Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1903-08-17
A HOME STAYING WOMAN.
The Ideal Life of a Kansas House
wife Who Recently went Up
Higher"

A woman who has just died in Abil
lene, Kas.. was fulfillment, such as is
seldom found in these degenerate mod
ern days. of the masculine idea of what
a woman should be, as indicated by the
man. made litera ture on the subject
She was emphatically a "homebody,
and if there is anything the average
man desires more than another in the
partner Of his joys. TO hear him talk. it
is that she shall be a homebody. He
wants her to be at home always when
he is there, and feels injured when she
is not. Secretly. also, he cherishes the
belef-the proof of it is found between
the lines of what he writes and as a.
undercurrent of what he breaches
that she can spend all the rest of her
time profitably IN putting the home in
readiness for him during such hours
as he may occupy 1t. The Abilene W."
man lived up to this ideal. In the TWEEN
tyfive years previous to her death she
had never visited the business part of
Abilene; she never saw the railroad
stations, the court house or any of the
improvements not visible from her
doorway. This means, of course, that
she never shOpped, that she never Went
on excursions out of town, that She
never went to such downtown" amuse-
ment as Abilene affords; that she never
went to see the Masons. or Odd Fellows
or Red Men. when they paraded in all
the glory of their regalia; that she new
er went down to see Bryan or Carrie
Nation when they visited the place, and
that even the circus parade had no at
fractions for her. She was not an in
valid or cripple or u crank: she was
simply homebody.
Abilene is not large city, 1000 or
1000 comprising its population, and it
would not have required great degree
of enterprise to compass its entire
boundaries at frequent intervals; indeed
though it is conceivable that the town
does not offer much in the way of ex-
element or entertainment the ordinary
woman possessed of nerves and a meas
ure of friVolity might have been ex-
pected to feel that she had once in a
while to get out of the house or die -
But the woman who has just departed
this life had no such desires: she was
content to remain for twenty-five years
on her own premises. What she thought
about is not known: whether she talked
over the back fences with her neigh
bors and so kept in touch with her lit
tie world is not mentioned in her obit-
uary; nor is it related whether or not
the husband of this ideal woman real
lied what q treasure he possessed. He
and her friends must have natural
wonder as TO how her spirit can content
itself in its present wider boundaries
There is a possibility, indeed, that.
once set free. once convinced of the
fact that there is something worth
while in creation outside of an Abilene
yard gate, the shade of this woman is
disporting itself gayly and with much
| joyous establishment over the spirit
world. wherever that may be, and
GREETING the time lost from sightseeing
during the twenty-five Abilene years.
However this is the fact remains that
she was a remarkable "homebody," and
that all men whose ideal she met
should contribute towards a. monument
&c her memory .-Indianapolis Journal.