Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1909 — The Obnoxious One. [ARTICLE]

The Obnoxious One.

She who accepts a courtesy as a matter cf course, or, if it is not offered, demands it, if not in words, by her sour looks. The woman who forces her personality upon strangers and expresses her opinion even though she knows it is not wanted. The boasting woman who is always parading her important relatives and snubbing those who do not add to her prestige. She who is domineering to her inferiors and cringing to those from whom she has something to gain. She who thinks it too much trouble to say a quiet word of thanks when a seat is offered to her in the street car. The loud-voiced woman and the one who is slangy or tells stories better untold. The woman who is not Interested and does not hesitate to show it regardless of the other person’s feelings. She who goes to concert or lecture solely for the pleasure of hearing her own voice and who looks aggrieved or gets impertinent when irritated neighbors try to hush her.

The woman who takes more than her share of a common belonging. She it is who piles her bundles ostentatiously next the aisle in a crowded car and scowls when the conductor asks her to give up the seat.

She who gushes over a person she dislikes and cannot wait, until that same person’s back is turned to revile her. She who thinks conversation was made to spread scandal and who will tear up her best friend to raise a laugh.

The woman who considers it clever to be cutting and has no thought how much it hurts.

The woman whose God is gold, whose conversation bristles with money and whose vision shuts out all of life that is not convertible into cold coin or its equivalent, pomp.