The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-20
MRS. SCHMITZER'S VIEWS.

Some do be tellin' me there's bad looch
in this number t'irteen," remarked Mrs
in their oEices musth be claned up, an
I'm not wan as is aisy to t'row over wild
out shedain' tear than nanny folks cud
stand at all, at all. The warst was whin
I put me man away on the Island; since
I come to this fure-. They've give him
two years fur assault an electricity. He
Gid batter me sure, but he was wrong
in the head wild liquor. He got 1t on his
brain that he was goin' to die. an that
I'd be marryin' some wan ilse SO he UP
wild knife and whit fur me. The neigh
bors rung up the cops. and I cudn't
hindther them takin' him away. He's
dreadful homesick over there but he does
mt hold no grusge agin me; he's that
forgivin', poor fella.
Yer sskin' how I come to be a Schmit-
ger. Ne borrun name was Rafferty,, but
Jacob, my husband, was German wild a
dash Of Scotch. Nations gets mixed in
this country.
But comm back TO the number t'rteen.
Mebbe there's nothin' wrong wild it afther
all. Some iv my gintlemin says they've
had the time iv their lives UP here
There's Mr.. Brown in the fire insurance;
narely all the big fires was insured wid
other companies; an Mi Philips in the
Life hasn't had no deaths to speak of
It's thrue me Janey losth her place; but
it happened fortnit. fur little Tim got run
over be an autymobile an # Janey had
been wurkin' theirs been no wan at home
TO take care iv Tim. The others all goes
to school. I've got to lave the house an
come to scrub at the Offices at foor iviry
mornin.' Thin I'm home tindin' Tim.
an SEEM to the house, an launderin
towels fur the Offices, betwane tin o'clock
an foor, an from foor Oh to eight iv an
evenin I'm here at the Office agin, sweep
in. an dustin. an moppin'.. Wild all that.
it's the mosth I can do to kape the young
vans covered an fed.
The time Jacob TUX to dhrinkin' harder
was whin he was out iv wark whites the
Union was on a sthrike He wud jine tn
Union: he's that sociable an accommodate
in It's thankful am there's no Scrub
womans Union. fur cudnt be dissbiigin'
an stay unjined. an what wud my gintls-
min do wild no wan to clane them up?''
\ stamp-collecting once boy on our
floor brought trouble to Mrs. schmitzer.
One morning he handed me letter and
informed me that Mrs. schniszer had
given it to him with package Of empty
envelopes.
Don't be mad with her" he begged
she brings me the old envelopes from
the waste-paper basket. and somehow she
got that one mixed In
7 nlver meant it" pladed Mrs. Schmitz-
er. when I preached thu subject iaier
I d claned I'd all Il yer room alriddy. an
collected the trowes-away stuff from the
waste basket FUR Johnnie. whin the posth-
man dunlped a lot ~ fresh letters or The
table. an " coorse I svep' W that brand
new wan wid the OLD lot II was a very
thin wan. an didn't look ~ much &C
count. anthats al there is 70 f.
tried 20 impress on her the serious con
sequences OF ths loss Of a document. and
she walked away with bowed heae- Fer
many mornings ths-ezffer shs dodse1 be-
hind aci-hHoring doors II I arrived before
ahe has fn shed her ~7ors
When she thought tirle had efaeed The
unplesssutness of the incident she ven
tu-sd into ny room FOR chst
f-eskir' g ls;ther-r III, began. IT al
WIS - Re looean -c--h rsrr,cseT there
days trough ihs Ess.e. fesrtn wan 81
Other ~ ny sintismin. absent Essnssi ize.
might : row a-ay . good va i MS axe
an sezIrntn' that way. We ceE1s asrost
sor1s fra reas.n M Jackson. now. s. .
beautiful composer. Ees sein 70 marry
tne sinner psr51srs dauEht.-: its laT
+eli rsrnern5 -r he writes his se't1tTs
rhsr g. n oEce. al tears 1hi-n -. an
rows him away. I'll he's got var s7h<s
u 2 -atirfy hi-sei;- ] pee ne BIS to
geiSs- with zucTa-e al -h.-s y P'sin
Va-er stuck On TIC hack Al take Hin
home - 5an-y fur practice en- h7a
Z lave school 81 f-o--es1- a. g i1t'i n
fsc'rv. - zhs'~ rassics-fa hers.lf events >
NJ -JacSxcn CO be csI.sn' bis yong ia1T
the rurtIest Names It's a smart head a.
has Z make NJ - many cicrsnt MARS
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