Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1901 — Womanly “Tenderness.” [ARTICLE]

Womanly “Tenderness.”

“Don’t talk to me of the tenderness of woman’s heart," said the man who hates women, though he has never been married. “She hasn’t any, I was traveling recently on a through train to New York from the west, aftd in the morning, just after most of us had dressed and were sitting in the end of the car, the conductor came and called two men away. One of them belonged to an Intelligent and well dressed woman sitting opposite me, and when he came back she asked him what the conductor wanted. “ ‘Why,’ said the man seriously, ‘the man in lower 8 has been found dead.’ -“The woman’s eyes widened, and I thought she was going to say something sweet and sympathetic, bat she didn’t What she said was: “ ‘Why, how thoughtless of him, in a car with all these women too!’ “Don’t talk to me about women.”— Washington Post