The Savannah morning news., 1900-07-29
WOMAN'S
WORLD.

Two men sat behind the vines of a Sc
Guided veranda to smoke their after-din-
ner cigars the other evening. As they
smoked, says the Buffalo Express, they
grew confidential and told each other some
secrets that were burdensome to their
comfort A woman sat within the house,
near a window that opened on the veran-
da.. 1t was a warm night and the win
dow was open. But the woman was sup
posed TO be reading and the men forgot
her existence. Snatches of the conversa-
lion foated in to her, and as the theme
was particularly interesting to femininity
the woman listened. 1t couldn't be wrong,
she argued, because one man was her hus-
band and the other was her dearest
interested her so much she told it to
friend and that person repeated it in
newspaper Office and so it was a secret no
longer.
The theme of the mems conversation is
not a new one in Buffalo this month. Doz-
ems of other men could take part in it if
they chose. The dearest friends husband
was trying to keep house while his wife
and the children were in the country for
q few weeks.
You know, Clifford, can make a cup
OF coffee and broil a steak as we'll as the
next person, but when it comes to washing
dishes 1 funk that's all. How the wo-
men keep the dishes in shape is more than
] know. Then it beats ali how untidy the
bedroom gets. I can't understand il, for
I never had any difficulty in keeping my
shoes, ties, collars and those kind of things
in their places before l suppose I forget
to put them away now that have the
breakfast to COOK
The woman listening, laughed, for she
knew all about certain bags and boxes
which her dearest friend had in which she
slowed away her husbands soiled linen
and handkerchiefs and kept his neckties
straight. She membered, too, her friend
telling her she had left everything in ap-
pie pie order for Herbert Hell get along
nicely" the little woman had said for
the fiat is in perfect order, there isn't
soiled article anywhere and I've left a
supply Of cooked things and have told
the milkman and baker to call every morn
ing in time for breakfast"
1T wasn't so bad until l made my first
breakfast" the voice on the Veranda went
on, that was not a success, for after
had made the coffee and put on the eggs
I sat down TO read the paper a minute.
What's a minute when you want to find
out about the situation in China and if the
Democrats have agreed on their platform
But il was long enough for the coffee to
boil all over the range and the eggs to get
as hard as bricks What coffee was left
tasted queer and I hadn't time to wash
the dishes. l am sure 1 had used only
one plate and a cup and saucer, but there
was {. ugh for half a dozen persons. At
ter l tided up the kitchen l though
would look over the evening paper, when
/ remembered l hadn't made my bed yet
l could have sworn burglars had been in
the room, for there were more shoes and
neckties and things lying around than
could wear in a week. / couldn't begin
to put them away! Marion has one of
those long, narrow boxes for my neckties
and I tried to straighten the things out
and put them away as l usually keep
them, but it took too long"
Again the woman on the other side of
the window laughed softly, for she re-
membered her friend telling how Herbert
always tried every pair of shoes he owned
before he could decide which ones to wear
and how his necktie box had to be tidied
every morning as regularly as the bed
was made
1T is two weeks now since Marion went