The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-01-28

the dining room receive suggestions by
faint odors from the kitchen that supper
was well under way, and that things
were going smoothly, than If / arrived
there in that particular frame OF mind
which describe. and found that during
my wifes absence at tho club the cook
had struck; the baby had turned over
pail Of water on It's precious, dear, darling
little .self. and that his slx-year- old
brother had mashed his hand in trying to
close a window. and the fire had not been
made; the market man had failed to come
with provisions, and all such not remote
possibilities under such conditions. told
her that I didn't believe that mans
wife should always cut the wood, curry
the mule black the stove or scrub
the foor-but did believe that she should
bo on hand during business hours to turn
her hand to whatever might come UP.
] argued that man who worked all day
might occasionally saunter down town
at night and spend an hour or two with
great profit to his brain by getting his
mind off OF business I told her that
women for the most part did not worry
over bills and accounts and schemes to
squeeze gold out of dry sponge: that
men were racking their brain In order to
make money; to lay aside something for
rainy day, or meet the demands of the
i,
ment-that In these fierce days he had to
scheme and work, and that because he
sometimes found 1t necessary, as he sup
posed, to Join n club or lodge that 1t
wasn't up to her to do the same thing.
told her that in the commercial life
men often found It a great help to meet
one at tha odss or the club bo
could throw a dollar his way to-morrow;
that often times great schemes of imam
xsil ~ Z I1n
a social glass. and that men who We're
VI. TO the minute must mix and mingle
with men or they would get left.
women like lot Of chaerih ris davis e' got Of
and played finch and talked small gossip
ment of the house hold In a. iinancial Way Way
that 1t was not an intellectual treat In any
way, TSay.that i was rather display Of what
that was all. And the woman looked at
me n With nh dags ss IN her eyes voted me
doubtless mentally rejoiced that such n
SUSPECT that all women who are members
are heroines at Pink Teas and ndos Yellow low
Teas will not give their free and fun en-
4 aay far to d Tha a Tr rs hs sd
DISCUSS this theme with mel will be
willing to divide us time. and defray half Of
husbands who care anything for their
homes will say that 1 am on the right
track.
The The announcement that President
into Africa and India. when his term
OF office expires. solely for the purpose nf
hunting lions and tigers, seems 10 me No
m nosa 5aeer One would naturally sup
est office within tho gift Of his peo eS
that he would want to go In some re-
treat and pose as a great man-giye ont
occasional chunks OF wisdom-write for
cne bnasazInes ana be the most distin-
1t seems that he wants to hunt tigers
and hunt them on their native heath Il
Wouldn't It jar the country If Teddy
We're s, 70 meet with disaster In his enter
takes this sort of business. that the Amer
lean nag Is not respected by an enraped
tiger. which has tasted blood. Were he
70 fall from his horse; We're he to be
old story. often repeated. but good here,
to the effect that - 4
1Lhere}was a young lady from Niger,
VINO went out to ride on tiger.
..Ihey came back from the ride
With the lady inside.
And a smile on the face OF the tiger
But every man to his taste-and n will
be every tiger to his taste II he COTS
ui'e Ut Leouy.
I note that There is some smallpox on
In Virginia Just now--nothng serious 9N am
g a15I to see, but the fact that It Is on re
sp na 4 !, one time and Il was true BILL
w eaa gv s'F e The po as
t 1kaa told me that one afternoon when
there vas so much smallpox In Danvile,
Son 500 after the Cuban War. It was about az
nos rs lt ever got n that city and he had
tbe aep Ms say bIg truck standing On
would take a rest for a few moments. it
seemed see that at that particular spot q 1T
broken out on, hts arms and neck with
in nM. and was thoroughly out of
taE He ,,,d had AM not been sitting the truck
buck negro came along and sat on tho
other tth lend end-iuss II q position to cut off
Ml.eh a1e was elltoyIilg wanted the
why he should eonlmand II, and the
longer The negro sat lthere hts love for
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