Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1913 — All the Average Plain Little Woman Has to Do [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

All the Average Plain Little Woman Has to Do

SEATTLE, Wash.—She was just a plain, middle-aged little woman, unpretentious in dress and bearing—the kind that is met with by the hundred every day in the stores, on the sidewalks and in the street cars, usually carrying bundles. She was on the witness stand and the lawyer had asked her what she did after looking out of a window at ten o’clock in the evening and seeing a policeman arrest a man. * “I didn’t do anything to speak of,” she said. “I just set some bread to rise and mended a hole in one of my children’s stockings, and put some clothes I wanted to wash the next day to soak, and chopped up some po-

tatoes and meat to make hash for breakfast and put a button on my husband’s trousers, and set the table for breakfast, so as to save time in the morning, and laid the fire so I wouldn’t have anything to do but light It In the morning. “Then I sort 6t tidied up my kitchen and seeded some raisins for a cake I wanted to bake the next morning and emptied 'the water under the ice chest, and w«mt down the cellar to see that the furnace was all right for the night. I brought some apples up from the cellar and peeled them so as to have them ready for something I wanted to make the next morning. Then I wound up the clock and read the morning paper for a few minutes and did three or four little things a woman is apt to do before she goes to bed when she has a family to look after. But nothing to speak of, after all." Probably, if she had lived in the country she would also have got' a lantern and sawed and split enough cord-wood for the next day’s fuel.