The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-02-09
OPPOSED TO
SUFFRACETTES
Prejudiced Views of a Hen
pecked Husband.

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wife was not person to be lived With
on amiable terms. After she had gont
to bed the farmer and sat together
chatting. / asked him If he liked to
read
"Waal, stranger" he said. Il reckon
do like to read eff kin git the books
For a long time l had nOthin' but
Shakespeare and the Bible. But last
winter / got a historical book about
them kings and queens of England. |
was interested in one of 'em. king
called Henry VIII. That king was
the only man ever read or heered
about that got ahead of six wimmin-
all his wives, and didn't hev to kill
more'n two of 'em neither"
sHe was q monster / protested.
WAL. now. stranger. | hain't so
sartin about that | don't know that
he was quite excusable in the matter
Of his first wife. the Spanish woman;
but, We see. man to git ahead Of six
wimmin has got to be mighty sharp
II remember right. Henry he'd mar
ried his brothers wilder, which Is con-
trary to Scripture. and after Twin with
her twenty years his conscience trou-
bled him. 1t may be tibet he hadn't
orter married her in the first place.
but 1t makes a good deal Of difference
whether a woman'sr young and amia-
BILE or old and spiteful. No, | think.
under the circumstances. Henry was
excusable for gitten a tender con-
science at the right time"
you surely don't approve of his be-
heading Anne BOleyn, his second
wife?'
"WaaL now. 1 hain't so sartin about
that neither. Henry's conscience was
Il very tender one and. as said afore.
always pricked him at a convenient
time When his first wife died he
: wanted 10 show her every mark of re-
spec and ordered his court to put on
sbIack. Anne Boleyn showed what kind
Of a woman she was when she order
ed her wimmin to wear yaller. That
made Henry mad. 1t was a convenient
time to be mad EIe was gittin' ready
for his next wife"
AAAC Till VAAS' AOAAaA hO0s OdAS
Seymour, was, believe. the only one
Of the six who died a natural death
while married to him. The next. Anne
of Cloves. he divorced without be-
heading her,
1.-The Cleves woman was the only
sensible one o. the lot. the only one
that come any ways near gittin' even
with the king. When he said You gitr
she was very much pleased to CO."
'sWhat do you think of the case Of
Katherine HowardT'
"Lemme see What did she dor
There's so many OF 'em forgit."
LAS mere child she had been led
sort Of marriage with a low bred fell
low who afterward turned pirate. As
soon as she married the king all those
who had led her astray"-
81 remember now. They all turned
Office seekers. and the queen had to
give 'em situations or they'd blow on
her. Waai, now don't see how Hen
~ could "a done any different. He
wouldn't believe nothin' agin her till
the hull thing was out. Katherine
was one O. them middle-o -the-road
wimmin. She might "a lived eff she'd
only given in. She wouldn't own up
to her first marriage. The king
couldn't git nullment OF his mar
rage on any other ground. so he had
to chop her head off. She done that:
Henry didn't. Y see. stranger. there's
popularity about wimmin that it re-
Qufres jist such man as Henry to
handle. They never give in Kath
In dom so she only showed a womans
natuT
There's another point In Henry's "a
vor. He had two gals to leave the
crown to and only one boy. an he a
weakling. Henry had a material insight
into wimmin's onfitness to run things.
and, having tender conscience. it
grieved him to think o. leavin' his peo-
pie to suffer under EN-. And it turned
out he was right. His first darter was
Bloody Mary whose name speaks for
her. Then comes Elizabeth. who cut
of the heads Of the men she loved.
mo. stranger; in summin' up the
married life O. Henry VIII. consider
that he was remarkable man, and
very conscientious one He done all
he could to keep England from bein'
pestered with wimmin rulers. and for
that alone he Orter be hoEored by his
grateful countrymen. Six Of 'em! Jist
think Of it, stranger-six Of 'em! What
would you and | do with such lot.
restricted by law as we air? Henry
VIII. was a great and good man"
The farmers arguments set me to
thinking. OF late years we have had
lives Of Aaron Burr, setting forth his
virtues. and OF Benedict Arnold. show
ing how bad treatment and memorable
fate compelled him to betray his cOun-
try. / confess the farmers logic Inn
pressed me as favorably as many lives
have read Of the worlds prominent
sinners.