Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1894 — A BURgLAR'S ADVICE. [ARTICLE]

A BURgLAR'S ADVICE.

Ma Tell- Woman Who* to Do in Cm* of ■ Midnight Visitation. ’The best way for a woman to do If •he woke up and found a man at work In her room," said a skilled burglar t« a reporter, one day this week, “would |o to keep very still and pretend she tras still sleeping, or, if ha knew that she had seen him, to obey Me orders and xeep still. If he thought she had submitted he wouldn’t watoh 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 watoh the light o' his lantern, an’ she don’t want to get out o’ bed or move until ho 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 ho would go back an’ make it dangerous for her. She wants ter be ounnln.’ Then she can catch him. “A woman with a gun ain’t much count. The best protection a woman In a house alone can 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. Ho barks nt everything. Then a baby! I’d rather meet a dosen men than run against a little baby. The kid always cries."