Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1905-04-06
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Washington Star: tIe leaned as;tins,
the iron side lattice ON the recr plat /
form OF an up-bound Fourteenth en- act
car n,uMch;.l. Ga Al :ulLy. rone-oat
cigar The rcic rim of his soft at
was pulled oNer A:s eyes. mhicn ars
slightly blooaaaot.
He looted like one Who had nervs...
himself against some sort Of II wall,
about to be handed him 10y the mailt.!
INST OF fate.
\ CHEEKY friend of the gloomy look
ing mans swung aboard the rear plat
form. Tho two exchanged greetings,
and then nc of the Slightly bloodsl o
eyes inquired:
Die ever stack up against one =;
these women with the skiddo hab:..
pal?"
i've seen Eliza doing the icy getawa,
in Uncle Tom if that's what yru
mean." said the other, lightly
the man with the pulpy. goneou:
smoke. Kind l mean is the married
woman with the hike habit. Kind that's
got the packing up and skinning out
bug. Isn't such Il common OF garde,
variety, at that, but it exists, buddy
and you don't want to think that don't
know it.
Sure thing I know it. Every time
the husband and provider of woman
with the skiddoo hubit nudges home
with his hat on Il little crooked she
begins TO wrap up The 9S-cent mission
clock in a tidy and then she swipes
the knicN-Nnacks off the mantel piece
and losses them into her trunk.
She 10 sooner gets one of these
eight-feet Away old -sleuth smells at
his breath than she begins to assemble
her old slippers and rubbcrs out of the
corner of the closet and starts TO dump
them into her trunk trays.
Yep, she tells the tiend In human
form who comes home with his hat
on slightly crooked that she's going
to pull right out and leave him to the
misery he so richly deserves; and that's
all there is about it, no use talking,
he could talk until doosmday and it nd
do no good and then She begins to
grab the manicure things off the chif-
fonier and to fold EN- up i'm II bureau
scarf, preparatory to dumping the gear
into that trunk that she has Nanked
out into the middle of the bed room
floor.
IF her husbands in the habit of sit
ting around the house tMenty-nine
nights in Il month. smoking Il bum pipe
TIN he's black under the eyes. and go
7 ~
thirtieth night he slips down TO take
in u variety show and stops after the
show to play IL game of billiards and
hurl in ball or two. just TO put a large
tang to the GREATNESS of living and TO
4 knock some of the m0motony out of eX-
lstence--why, when he gets home n few
minutes after /, there she is, sailing
around the room like a tigress, sep
arating her junk from his, aud stow
ing her fancy waists in II protected
out of heway corner of her trunk.
"Where's she going?
THAT'S none of Your business, she
tells you. sut she's gong the very first
thing in the molnillg.
Shes going To give your happy home
a twist that'll make YOU sit up and rub
Your eyes.
"Mhy?
"Because you smashed the routine
and failed To connect with the front
door on schedule time.
IF you go OFF ON little business trip
and, on the way back i'm the smoking
compartment, sample u few OF tlc
anphora passed your way. SO that whei
you get nome in the cab you are just
a teenchy bit conversational and en-
thusiastc. why. what comes off.
We'll She makes two strides of il
for her hat boxes and starts in II
pack.
''l.ecausc you're hopeless Irish loaf
er and u tank, and you're never going
4 To he amy different and So what's tn,
use and then She 81 ms everything on
of her small steamer trunk SOS 10 b.
able to rcpacll all of that dunnage il
her big trunk.
she just machully loves to pack III
married woman with the skiddoo habit
GOTTEN. on rainy afternoons. Vel
everything's going smooth and al right
she's got the packing bug so bad iha
she'll drag everything out of her triinl
and put II back again. heaNins dcel
hasn't done something On won't do amy
ching thatll offer her - tocrablc OK
cuse to make quick hike "f it.