Show women and mice 1 I wish somebody would find something to take the place of the exceedingly stale aud silly women and mice paragraph which has been going the rounds of the papers with divers and sundry changes rung an it ever since 1 can remember and goodness knows how anch longer said a charming little woman as she opened the mousetrap and let two or three of its occupants out into the jaws of a number of hungry kittens 1 I wonder who started it anyway of course there are women who are afraid of mice no doubt but I 1 never saw a woman make herself more ridiculous over a mouse than a certain man did when one of these harmless little creatures scooted up the leg of his tron 1 I dont imagine any one would feel especially comfortable with any such foreign element meandering around ones preserves but why women and mice in particular is what 1 dont understand 1 think there are very few housekeepers bat what have frequent occasions to come in contact with rats as well as mice and as far as 1 can see they seem events I 1 never beard of anybody dying from fear of them I 1 suppose that the mouse paragraph must be near akin to that of the mother in law be that as it may both are so threadbare and faded and frayed out and bleached with time and hard service that it would bo a work of mercy for some benevolent and intelligent to get up a new of ammunition new york ledger |