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Show WOMEN AND UUHOLAR. H Th Cl.r.11. Met rr Tli.ni K.r ! H Than Han !. rH "A few week ago my wife had n laaxQ narrow escape from death at the liandt taM of a burglar.' raid W K Hart a nil n dent of Chicago I aa from home a (flu the time She waa auddenly awakened vKn and saw a nun at the bureau Kh uffK leaped from tho bed anil relied a light EiiwJ rocking chair The fellow ran to th yKSul open window hut ihe brought the aHtxf chair down on his head He turned and Snfl fired but missed, the bullet entering; jgaflt the relllng He had n ladder ut tha PflE window and made hla escape Then HeS my wife fainted She says she hal no KB fear until It waa nil nrer, but wa only tSaK Indignant Within a month I havs LwmC. noted twelve case where a womin haa RvV attacked and In most Instance rK aTBn tured a burglar In molt rate tbe turn- Qgattj Kind haa been sound asleep appurenU BuSl ly until the thief was caught or es- HH raped don t think It Is either cour- MCM age or tho rashness ot Ignorance thai, Hl Induce women lo do what tew men; M would Moit men have figured It outi M that they one It to their families not H to risk life lu a fight with desprrtt H scoundrels for a little portable prop- M erty Women do not think about It at H all Awakened auddenly and fin ling M somebody after tho money they have M ssved for a new hat they make a dash H at Ihe Intruder with no other Idea H than to recuier the money or Jewolry, H Tbe women Is too absorbed even to H cry out and awaken her husband Her M attack Is so furious and aurprlilng that H th bewildered burglar Is cawsd or H stampeded Probably he li married. H When the affair la over tho natural H timidity of the sex asserts Itself and H iho Inglorlously swoons ' New Or H leans Times Democrat. IH |