The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-31
WELL INFANT
INTEREST IN A
NEIGHBoR

"A woman is a fool who lives with
husband who drinks"
The speaker turned to her brother,
who was so absorbed in reading his
paper in the fading light that he had
paid no attention. Repeating, she
said:
Warren Miles, ! say woman Is
fool who lives, with husband who
drinks"
Glancing over his spectacles and
lowering the top of his paper to about
the height of bronze Grand Army
button in his lapel, he replied:
"That sounds kind of true. but
how do you happen to speak of II
now?"
you just look across the street
and you will see"
Looking through the window at
which he was sitting, and over TO
the rear of the Boston State House,
he saw staggering. limp little man
supported and carried forward by
golden-haired, plump-lgured woman.
Both sister and brother watched
the couple disappear. The sister be-
came so much interested In looking
after them that she dropped the pa
per she had been reading Picking II
up was somewhat difficult matter,
as II involved leaning forward with
bulgy figure whose joints time had
stiffened. Regaining her paper and
unsnarling her eyeglass cord from
the front of her dress she said:
That's the way | have seen them
go home night after night This
spring, except sometimes he has a
Negro help him"
kind of tough on his wife. isn't
il Sabra?"
81 don't know as she gets any SYM
pathy from me. If she knew her duty
10 her sex she would leave him TO-
morrow, and / just wish | could get
chance 70 tell her So"
Now, Sabra, wouldn't feel so
ST. ong about It II was you. You
know they aln't doing anything to
rs"
That's the way you men let things
10 and don't care whether the world
grows Detter or mott"
~'Ol well, Sabra, | guess anyway
J g doesn't abuse his family even II
! does drink some. For one thing.
| hs little girl looks to me as though
~ was dressed mighty pretty and
u ald as TO his wife-well,
less she dresses all right, but any
hoW SECS 30 sweet that when she
! 20 rs along The street people stop
tslg;ng ic each other and just look
t'lii She has gone"
3 "Thtt's about as | thought. If any
't,oa 0l is as pretty as all that you
I iu'shi cyncCt she would be any kind
Cf . fool. You might know she hasn't
eny sense by the way she dresses
| That tw,lye-year-old girl in short
coth,s Gn1 let's her wear curls down
her Lack. If that woman knew what
was decent she would have long
SKIRTS on tlat girl and braid her hair
For ny part ! don't believe that
! loor fool OF a woman gets any of his
money, for | thlnl; she works to help
sapport the family. She goes by
here pretty regular and | think she's
going to her job"
well, that's kind of getting into
imagination, isn't it?"
on you men make me disgusted
You want everything worked out by
4 Irn 4 nd IN
ments and some press copies to lool
over before you can make up youl
mind about anything, while wo
man will get at the truth right away
with just her feminine intuition
We'll, there's one thing | know
it's none of our business what they
do so long as they don't ask anything
of us"
II don't take your view at all
can convert one of my sex to Sc,
what Is her duty |. am going to-"
IL don't myself take much stool
now in this business OF converting
although | didn't know any bette
forty years ago, for | fought al
through the Civil War 10 make othe
people think as | did. That gave nj
} my I'll of converting, and II there !
any more to be done somebody els
will have TO do 1t besides me-"
After this he got his overcoat an
prepared to start for the front steps
his sister in the meantime endin
the talk with:
Just as soon as / can learn wher
they live l am going to call on tina
woman and tell her plainly that It
her duty to her sex to leave tha
! good drunkard"
Never did Miss Miles retreat whe
: impelled by duty. II was therefor
only natural that at about 4 o'cloc
the next afternoon she was seate
in the front room on the ground foo
of a house on Hemlock street an
near the top OF Beacon Hill, in tn
home of the family she would bene
iit The sunshine poured in at til
side of the bay window and gleame
on her black-rimmed eyeglasses an
! fully lighted her figure from her toe
ing-in feet to her enduring smile.
While waiting for her hostess sh
mentally went over her plan of can