The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-07-03
THE WOMAN WHO WAIVERS.

The average woman spends more
time making up her mind than does
the everage man, not 80 much because
she has more to make up, but the pro-
cess requires more time from having
to be done over again so often.
The world is thronged with strong
minded women who can make up their
minds in an instant and they are made
up for keeps; and there are hosts of
weak-minded men who fail in that d.
rection from lack of material to work
on, hut both types together are not so
discomforting as the weather vane
sort of woman who shifts with every
wind of opinion that blows. She pos
sesses at least the virtue of consisten.
cy, for she vaeillates about everything
from getting married to carrying an
umbrella in threatened weather, and
she does both finally because some
man and splash of rain decide the
respective question for her.
There seems to he a special provi-
dence appointed for the woman who
wavers, for she generally gets off free,
while the consequences of her shifting
fall on some one else as unerringly as
the specially aimed bullet hits the in
nocent bystander.
She goes into store and a tired
clerk pulls down half the stock for her
satisfaction, and dozen samples are
cut for her to take home and put un-
der her pillow to dream on, and name
the bed posts for, and in this way her
choice is reduced to two things, and a
final decision is forced by one of these
being all sold out.
She plans to go to Kirkwood, but
hesitates whether to take the train or
screet car until the train leaves prompt
ly without her and her car is laid out
on switch and her friends wait lunch
and finally eat without her.
Her husband craftily reconnoiters
and discovers her probable preferences
and by strenuously opposing them
forces decision, but usually he is un-
certain which way she is going to jump
until she lands, which is likely to be
on him.
She equips her children with rub
bers and umbrella and hauls them in
off the porch to remove the things, and
then bawls after their vanishing fig
ures a vain command to return.
She starts across street, hesitates,
returns, then wanders serenely over
while the scared motorman fats a
wheel in a slide under emergency
brakes. Her special providene is
there, for man in her place would
have also wandered serenely over Jor-
dan by the way of the morgue.
The uncertain woman needs new
hat and she asks the opinion of all her
friends as to its color, and tries on
twenty-five confections, and despite
the reflections of the milliner's mirror
her choice is fixed on the least
becoming by the blowing of the 6
o'clock whistle.
She needs new suit. and the try
ing process is repeated, and she wants
the blue, but finds it little expensive,
and likes the green, but fears it will
fade, and admires the red, but it looks
little warm for summer, and is
pleased with the tan, but it is easily
soiled, and her husband, after waiting
in vain for her to join him at the cafe,
scents the familiar difficulty and hap
pens in and orders the blue sent home
by special delivery.
She hesitates about signing new
lease on her house until a prohibitive
price is set and she spends her days
at the flat-renting agencies and in look
ing around and her nights at home in
changing her mind. A tiled bathroom
in her latest choice is Offset by gas
range in the later one, and her hus-
band tosses deciding penny for her,
and both flats are gone and time is up,
and he stores the furniture to give her
a chance to look further, and he loves
her in spite of her vacillations-the
sweet man!
Her servants adore her, although
she issues conflicting orders, and her
children worship her, although they
do not always respect her, and her
friends make sacrifices for her and are
tenderly attached to her, although
their regard is tinged with pity as for
one who is mentally little off but
does not realize the deficiency.
A little chap 4 years of age met
with the misfortune to have his hat
blow into the river. When he reach