Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-05-08
FIGHTING BoB,s" WIFE.

FIGHTING BOB'S" WIFE.
Every Saturday night when at sea
for nearly forty years Admiral Rob-
ley d. Evans has, with his fellow
officers, drunk toast to "our wives
and sweethearts." and In drinking it
his thoughts have gone over the wat
er to a modest home In a now unfash-
ionable quarter of Washington,
where dwells the admiral when
ashore, and where dwells at all times
the lovely white-haired woman. his
wife,
Mrs. Evans, who prior to her mar
rage was Charlotte Taylor, was
Fighting Bob's youthful sweetheart
at the time when with a landing
party he stormed Fort Terry, there
to receive four gunshot wounds and
to lie unattended on the sand. for
hours until a surgeon came. who
wanted to cut on his leg. 1t is de-
clared that the powerful language on
the part of the young ensign saved
his leg from amputation.
Mrs. Evans has watched her hus-
bands sea career nearly half a CEN
fury, but It is doubtful II she ever
watched any part of 1t with more so
licitude than she will watch the
cruise of the great feet OF battle
ships from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc.
It Is big undertaking that Ad-
miral Evans has ahead of him. His
wife wishes him to round out his ca
reer with the same kind of credit
that BIAS always chung to him. II is
under1tood that she will go to San
Francisco to welcome him when the
fleet puts into the Golden Gate. 1t
Ii probable, she hopes, that before
her husband meets her on the Pa.
cific Coast he will have dropped the
title of Rear Admiral for that of Vice
Admiral.
Admiral and Mrs. Evans have come
ito their Indiana avenue home In
Washington because of its associa-
tons with their early married life.
Many of the older families OF Wash
ington lived near the Evans home
once upon q time. but one by one they
have taken their departure to more
fashionable districts. Once anchor
ed the Admiral and HIS wife have
been content to stay at their moor
ings. A naval oficer does not have
to live In fashionable neignborhoods
to keep up his social prestige.-Chi-
cago Post
FROM "A MANS STANDPOINT.
A man can keep another persons
secret better than his own: a wom-
an, on the contrary, keeps her secret,
though she tells all others.
Il like women" said a clearhead-
ed man of the world; ''they are so
finished" They finish society. man
ners, language. Form and ceremony
are their realm. They embellish
tribes.
1t is misfortune for a woman
never to be loved. but 1t Is humilia-
ton to be loved no more.
Women like brave men exceeding
~. but audacious men still more.
There are "a hours in a day and
not a moment in the "a In which a
woman may not change her mind.
A man is in general better pleased
when he has good dinner than
when his wife talks Greek.
Women give in entirely to their af-
fecions, set their whole fortunes on
the die, lose themselves eagerly in
the glory Of their husbands and
children.
Women divine that they are loved
long before II Is told them.
There will always remain something
to be said of woman as long as
there is one on the earth
Woman's happiness is In obeying.
She objects to men who abdicate too
much.
Men are generally kind when wom-
en- look their best.
Women are sure to be iucouaiak.