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From: "Stacy Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [IADECATU] 'HOW A WOMAN SAWS WOOD' - Newspaper Article.
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:57:02 -0600
References: <IKEHJNODOBEHKHFBPPJHOEDPCEAA.tim@garberfamily.com>


Actually, I thought it was left off intentionally at the first writing.....
because of course us women will never learn that men....
;-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Garber" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 7:23 PM
Subject: RE: [IADECATU] 'HOW A WOMAN SAWS WOOD' - Newspaper Article.


> I hate cliff-hangers! Quick someone find the ending.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancee(McMurtrey)Seifert [mailto:]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:23 PM
> To:
> Subject: [IADECATU] 'HOW A WOMAN SAWS WOOD' - Newspaper Article.
>
>
> The Chariton Patriot, Chariton, Iowa
> Wednesday, March 11, l874
>
> 'HOW A WOMAN SAWS WOOD'
> ---------------
> Did you ever see a woman undertake to saw wood? It is always a little
while
> before dinner, when the pies won't bake, and the potatoes absolutely
refuse
> to come to the boiling point, and the only stick of wood is exactly three
> inches too long. After vain attempts to prove the elasticity of matter by
> putting a two- foot, three-inch stick into a two foot stove, she goes out
to
> the saw horse, puts her knee on the refractory stick in the way she has
seen
> men do. But the edges of the wood are sharp, and she takes it down again
> with an ejaculation, and with a growing disregard for appearances, puts
her
> foot on it instead. Her hair never fails to come down at this juncture,
and
> she has to stop and twist it into a tight knot behind, before beginning to
> saw. Here the saw commences a frantic jumping and skipping on its own
> account, and the whole feminine mind being concentrated upon keeping up
the
> foot that is up, and down the foot that should be down, until, in an
unlucky
> moment,!
> the center of gravity is lost, the stick flies up and launches a blow at
> her nose, just as somebody is going by. -- She stops and pretends to be
> looking for something, while dark thoughts of divorce and separation flush
> through her mind, and she vows in her innocent soul that she will never
> attempt to saw wood again if there never is any dinner. But her pride and
> her dinner are at stake, and all her native obstinancy comes to the
surface;
> she will conquer that stick or die. Fired by a new fury, she succeeds in
> sawing two-thirds of the way through, and breaking off the rest of it. --
> It is a rotten rail -- she goes into the house to find the potatoes boiled
> dry, and the pie in a state of sodden uncertainty. The children come home
> from school and the husband from the shop, and find a kind of solemnity in
> the air, and no pie for dinner. This merridial meal is eaten in silence
and
> bitter news of heart, and then the wife of his bosom inquires if she is
> expected t take care !
> of the stable and feed the pigs, as well as saw wood. The man says: "Hang
it
> all, I forgot" and the woman drops her sarcasm and breaks down in the
> declaration that she "never will do it again -- never"..
> But she will, she will do it, tomorrow, and the next day, and the day
after,
> for one of the things that women never will learn is that (*the last part
of
> the sentence is missing..)
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
> ----
>
> Copied by Nancee
> *Draatz -- what did the last part of the sentence say?
>
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