front door steps with the wind waiStlinS
like mad and the thermometer down
20 nowhere.
The half-mnute woman is responsible
for more bronchitis, more sniffles in the
head. more discomfort Than a dozen other
women. met her the other evening before
the electric bell of q neishbor-
When The servant opened the door /
passed in, out i heard the lady who had
arrived with me say 10 the man:
ASK Mrs. Blank if i can see her for
just half a minute. l Will not come IN be-
cause am in a hurry"
Mrs. Blank came downstairs. smiling
like d sunbeam; as she passed the re-
ception-room she said:
''Will be with you, Dorothy, in just
half minute
Then the lady calling on the front door
steps Began her 4llt.e story 1t was some
thing about a club. There had been a
hialiut.r sac talked and talked and talked
Madame listened could see from where
I sat that she was on pins and needles
to get into the house.
1t was a miserable Jay to he outside
bundled up in j nice, warm wrap, and
10 have 10 stand directly III cold drausht
with only "a house gown for protection
was almost suicidal.
Alter stlivering for a good fifteen min
utes the lady who had only a half minute
10 stay left and my friend came into the
drawing-room looking as blue is a piece
of milestone.
She sank down in her chair, gave
little shiyer, and gazing at me Iathetically
remarked:
Aren't women queer They have such
way of saying they haven't but half
minute 10 stay, and then here sac
raised her hands with gesture of despair.
She was too.loyal TO say much. but had
only to 1ook at her 10 understand the dis
comfort she had undergone.
Indoors, out OF doors, wherever women
meet they erince the same strange desire
10 linger, backed by an equally wild de-
sire TO escape from one another.
/ wonder sometimes when l watch the
farewells strung out to an exhaustive
length, to the sood-byes that seem as
SC they would never cease, TO those last
words on the tip of all our tongues.-I
wonder If we do not hypnotic one anoIl-
Perhaps at isn't pitiful 10 watch the
alalf-minute woman get from a reception
room to the front door and out on the
pavement. She edges along, then bitches,
does a little more edging, and finally,
WHEN Ier uUSltsS Is ready 70 Sliih WILL
WEAKNESS, she takes her departure.
/ have a friend who whisks out of 4
room. She disappears like meteor after
a call. There are no last words Com
pared with most OF US she is rudely i'm
polite But, after all, is she not a positive
relief
/ have never gotten used to her methods
] suppose because she is such contrast
to the average woman. l think, taking all
things into consideration, she might be
Offered as a shining example.
At least she will never be called
porc. At least she viii never lay some
poor. delicate soul low with grip When
she says she is going she goes.
havc heard more than one of her
friends talk her over if she were a
shenonenon.-Dorothy Maddox, in Balti-
rupre Herald