Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1878 — All a Woman Knows. [ARTICLE]

All a Woman Knows.

A sensation reporter on a Chicago paper went to see a young lady he is keeping; company with, the other night. She ipet'him at the door with a colorless face. “ Oh, Tom 1” she cried, in an agitated voice, “we have had such a scare ! Ma was coming down stairs, and she caught her foot in the carpet and went the whole length ——” “Hold on I” shouted the excited youth, diving nervously into his hippocket for his note-book, while he whipped out a pencil from another recess. “ Now go on !—go on, Matilda ! —go on; but be calm! For heaven’s sake be calm ! Kill her ?” “ Gracious, no!” “ Break her back ? Crush her skull ? Be calm I—be calm I For the sake of science, be calm !” “ Why, Tom !” gasped the girl, frightened by his impetuosity, “ it wasn’t serious. It was ” “ Wasn’t serious ?” he gasped, in turn. “ Do you mean to say she didn’t break anything, after all that fuss ?” “Why, certainly not! She never hurt herself a bit!” “Well,” ejaculated the young man, with an expression of disgust on his face, as he sadly restored the book and pencil to their places, “ that’s all a woman knows about business !”