The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1903-05-23
THE WOMAN WHO WAIVERS.

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time making up her mind than does
the average man, not so much be-
cause she has more to make up, but
the process 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 di-
rection from lack of material to work
on, but both types together are not so
d1scomforting as the weather vane
sort OF woman who shifts with every
wind of opinion that blows. She
possesses at least the virtue of consis-
tency, for she vacillates about every-
thing from getting married to carry
ing an umbrella in threatened wealth
er, and she does both finally because
some man and splash OF rain decide
the respective question for her.
There seems to be a special provi-
dence appointed for the woman who
wavers, for she generally gets off free,
while the consequences of her shifting
fall OH some one else as unerringly as
the specially aimed bullet hits the in-
nocent bystander.
She goes into a 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
under her pillow to dream on, and
name the bed posts for, and in this
way her choice is reduced to two
things, and 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
street car until the train leaves
promptly 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 Eer probable preferences
and by strenuously opposing them
forces decision, but usually he is
uncertain 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
figures vain command to return.
She starts across street, hesitates,
returns, then wanders serenely over
while the scared motorman flats a
wheel in slide under emergency
brakes. Her special providence is
there, for man in her place would
have also wandered serene1y over
Jordan by 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
6 o'clock is7 Whistle. if-a So '----'
She needs new suit, and the try
ing process is repeated, and she wants
the blue, but finds it little expen
sive, and likes the green, but fears 1t
will fade, and admires the red, but it
looks a 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 a new
lease on her house until a prohibitive
price is set and she spends her days
at the fat-renting agencies and in
looking around and her nights at
home in changing her mind. A tiled
bathroom in her latest choice is Offset
by a gas range in later one, and her
husband tosses up deciding penny
for her, and both fats are gone and
time is up, and he stores the furniture
to give her chance to look further,
and he loves her in spite of her vacil-
1ations-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 a little off but
does not realize the deficiency
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