Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — Unreasonable Woman. [ARTICLE]

Unreasonable Woman.

Although much has bean said and written on the subject, we do not yet realize how desperately lonely a woman can be In a thinly settled fanning community. Probably no one can ever realize it except the woman herself. They had taken Seth Hodgkins' wife to the state Insane asylum. The day after she left Mm, Seth—who had been a good husband to her from the date of her tln-wedding anniversary to the date of her silver-wedding, and through all the Intervening anniversaries—which there had been no parties to celebrate—received a visit of condolence from his nearest neighbor, two miles away. - Seth turned from a sink plied high with dirty dishes, to clear a chair for his guest. “I shall have to Mre more help. it seems as if she had been gone a year/’ he said. ■; << “{ always supposed that Harriet enjoyed good health,” said the sympathizing friend. Harriet Hodgkins’ husband looked in dazed and futile Inquiry from the sprawly pattern on the bright new oilcloth that she had bought with the carefully saved egg-money to the view from the a wide, snowy field, some tall, funereal ever-green-trees and a patch of darkening sky. The kitchen did not face the road. "I cannot understand,” he said, “what ailed Harriet She has hazelly been out of this kitchen for fifteen years."—Youth’s Companion.