Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1896 — Where Woman's Time Goes. [ARTICLE]

Where Woman's Time Goes.

“Please state to the court exactly what yon did between 8 and 9 o’clock on Wednesday morning,” said a lawyer to a delicate-looking woman on the witness stand. “Well,’’ she said, after a moment’s reflection, “I washed my two children and got them ready for school and sewed a button on Johnny’s coat, and mended a rent in Nellie’s dress. Then I tidied up my sitting room and made two beds and watered my house plants, and glanced over the morning paper. Then i dusted my parlor and set things to rights in it, and washed some lamp chimneys and combed my baby’s hair, and sewed a button on one of her little shoes, and then I swept out my froinit entry and brushed and put away the children’s Sunday clothes, and wrote a note to Jimmy’s teacher asking her to excuse him for not being at school On Friday. Then I fed my canary bird and gave |hp grocery man an order, add swept off the back porch, and then I sat down and rested a few minutes before the clock struck 9. That's all.” “All!” said the dazed lawyer. “Excuse me, judge; I must get my breath before I call the next witness.”