Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-08
THE LITTLE WOMAN

The, girl who had been relating the
ale of woe ended with a sigh of COM
miseration tits too bad" she said.
II feel sorry for Marshes such a
little thing!''
There you go!" spoke up the girl
who liked to talk, evaporation in her
voice and resignation on her face. IF
Nan was six feet tall and wore No.
gloves would there be weeps in your
voice? Not at all! You'd say, Isn't
it annoying for her! Did you get the
tickets for the matinee?' More es-
and large mouth.
''Im dead tired" went on the girl
who liked to talk, "of every one car
rying around pillows of rose leaves
for a girl to rest ON just because she
has the good luck TO be born small
and knows how to look helpless and
appealing! She may have the vitality
of a government mule and the endur-
ance of steel cable and yet if she
fits her finger everybody says it is a
shame she has to work and tire her
self cut when she is SO fragile.
Why, it's all her little hands can
do to hold the broom!' say her rela-
tives, proudly, and somebody who is
raw boned and patient under affection
takes the weapCr of toll from her
nd Enic VII al
ways finishes her Nork-that is one
of her perquisites They chant the
Fact that she can wear a No. shoe
as triumphantly as though she had
managed it through years of slavish
endeavOr and it was credit to her
own noble exertions!
when she gets married her hus-
band proudly elates how his wife can
stand under his arm and looks patron
izingly on the other women present
who couldn't walk under mans arm
tnless the man measured seven feet
CT more. l don't know why it should
&c so, but a woman always feels
apoOgetic under such circumstances.
The fact is so borne in upon her that
she has failed in one of the prime
requisites Of femininity.
you'll catch cold, dearest says
her husband, when the baby cries at
uieht, and hastily arises to soothe the
lnf;.nt by an hours promenade to
spare her the trouble.
DO you suppose he would do it if
she was i've feet seven? No, indeed!
Fed say things about the duty of a
woman in sharing life's burdens and
remind her that he had to arise very
early in the morning to go to work,
whereas, on the contrary, she could
set a nap during the day-provided
she could find time from her manifold
tasks. And she'd get up and walk,
too, because, no matter how tired she
felt, size would realize that she look
Cd strong and fate compelled her to
lay up to the part.
Il knew a man who was married
twice One wife belonged to the tiny
sisterhood and when she walked
home from a party through a snow
form the man nearly had a fit. He
told her she'd kill herself by such
performances. And what were cabs
and telephones for, anyhow? The
other wife was taller than himself
: I'd cree when she got a cab because
ii was raining and she didn't want to
spoil her clothes he raised his eye
brows and said it beat all how afraid
women were Of a little wholesome
exercise, and did she think he was
m de of money! I'm not saying which
was tie second wife, either!
Nobody expects the little woman
to have any sense in business affairs.
Now, don't you bother,' men say to
her I'll attend to all that. There's
no Use in your worrying your head
off about dry details, and, anyhow,
you'd get q headache studying stocks
and markets and mortgages! You just
leave it to mel!
What happens if the woman is a
head taller? She gets a lecture for
cur life on how idiotic it is for a
" mgn always to depend on some one
e.. : Judgment when she is perfect
= ~@Dahle, if she only thinks so, of
Gee ding things for herself Have
or OF brains in your head storms
tie lecturer, or is it only clarified
Il Ccolate fudge? Why can't you take
81 intelligent interest in things in
stead CT crocheting tidies?'
"TEen the tall woman sneaks off
and wildly puts her money in the
worst stock of the lot that's bound to
go way down to China inside of a
moDth-end then she gets told it's
her own fault. When the man who
invests the little woman's money loses
it the same way he explains that it
was because of unavoidable circum-
stances and the bursting of dam
flooding the railway company's right
Of way and nobody could help it.
''It lasts all through their lives too!
Did you ever see tiny, little, old
WOE an who didn't wear lace caps and
six owns and spend her time knit
ting perfectly useless soft woolly
thing ? And did you ever know
larse massive old woman who didn't
have @ spend her time racing among