Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — Only a Woman. [ARTICLE]

Only a Woman.

The good man, weighing a hundred stone, knocked timidly at the portal of the culinary department, and as the door swung heavily back upon its hinges doffed his tattered hat and piteously whispered: “Kind lady ” “I’m not kind,” she interrupted rudely. “Excuse me, lady ” “Don’t lady me!” was her quick response. “Yer don’t mean ter say yer only f. woman?” he asked scarely. “That’s what I am!” she shouted. And as the heavy bolts shot back into their places the vagrant took another reef in the clothesline about his waist and sighed. “Oh, my, why didn’t I take notice of dat bicycle on de stoop before I spoke?”—Leslie’s Weekly.