New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-06
SHE TAINTED TO KNOW.
ind Incidentally Told Her Matri-
mORidl Experiences.

MOHtOL LT ptIhHCCS.
A woman clad from head to foot in what Mrs
Darlington called the garbage of woe" came
into Maine railroad train and seated herself
in front Of a tall, angular and salow feminine
native Of the soil with eager curiosity apparent
in her look and manner. Hardly had the woman
in black disposed of her hand luggage and
seated herself when the woman behind her
leaned forward touched the long crepe veil OF
her neighbor and asked in a voice Of the two
edged sword variety:
was If recent?''
'T-I-beS your pardon. madam" replied the
other woman, codly.
II asked was it recent-your affection,
uean?"
Yes"
Husband, take it,
Yes"
WAS It sudden. or did he Iinger?'
Excuse me. madam, but
There's advantages in havin' 'em so both
ways. I've had three. an one of 'em had drapsy
an other things. an fingered. an the others
went sudden-one got kicked by a mewi an
never said nothin' but to break it easy to me-
OF course. when they go sudden it saves Doctors
bills an If they've got to go in the end 1t saves
in a good many ways. Still. it's some comfort
to be able to do fer EN- long as you kim What
allied him?'
Typhoid"
"Yaas. Well. that's nasty disease 20 tackle.
One o. mine had it once an the doctor said it
was my good nussin' much as anything else that
carried him through Two doctors give him up.
an give him up myself to the extent Of sendiR
TO a sister o. mine an borrUwin' her mourniR
things. But he pulled through only to git
kicked out O. the world by pesky mewl Some
folks thought it strange that I should be w1llin
TO keep the mewI after il had cut up such
caper as that, but IT extry fine mewl. an
Il want wholly TO blame for he was tWlstln
| its tail in fun when II kicked him. an when
man goes TO twistin' nevis tail just to Jolly
| it he's runnin his own reesk an must take what
comes. He aIlus was O. the DARN kind. an
them kind gifts their oome-upance sooner or
later. don't you Think"
II the lady "thunk." she did not say so. and
the relict Of the man who had unwisely '.joLied-
/ the newt again gave free rein to her tongue
Il hope you got your thirds outright. had
to put UP fight to &c. mine when Job Skinner
/ died-he was my first an I was his second an
there was some children by his first. an they
tried 70 ba1aboozle me out o. my full thirds but
I got EN-. I'm female suIragrist TO the extent
o. thinzin that a woman should have half the
prop'ty outright an If there amt no children
she ort 70 git IT all You got Children
Two"
Was they under age? But kin see that you
amt old enough TO have children Of lawful age
unless you married mighty early. I'd guess you
to be anywhere from thirty-four 10 thirty-seven
years old. and Of course at that age an with
only two children an you real good loObin your
chances OF marryin' ag'in are
Madam
"Oh, Of course you think you won't now. I
| felt just so fer mebbe full month after lost
my first but time Is 'healin' ba'm.' as the poet
says an your find 1t same I I'D OF
course all marryin' is like twistin' a NEVIS
| taIl-its a reesk I've reesked It three times an
I know StiIl. IT'S as much OF a reesk fer him
as fer her an It's my opinion that the things
that make marriage sich a failure are about
| equally divided among men and women hebbs
\ ort to stand up more for my own sect. but
take Il by an large, an IT'S SIX o. one an haa