The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1910-01-08

MUST heart,to-heart talk upon the
~ twin subjects of servants and
murders. One naturally leads to the
other.
And, at the start, l want to say that
I totally disapprove of servants as
subject of conversation. The trials
of housekeepers should be tabooed
topic And | will say the same OF
murder trials.
For myself, make it point never
to read about murders. | can get ali
l want from the headlines. TO be
sure, there are exceptions to every
rule; there was Robin Graves, who
murdered his great-grandmother on
dare from his fellow medical students.
l didn't read anything about it, but l
heard people discussing it. and it had
elements of interest in 1t. And l al
ways thought that Probyn-Clew case
far from dull You may remember
that Probyn sent Clew poisoned car
amel on the very day that Clew sent
Probyn a poisoned peppermint, and
the papers were full of it. | gathered
enough to enable me to hold my end
I'D when ! encountered a person with
bad enough taste to discuss the SUB
jest 1t was deplorable the way
people harped on that case.
Then take the affair of the land
lady who murdered all hel boarders
because they resented raise in the
price of board, What mine of wealth
that was to the reporters! My paper
had six columns a day for 20 days and
| just had to read that because there
was nothing else, but politics, in the
paper; but ! felt that it was no sub
iect for a person of any refinement.
Yet | knew one man who makes quite
a pretense of being up in the English
classics. and he knew every point in
the trial. | could not trip him up on
a single bit of evidence. That expert
ence just about destroyed my faith in
humanity. My brother said that
talked Of nothing else but that trial,
and he was quite right. | was com
pletely absorbed in trying to find
some person who knew nothing of it.
And at last did find an old lady who
never reads the papers. She had not
even heard about it. She wanted to
discuss one of Fishes books on evolu-
ton, but said, See here, Mrs. De
lancey, you're a rara avis. You're the
first person I've met who has not
heard about this unique series of MUIR
ders, and I'm just going to tell you
the whole story so that you may see
for yourself what it is that fills
peoples minds in these degenerate
days" And so | told her the whole
story and she listened GREATNESS; this
cultivated woman was positively as
interested as if she had been a police
man, off Cor on) duty, and discussing
shop with brother officer. Oh, l was
sickened.
After a while she wanted TO shift
off to evolution so that she wouldn't
dream of the horrible murders, but
looked at my watch and saw that
had a train to catch, end again FiSke
was sidetracked. Fiske, with his lu-
ness, was side-tracked for a horrible
murder.
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