"WASN’T SHE A WOMAN?"

Evening Star, Issue 4057, 26 February 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

"WASN’T SHE A WOMAN?"

. Outside papers must quit publishing fictftipus items about Detroit (says the, *• Press’), or some one will, get h\jrt,' Yesterday afternoon, a. woman, with a black belt and a. pair of spectacles om- entered the editorial rooms of this paper, holding a Chicago daily in her hand, and she.walked up.to a stoopishouldered consumptive toiler, who had dropped in to see hj New York and > grimly asked; “ Who’s Sarah ! ?!’vile replied that he had never heardof her, when she unfolded the paper and pointed; to thd following There’s an old woman in Detroit named Sarah who hap worn one pair of stockings right along for sixteen weeks.” “It’s a. lie,” saad the old lady,, “ and you’ve gotto.takeitbackorr-oi>—l’ll—-by sliding her hand along' his: shoulder; until her.tmgera got hold of his necktie. - “I haven t nothing'to. dp-with-that,” he gurgled, as he tned to pull away that's $ Chicago paper.” “I know it, but it’s,a and I can prove it.” “ I know yon can, madam, if it was, meant for you. .1 don,*t; believe, you’d go eight, weeks without ehangmg stockings.” '"No, or evensix,” ! she exclaimed, pressing against “Adam’s apple” with her thumb. “I can prove that I change, as often as anyone else.” “ I don’t think it means you,” he said, getting his left eye on the item, “Yes it foamed, “ Ain’t my name Sarah, and ain’t I oldish, and ain’t I a woman ? Oh !■ such • lies make my blood bile! ” “ Well, you want to go*' for some one in, Chicago, It has nothing to do. with this paper.” “Hain’t, eh ? 1 know better! • You aje all linked in together, and, I presume yon read that yesterday and lafed and lafed, and thought Sarah was an old fool!” “I never saw it before.” “ But Sarah is no fool!” she resumed, towering above him. “You just mark this, you long-geated grave stone you: u thar s another item in the papera about Sarah you’ll never know, broke.your neck!” And she laid her fist on the table, flounushed it under bis nose* and wont out saying: “Sixteen weeksJ Think b! the baseness of it 1” . : , ' .