The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-16
REMARKS ABOUT JIM's WIFE.
Her Ways and Her Treatment of
Neighborly Interest I'm a Telegram.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
"Jim's wife hasn't taken no perceivance
of me since my brother went away an l
amt sayin' it's because / have no men
folks around, neither. L leave spiteful re-
marks like that TO my neighbors, an they
do say mean things about that woman.
peacock about that yellow touzled hair of
hers. They say she'd put on her Sunday
best any day in the week If she thought
new folks wuz comm round They say
that she JUS winds Jim around that little
finger of hers an there's many in our
church what pities Jim. They say she's
dreadful extravagant, buyin' new ribbons
an things for every new dress instead OF
fixin' things over. That's what the neigh
borS say. / don't say so myself: never
mind what / may think way down in my
heart. | don't believe in bearin' no false
witness against my neighbors and Jim s
wife she lives right next door.
81 will say that she's curious. Ny
brother hadn't no morn reached the house
when Jim's wife came over to return a
cup of sugar which she said she borrowed
last summer. Perhaps she did borrow il
an perhaps she didn't I didn't take no
notice ez TO her OWN me any sugar. Now
faint natcheral for any woman to go
round the neighborhood, sociable like to
return borrowed things any more dressed
up than usual. But Jim's wife amt that
kind when there's men around. When she
came into my house with that cup of sugar
she wuz dressed just ez elaborate ez If
she wuz goin TO the opery in the city. She
had on everything she owned except her
piano scarf which her cousin in Boston
outside church sociable or show. She
mad on her two rings an her hair watch
chaia an her imitation TORTOISE shell comb
when she got by sendin' on six new sub
scriptions for that ma gazine that tells how
10 make nome beautiful out of odds an
ends an things
well. sir, do you suppose Jim's wife mt
on all her jewelry for me? She seen my
brother come TO the house. an she came
over TO make an effect on him / told him
JUS what all the neighbors said about her,
after she wuz gone, bein' careful not TO
criticise her myself, for I didn't want To
prejudice him against her. Yes. I'm sorry
to say he kinder took TO Jim's wife He
said her hair was fashionable. If any
one could like such faded-out yellow STUFF
well. sir, while he was with me Jim's
wife came over most every day She come
to ask me about my rheumatic, an / amt
had a tinge in ten years. She come to ask
me about the next missionary meeting an.
she on the committee herself! / got that
sick of Jim's wife that | could have
strdngled her il il wouldn't have been
murder I don't know what Jim's about
wearin' her best clothes every day but
them new folks are so blind. Jirns wife's
always at her window an she don't miss
much that's goin on in this neighborhood
1T always beat me why folks should he
more interested in other peoples doin's
than in their own. When made this OBJ
seryation 10 my brother he just laughed
an said that life was game of poker
where every fellow held his own hand close
an tried TO see or guess what the other
fellows had. / amt now takin' no perceiv-
ance OF poker playin', belongin' to the
Methodist Church all my life, but my
brother once led a sinful life of card
piayin an dancin'. an he knows.
why, I've been settin' in my window
when one of the neighbors would come
Gown the street I'd look over and there
In her window would set Jim's wife Just
ez curious ez she could be- watchin' the
neighbor pass. When 1 go 10 my side win
dow TO see which corner they'd turn at
| amt exaggeratin' a bit when | say that
Jims wife would move from window to
window SOS she could watch them longer
She's secretive, too. saw Josh Hop
kins's boy. what work0 In the station learn