Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1893 — A BURGLAR'S ADVICE. [ARTICLE]

A BURGLAR'S ADVICE.

Be Telle Women What to Do in Case of a' midnight Visitation. "The best way for a woman to do If ehe woke up and found a man at work In her room,” said a skilled burglar to a reporter, one day this week, “would he to keep very still and pretend she was stUi sleeping, or, if he knew that she had seen him, to obey his orders and xeep still. If he thought she had submitted he wouldn’t watch her so hard, and it would give her time to think what to do. There's one thing, though, that would be bad for a woman. If a burglar left her room by the door she ought to listen to his footstep or watch the light o’ his lantern, an’ she don’t want to get out o’ bed or move until he is well out of hearing. A man who goes out that way will always stop when he has gone a few feet from the door where a woman is, and, if he hears her jump out of bed at once, he suspects what she’s up to, and would then escape by the nearest window and be out of reach, Or else he would go back an’ make it dangerous for her. She wants ter be cunnin.’ Then ehe can catch him. “A woman with a gun ain’t much count. The best protection a woman in a house alone oan have is a little, nasty whiffet of a dog —one o’ them black beasts that yell at everything and won’t make friends with a feller till he has seen him 500 times. He barks at everything. Then a baby! I’d rather meet a dozen men than run against a little baby. The kid always cries. ”