Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1904-03-08
A PREJUDICED VIEW
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see plainly that the farmers wife was
hot person to be lived with ON
Imiablc terms After she had gone
70 bed the farmer and l sat together
chatting about the dull winters in the
country and the want of means of
amusement, especially for the older
people asked him IL he liked 10
read.
"Naal. stranger" he said, Il reckon
/ do like 10 read If l kin git the books.
For q long time | had nuthin' but
Shakespeare and the Bible. But last
winter ! -ot historical book about
them kIngs onI queens Of England
wus Interested in one Of 'em. a king
called Henry VIII That king was the
only man / ever read or heered about
that got ahead Of six wimmen. all his
wives, and didn't hev 10 Kin moren
two Of 'rn neither"
lie was "A monster" protested.
"N0al now, stranger, / haint So
sartin about that / don't know that
he was quite excusable in the matter of
his first wife, the Spanish woman, but,
yc sec a man to git ahead of six vim
min has got to be mighty sharp. II |
remember right, Henry he'd married his
brothers wilder, which is contrary to
Scripture and after livin' with her
twenty years his conscience troubled
him. 1t may be tibet he hadn't orter
married her in the first place, but IL
makes good deal of difference wheth-
or woman's young and amlable or
old and spiteful. No, / think, under
the circumstances. Henry was excusa-
bic for gittiu' tender conscience ut
the right time. Most peoples CON
sciences pricks EN- at the wrong time.
Henry's come in remarkable handy"
"You surely don't approve OF his be-
healing Anne BoIeyn, his second wife,"
"Waal, HON. / haln't 50 sartin about
that neither. IIenry's conscience was
very tender one and, as l said afore,
always pricked him at convenient
time. When his first wife died. he
wanted 10 show her every mark Of re
spec and ordered his court to put on
black, Anne Boieyn showed what kind
Of a woman she was when she ordered
her wimmcn to wear yaller. That made
Henry mad. 1t was convenient time
TO be mad. He was gittin' ready for
his next wife. | reckon eff he hadn't
been king and wise as a sarpint be-
sides he'd never "a done what he did
with the hull six on en-
Ills third wife" ! remarked, Jane
Seymour, was, | believe, the only one
of the six who died a natural death
rt.hfI Ia oil IN,
of Cloves, he divorced"
1.-THE Cleves woman was the only
sensible one o the lot the only one
that come any ways near gittin' even
with the king. When he said, You git"
she was very much pleased to go. This
wounded the king sorely. A man don't
like to be taken at his word by wom-
an, no matter how onruly she Is"
"What do you think of the case of
Katherine HowardY
'rLemme see. What did she do?
There's so many Of 'em forgit."
''As mere child she had been led
into several indiscretlons, including a
sort OF marriage with a low bred fell
low who afterward turned pirate. AS
soon as she married the king all those
who had led her astray'-
II remember now. They all turned
office seekers, and the queen had to
give 'em situations or they'd blow on
her. WAL, now, ! don't see how Hen
ry could "a done any different. He
wouldn't believe nothln' ag'in her till
the hull thing was out. Katherine was
one O. them middle-o -the-road vim
min. she might "a lived Of she'd only
given in. She wouldn't own up to her
first marriage The king couldn't git
'nulment of his marriage on any 9th.
er ground, so he had to chop her head
off. She done that Henry didn't You
see, stranger, there's popularity
about wimmin that it requires Jist
such a man as Henry 10 handle. They
/ never give in. katherine preferred to
lose her head, and in dom so she only
showed q woman's natur'.
There's another point in Henry's IA
yor. He had two gals TO leave the
crown 10 and only one boy, an he Il
wcakling. Henry had material insight
| into winners unftness to run things.
/ and, having a tender conscience, Il
grieved him to think o leayin' his people
to suffer under 'em. And IL turned out he
was right His first darter was Bloody
/ Mary whose name speaks for her. Then
comes Elizabeth, who cut Off the heads
4 OF the men she loved. and loved her
cousin. Mary, queen . Scots, 50 well
/ that she clt her head OF too
mo, stranger; In summin' up the
married lie . Henry VII. consiCi ar
/ that he was a remarkable man and a
! very conscientious one He done all he
/ could 10 keep England from bein' pes
/ tered with wImmen rulers, and for that
4 alone he orter be honored by his erate-
( ful countrymen. Six Of EN-. Jist think
/ Of it. stranger. Six Of 'em What
/ would you and l do with such a lot. re-
/ str1cted by law as we air? Henry VIII.
T was q great and good man"
4 The farmers arguments set me to
4 thinking. OF late years we have had
/ lives of Aaron Burr. setting forth his
lE-Ir - II