The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1902-07-11

knitting. looked out at the yellow SUM-
shine slanting across the green grass.
Women amt got no sense" she re-
peated rehectively. 'and Ii seems to
me they amt never going to learn none.
Rather than live by themselves-and
what's more independent than living
by yourself. IL IL is kinder lonesome
sometimes? Yes. 1t is kinder lonesome
sometimes. but it's long sight better
than taking such awful chances as
some OF 'em take. A woman won't ex-
actly put her head I'm the fire and burn
II off. but she'll marry man she hasn't
known more'n three weeks or a month.
She'll do that. And what can you know
of man in that short time? How do
you know but what he's burglar or a
cutthroat or bigamist or thief? You
can't. My land. but women is foolsp'
The needles flashed again.
"Iost men are full of faults. girl"
she recommended by and by. las dog
| Is of fieas. but want to tell you. Eliza
beth, that 1t amt always the glaring
| faults that makes woman most mis-
erable: it's the little meannesses. It's
Jane Lawson I've got in mind now.
I'd rather be dead and buried than
married to that husband OF hers.
"He amt no burglar. he amt no com
mon thief. and maybe he amt no big
amist, but they're generally pretty cute
| about keeping that dark; but he's stin-
| gy and mean. According TO my way
| Of thinking there amt nothing warps
| a woman's life so much as meanness
| I'm a man. because a woman's such q
queer sort Of creature she gets to be q
looking glass, rejecting the man. Jane
living with him. has got SO she's saved
and scrimped till she. don't know moth
ing but saving and scrimping. For In
| stance, one morning last week l went
| to see her, and there she was at the
back door bargaining with the vegeta
BILE man for corn nubbins instead ol
full ears of corn. They comes cheaper.
says she. turning TO me. and she wa'n't
ashamed either. That husband of her.
had changed her nature so she couldn'r
stoop to nothing too small to please
him.
Il wish you could have seen hel
L WutI sue WIS iou hCNSi bS
lieye she could have shriveled so. ID
hate to be in that woman's shoes. II
rather live by my lone self all the res
of my natural life" And she knitted
THAT man." she resumed after {
time. would hang on 10 the dollars til
the eagles flew of He'd give plug
ged nickel 10 a blind beggar if he gave
any. which amt likely. Before IL
marry man Ike that I'D be an ole
maid for the rest OF my life. If 1t L
lonesome, and IL is lonesome"
The needles clicked hard.
IF you could only catch the least bi
of an idea OF a mans nature from tn
looks OF him." she complained, Il
wouldn't be SO terribly risky. But yol
can't Deceivingi They are deceivinl
as-yearling colts. Why, a man vii
tell you he loves you better than any
body else in the world. then go an,
tell the same thing TO some other VIC
man I'm less than half an hour. Hell
make love to some other woman. witt
u wife at home ana a baby in the era
die. He'll come home staggering. hunt
ing for the keyhole with both hands
and say he's just come from praye
meeting. He'll go the Lord know
where and stay till the Lord know
when. then come back and tell You he