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Posted by: IceWizard - 11-19-2023, 11:39 PM - Forum: World News
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Rosalynn Carter,
first lady who championed mental health,
dies at 96
She sat in on Cabinet meetings of her husband, Jimmy Carter,
advised on policy issues and pushed Congress
to pass mental health legislation
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Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter at New York's Madison Square Garden
on July 15, 1976, the day Jimmy Carter won the Democratic nomination
for president. (AP)
Rosalynn Carter, a close political and policy adviser to her husband, President Jimmy Carter, who created
the modern Office of the First Lady and advocated for better treatment of the mentally ill during her years
in the White House and for four decades afterward, died Nov. 19 at her home in Plains, Ga. She was 96.
The Carter Center in Atlanta, which announced her death, had revealed in May that she had dementia.
On Friday, two days before her death, the center said she was in hospice care at home.
The Carters had been married for more than 77 years, the longest presidential marriage in U.S. history,
and spent the final months of their time together at the family home in the town of Plains, in southwest Georgia.
The former president decided in February to stop medical treatment for an aggressive form of melanoma skin cancer.
During her husband’s 1976 presidential campaign, Mrs. Carter acquired the label “steel magnolia,”
a reference to her soft-spoken Southern demeanor that disguised an ambitious and resolute nature.
Determined not to be relegated to a ceremonial role, she worked in the tradition of former first lady
Eleanor Roosevelt to make herself an extension of the president and his policies. She was the first first lady
to maintain an office in the East Wing of the White House and only the second, after Roosevelt, to testify in Congress.
In May and June 1977, President Jimmy Carter dispatched his wife on a diplomatic trip to Latin America
that was substantive rather than social and unprecedented for a first lady. Her grueling trip took her to
seven countries and across more than 12,000 miles in 13 days. Her mission was to explain American
foreign policy to a part of the world that her husband believed the United States had neglected.
She engaged Central and South American government figures on issues that included human rights,
beef exports, arms reduction, demilitarization, drug trafficking and nuclear energy. After each day’s talks,
she filed a report with the State Department. At many of her meetings, she spoke in Spanish, having
recently completed an intensive language course.
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Mrs. Carter championed political veteran Sen. Walter F. Mondale (D-Minn.) as her husband’s running mate
and worked hard for issues that interested her personally: mental health, elder care and the
Equal Rights Amendment.
Despite her professional accomplishments, some women doubted the strength of her commitment to
feminism. Although she never advocated repealing Roe v. Wade, the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision
that effectively legalized abortion, she considered abortion objectionable on moral and religious grounds.
Mrs. Carter encouraged her husband to bring Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar Sadat of Egypt
together at the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland for peace talks in 1978. Dividing her
time between Camp David and the White House, she provided support and advice as her husband
brokered a historic peace agreement between the two nations.
It was Rosalynn Carter, responding to plunging poll numbers for the Carter White House in 1979,
who suggested to her husband that he shake up his Cabinet and give a “crisis of confidence” speech
to the nation. While Jimmy Carter never used the word, it became widely known as the “malaise” speech.
In her memoir, “First Lady From Plains” (1984), she described herself as “much more political than
Jimmy and … more concerned about popularity and winning reelection.” She said she urged her husband
“to postpone certain controversies, such as the Panama Canal treaties or some of the Mideast decisions,
until his second term.” She spoke repeatedly of her thirst for victory. “I don’t like to take a chance on losing,”
she wrote. “I always want to win!”
In a 2018 interview with The Washington Post, Mrs. Carter said she was more upset than her husband
when he lost his 1980 reelection bid to Ronald Reagan.
“I hate to lose,” she said.
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The Carters’ close working relationship began in the farming community of Plains, where they knew each
other virtually from birth. They returned to Plains after Jimmy Carter left a promising Navy career to take
over the family peanut warehouse when his father died. She was a full partner in every decision her
husband made in regard to the business.
Years later, in the decades after Jimmy Carter’s loss to Reagan, the couple continued their partnership
as co-founders of the Carter Center, an Atlanta-based nonprofit organization committed to human rights
and the elimination of suffering around the world.
From Plains to Washington
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born on Aug. 18, 1927, on her mother’s family farm outside Plains, then
a village of about 600 people. When she was 13, her father, a mechanic and school bus driver, died of
leukemia. Left with only a small life insurance policy and a meager pension, her mother made ends meet
by taking in sewing and working part time in a grocery store before becoming the Plains postmistress.
Rosalynn, the eldest daughter, looked after the younger children, helped with the sewing and earned
spending money by shampooing hair in a beauty parlor. She also was valedictorian of her graduating class.
She commuted to Georgia Southwestern College, a two-year college in nearby Americus, where she
took secretarial courses and was active with the Young Democrats. Her best friend was Ruth Carter,
the younger sister of Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter, three years older than Rosalynn, took little notice of his sister’s friend until the summer
of 1945, just before he was to return for his final year at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis.
After one date, the dashing young midshipman announced to his mother that Rosalynn was the girl
he intended to marry.
Following a whirlwind courtship, they married on July 7, 1946, a few weeks after graduation ceremonies
at Annapolis. Rosalynn was a few weeks short of 19; he was 21.
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The Carters' wedding day in 1946.
(The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum)
The young wife was eager to get out of Plains and looked forward to broader horizons in the company
of her naval officer husband. For the next seven years, Mrs. Carter followed her husband to a succession
of postings as Jimmy Carter advanced toward becoming a submarine commander. They also had
three sons during the years 1947 to 1952.
The arc of their married life suddenly changed in 1953, when Mrs. Carter’s father-in-law died of cancer,
and Jimmy Carter decided to give up his Navy career and return to the family business in Plains.
Rosalynn Carter hated the idea.
“I argued, I cried. I even screamed at him,” she wrote in her memoir. “I loved our life in the Navy and
the independence I had finally achieved. I knew it would be gone if I went home to live in the same
community with my mother and Jimmy’s mother.”
Inseparable: On their 75th anniversary, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter celebrate a record-setting love story
back where it all started
Her tears and screaming were unavailing. In 1954, the Carters returned to Plains.
“I thought the best part of my life had ended,” she recalled in her autobiography.
“But Jimmy turned to me with a smile and said cheerfully, ‘We’re home!’”
They returned to Plains in time to endure one of the worst droughts in Georgia history.
The peanut crop failed, the cotton and corn crops burned up, and their income that first year
was less than $200.
Since there was no money to hire help, they plunged side by side into their work at the
warehouse — Rosalynn keeping the books, Jimmy working in the warehouse and drumming
up business from area peanut farmers. The rains came in 1955, and the husband-and-wife
team gradually turned the business around.
In 1962, Jimmy Carter ran for a seat in the Georgia state Senate, and his wife took charge of
all his campaign correspondence. After he was elected, she managed the family business during
the three months of the year he was away in Atlanta.
She also played a major role in his first campaign for governor in 1966, a campaign that resulted
in a bitter defeat in the Democratic primary to Lester Maddox, a fiery segregationist who had
made his reputation by waving a pistol and brandishing an ax handle at African Americans who
tried to eat at his Atlanta restaurant. A year later, the couple had their fourth child, Amy, who was
born a few months after Rosalynn Carter turned 40.
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In addition to her husband and daughter, survivors include three sons, John W. “Jack” Carter,
James E. “Chip” Carter III, and Donnel J. “Jeff” Carter; 11 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Working behind the scenes
During her husband’s early political campaigns, Rosalynn Carter was content to work behind the scenes.
After he was elected governor in 1970, she developed a newfound confidence in her capacity as the state’s
official hostess and in her public-speaking obligations.
She developed an interest in mental health issues, in part because of childhood memories of a distant
cousin in Plains who was in and out of a state mental institution.
She served as a member of the Governor’s Commission to Improve Service for the Mentally and
Emotionally Handicapped. She helped establish 134 day-care centers for the state’s mentally disabled
residents, and she volunteered at the Georgia Regional Hospital in Atlanta to gain further firsthand
experience with the problems of the mentally ill.
“In 1971, when we went to the Governor’s Mansion, I had thought we would be going home to Plains in 1975,
because the governor of Georgia could not succeed himself,” Mrs. Carter recalled. “But we weren’t. Since
early 1972, Jimmy had been quietly planning to run for president.”
Carter had been, in essence, measuring himself against potential presidents who happened to come
through Georgia and were political guests of the Carters. They included Sens. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine),
Henry M. “Scoop” Jackson (D-Wash.), George S. McGovern (D-S.D.) and Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn.),
the Democratic Party’s nominee in 1968.
When her husband made his candidacy official, she plunged in as usual in support of his political aspirations,
although she recalled that when she told people during the early days of the campaign that he was running
for president, she was often asked, “President of what?”
She campaigned for 18 months in a total of 42 states. She recalled answering questions about mental health,
education, prison reform, the reorganization of government and the price of fertilizer.
Running as an outsider with a mandate to clean up Watergate-ridden Washington, the relatively unknown
governor from Georgia secured the Democratic nomination and the right to contest the Republican incumbent,
Gerald Ford. In the early morning of Nov. 3, 1976, Ford conceded, and Jimmy Carter was elected the
39th president of the United States.
Rosalynn Carter found life in the White House exhilarating, particularly during the early months, but she
continued to maintain the parameters of the working partnership she and her husband had crafted years
earlier. Throughout their four years in Washington, she kept the books, wrote the checks and kept track
of income tax obligations.
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With her husband’s support and over the objections of others, Rosalynn Carter expanded the role of the
first lady. She attended Cabinet meetings, worked on mental health and other policy priorities, and formally
created the Office of the First Lady in the East Wing with its own chief of staff.
“There are very few people in this administration that I fear,” an unnamed White House staffer told Newsweek.
“Rosalynn Carter is at the top of the list.”
Mrs. Carter wrote in her memoir: “Once the press and our persistent opponents heard about my attendance
at the meetings, very soon it was rumored that I was ‘telling’ Jimmy what to do! They obviously didn’t
know Jimmy! But I also think there was a not very subtle implication that Cabinet meetings were no
place for a wife. I was supposed to take care of the house — period.”
The historic high point of the Carter administration was the signing of the Camp David Accords between
Egypt and Israel in 1978. Mrs. Carter recalled that she and her husband expected to stay at Camp David
for three or four days as hosts of Begin and Sadat. They stayed 12 days, pushing past dejection,
disappointment and dashed hopes to an agreement that outlined a framework for a comprehensive
Middle East peace.
She was proud of her husband. “Begin and Sadat shared the Nobel Peace Prize that year,” she wrote in
her memoir, “but it was Jimmy who had made it possible.” Jimmy Carter received a Nobel Peace Prize 24
years later for his post-presidential work on global conflict resolution and human rights advocacy.
As first lady, Mrs. Carter continued working on strategies for helping the mentally ill.
“I wanted to take mental illnesses and emotional disorders out of the closet, to let people know it is all
right to admit having a problem without the fear of being called crazy,” she wrote in her autobiography.
“If only we could consider mental illnesses as straightforwardly as we do physical illnesses, those affected
could seek help and be treated in an open and effective way.”
Her efforts were instrumental in congressional approval and funding for the Mental Health Systems Act
of September 1980, the first major reform of federal, publicly funded mental health programs in nearly
two decades.
“Our celebration was brief,” Mrs. Carter recalled in her book. “Within a month Ronald Reagan was
elected president, and with the change of administration, many of our dreams and the bulk of the
funding for our program were gone … It was a bitter loss.”
The mental health disappointment came toward the end of the Carter presidency. The beginning of the
end was Iran, where, on the morning of Nov. 4, 1979, militants seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran
and held U.S. diplomats hostage for 444 days.
Mrs. Carter urged her husband to immediately enact an oil embargo, but when neither that action nor
any other could gain the hostages’ quick release, public opinion turned against the administration.
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With the president confined to the White House because of the hostage crisis, Mrs. Carter took to the
campaign trail. She traveled the country as his representative during the winter and spring primary season
of 1980. She also worked to woo supporters of his challenger, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass).
On election night, when it was clear that Jimmy Carter would lose overwhelmingly to the Republican nominee,
Reagan, a White House staff member mentioned to the president that he didn’t seem bitter.
Mrs. Carter responded: “I’m bitter enough for the both of us.”
“I meant it,” she wrote in her memoir. “I was bitter at what I had seen on television for weeks that I
thought was so unfair to Jimmy; bitter about the hostage situation dominating the news for the last
few days before the election as the media ‘celebrated’ the anniversary of the hostage capture; bitter
at the opposition for deliberately misleading the American people; bitter that they blamed Jimmy for
the hostage crisis when they should have praised him for his sound judgment and patience.”
After Reagan’s inauguration in January 1981, the Carters went home to Plains, to the house they had
built two decades earlier. Leaving the White House much sooner than they expected, they were profoundly
frustrated by Jimmy Carter’s unfinished agenda and worried about the fate of the nation under Reagan.
The former president was 56, the former first lady was 53, and they had to figure out what to do with
the rest of their lives, as they recounted in the book they co-wrote, “Everything to Gain: Making the
Most of the Rest of Your Life” (1987).
In 1982, they founded the Carter Center, where Rosalynn Carter continued her involvement with
mental health issues as chairwoman of the center’s Mental Health Task Force. She wrote or co-wrote
five books, mainly about caregiving and mental health.
She traveled around the world for the Carter Center on trips to promote human rights and peace
initiatives and to monitor elections. She and her husband spent a week a year building homes for
low-income people with Habitat for Humanity, and they built or remodeled more than 4,300 homes
in 14 countries.
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In the 2018 interview with The Post, she said that in a recent remodel of their home in Plains, she and the
former president knocked down a bedroom wall themselves rather than letting the contractor do it.
“By that time, we had worked with Habitat so much that it was just second nature,” she said.
Even well into their 90s, the Carters would walk at least a half-mile a day for exercise on the streets of
the town where they both were born, and where they planned to be buried on their land beneath a
pretty willow tree.
They conducted part of the 2018 interview while walking down West Church Street toward their home.
Jimmy Carter pointed out the Plains United Methodist Church, where he first spotted his future wife.
They went to a movie, and the next morning Carter told his mother that he was going to marry Rosalynn.
“I didn’t know that for years,” she said with a smile, holding his hand.
They were asked if they wanted for anything.
“I can’t think of anything,” Carter said, turning to Rosalynn. “And you?”
“No, I’m happy,” she said.
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Posted by: IceWizard - 11-17-2023, 08:39 PM - Forum: World News
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Rashida Tlaib Reportedly a Member of Secret Facebook Group
Where Hamas is Glorified
November 15, 2023
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib is part of a secret social media group in which its members have glamorized Hamas
in its war battle with Israel after the terror group attacked and killed hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians
last month, Fox News Digital has found.
The Michigan Democrat is a member of the Palestinian American Congress group on Facebook.
The group is hidden from non-members and does not appear on the platform’s search engine,
though Fox News Digital was able to gain access to it.
The group’s founder, Maher Abdel-qader, who has extensive ties to Tlaib and has also been linked to
other liberal politicians, has come under fire in the past for his antisemitic social media posts,
including questioning if the Holocaust ever occurred.
The Palestinian American Congress group, of which Tlaib is a member, has featured pro-Hamas posts
in the wake of the deadly Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
On Oct. 12, one group member posted: “We don’t want to throw you in the sea…we want you to
ride it back from where you came.” The message was accompanied by a picture of an elderly
Israeli woman and a Hamas fighter holding her captive.
On Oct. 19, another group member wrote about the “achievements” of the “resistance in Northern
occupied Palestine,” including dozens of dead Israeli soldiers. The post included a picture of a Hamas fighter.
“Since yesterday I have been attached to the TV watching the news,” one group member posted on
Oct. 10, addressing the “American Media” and saying, “You, and the people directing you, are the
problem, you created it almost 100 years ago, made it official 75 years ago and you have been feeding
its flam ever since.”
“You consider Hamas a terrorist organization and I am not going to argue with you at the same time
you have been broadcasting that they have been killing women and children, guess that is what terrorists
do at the same time no mention to the killing of Palestinian women, children and entire families killed
on a daily basses (sic) by the [peace-loving] state of Israel using American gifts of weapons and jet fighters.”
“Yesterday I didn’t see Hamas I saw the grand kids (sic) of the refugees that ethnically cleansed from
their homeland attacking the grand kids (sic) of the colonists whom sent them to diaspora,” they later wrote.
Tlaib became a member of the group six years ago and posted in it during her 2018 congressional
campaign. The following year, she came under fire after a report in the Daily Caller News Foundation
revealed her membership and the slew of antisemitic posts in the group.
Tlaib is the only Palestinian American in Congress and has faced scrutiny over her comments after Hamas’
bloody invasion and the ensuing war. In a largely symbolic gesture, the House of Representatives voted
to censure her in a 234-188 vote last week as a formal public rebuke of her most recent anti-Israel
comments made in the wake of the Jewish nation’s battle against the terror group.
Tlaib has a long history with Abdel-qader, the founder of the Palestinian American Congress group,
who has repeatedly promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories over the years.
Abdel-qader has participated in several fundraising events with Tlaib over the years and has also appeared
in several pictures with her posted to social media accounts.
On Monday, Abdel-qader posted a flier on his Facebook page, advertising a Chicago fundraiser for
Tlaib and Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Summer Lee, two congresswomen who he says
“whole heartedly (sic) support” their community and the “just cause of Palestine.”
And in addition to Tlaib, Abdel-qader has also shown support for several other progressive politicians,
including fellow “Squad” member Cori Bush of Missouri.
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Posted by: Charon - 11-16-2023, 11:41 PM - Forum: The Lounge
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just the usual suspects. tubitv suddenly says i cannot watch trains planes and automobiles.
so i found it on plutotv. free there also.
but one cannot pause it or stop it and or rewind it.
cuz i go out of my way to pay for nothing esp nowadays.
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| rand paul exposes AARP |
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Posted by: Charon - 11-14-2023, 11:28 PM - Forum: World News
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If you haven't chosen AMAC over AARP yet, you may want to reconsider.
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"Today, AARP primarily functions as a marketing and advocacy tool for United Health, the largest health insurance company in the United States."
"AARP's revenue is not primarily derived from membership dues but from lucrative corporate royalty arrangements, notably their highly profitable deal with UnitedHealth, one of the nation's largest health insurance conglomerates."
"During the heated Obamacare debate, AARP threw its support behind it, despite the strong opposition of its members. It seems apparent that the allure of mandatory, subsidized health insurance proved to be a significant triumph for UnitedHealth."
"AARP strategically invests hundreds of millions of dollars in advertising and events that align with the Democratic Party's policy priorities, subtly influencing voting preferences."
These quotes underscore the fact that AARP may no longer be the organization it once was, prioritizing the well-being of seniors. Instead, it seems to be more focused on advancing the interests of corporate entities and aligning with partisan politics.
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Posted by: Charon - 11-14-2023, 06:23 PM - Forum: Political Discussion
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‘I Got The Good Stuff’: Long Island Dealer Admits Selling Fentanyl Causing 2 Overdose Deaths
A Long Island drug dealer could spend decades in federal prison for selling fentanyl that contributed to two overdose deaths.
<p>An Amityville drug dealer could spend decades in federal prison after admitting to selling fentanyl that contributed to two overdose deaths.</p>
An Amityville drug dealer could spend decades in federal prison after admitting to selling fentanyl that contributed to two overdose deaths.
Photo Credit: Pixabay/stevepb
Michael Mashburn
11/14/2023 5:30 a.m.
Charles Carter, age 34, of Amityville, appeared in US District Court in Central Islip on Monday, Nov. 13, where he pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute over 40 grams of fentanyl.
The potent, synthetic opioid drug is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Carter, who also goes by the name “Chase,” admitted to selling the drugs between August 2020 and February 2021.
Among his customers were a 23-year-old woman from Glen Cove and a 40-year-old man from Farmingdale who both died from drug-related overdoses, according to the US Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District.
Police later uncovered cell phone records showing that Carter had sold the Glen Cove woman fentanyl just two days before her death.
Evidence also showed that he messaged the Farmingdale resident in the weeks leading up to the man’s fatal overdose.
One message sent in January 2021 reads, “im (sic) around and I got the good stuff. Do u need to see me..??”
Autopsies showed traces of fentanyl in both victims' systems.
Carter was busted in January 2021 after he sold 43 grams of fentanyl to undercover detectives from the Glen Cove Police Department. If consumed, the doses would have been fatal, prosecutors said.
“Defendant Carter knowingly sold narcotics laced with fentanyl for months which contributed to the premature deaths of a man and woman,” said US Attorney Breon Peace. “With this plea, the defendant will receive a sentence that fits this crime.”
Carter is expected to get between five and 40 years in federal prison when he’s sentenced at a later date.
As part of his plea agreement, he also forfeited nearly $3,200 in seized drug proceeds along with a 2009 Jeep Patriot that he used to facilitate the transactions.
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Israel calls on Hamas to surrender Shifa hospital base as US strikes Iran proxies in Syria
The Israeli military is calling on Hamas to surrender its bases in and under Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Monday, despite Hamas denials that it has such a base. Fighting has centered around the hospital for days as patients suffer a lack of resources. The U.S., meanwhile, has launched airstrikes against Iranian proxy terrorist groups in Syria.
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The Israeli military has surrounded Shifa Hospital in Gaza, demanding that Hamas surrender the headquarters Israel says lies below the facility
The U.S. struck back against Iranian proxy terrorist groups based in Syria, killing at least six
There remain up to 239 Hamas hostages in Gaza, and 10 of them are believed to be Americans. The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry claims more than 11,000 Gazans have been killed in the fighting, though they do not distinguish between Palestinian civilians and Hamas terrorists.
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Israeli minister says Hamas has 'lost control of Gaza'
Israeli minister says Hamas has 'lost control' in Gaza
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant says Hamas has "lost control" of Gaza amid the Israeli military's assault on the terrorist organization.
Gallant made the statment in a Monday broadcast to Israeli television. Israel is in the 38th day of its war against Hamas, and its ground assault in Gaza has lasted for roughly two weeks. While Gallant says Hamas' control over the region has been removed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will not stop until the terrorist organization is "destroyed."
“Hamas has lost control of Gaza. Terrorists are fleeing southward. Civilians are looting Hamas bases,” he said. “They don’t have faith in the government anymore."
"There is no power that Hamas has capable of stopping the IDF. The IDF is advancing to every point," he added.
Israel has yet to release images of the looting Gallant referenced, however, as it has done for many incidents since Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre.
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John Kirby admits Biden administration has to 'do more' to combat antisemitism in US
John Kirby admits Biden administration has to 'do more' to combat antisemitism in US
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby admitted that President Biden's administration has to "do more" to combat rising antisemitism in the U.S.
Kirby made the statement during a Monday appearance on Fox News, acknowledging the surge in antisemitism in the wake of Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre in Israel. Kirby says Biden has been very clear and very consistent about the rise of "hate, and particularly antisemitism" in the U.S.
"We've got to do better. We've got to be better," Kirby said, adding that he had been horrified at stories of what Jewish students are going through at college campuses in the U.S. "I don't disagree that we've got to do more. We know that, and the president is focused on that very, very seriously."
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Hamas still able to fire rockets from Israeli-controlled areas in Gaza, IDF says
Hamas still able to fire rockets from Israeli-controlled areas in Gaza, IDF says
Hamas terrorists are still able to fire rockets into Israel from IDF-held territory in Gaza, Fox News Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst said Monday.
Yingst says Hamas is using timers to launch rockets belatedly from land they have lost to encroaching Israeli forces. Hamas also has a labyrinth of hundreds of miles of tunnels underground in Gaza.
"Hamas and the Islamic Jihad have rockets that are set on times. They have rockets that they set in the past and they can remotely activate them and they can fire on population centers. So even if there are not militants in the area, they are able to fire on Israel," Yingst said.
Israel's war on Hamas is nearing the end of its 38th day. Israeli leaders have vowed to destroy Hamas before the end of the conflict, rejecting calls for a cease-fire.
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Rabbi Moshe Hauer: Israel 'won't turn the other cheek when faced with evil'
Orthodox Union executive vice president Rabbi Moshe Hauer appeared on Fox News ahead of his congressional testimony on antisemitism and the 'March for Israel' rally in Washington, D.C. on Monday.
Hauer said that the voice of the Jewish people and the voice of Israel is a "voice of peace." He argued that everything Israel is doing in Gaza is "done to save."
Moshe rejected the claim that Israel must "turn the other cheek" when faced with violence from Hamas, however.
"We won't turn the other cheek when faced with evil," he said. "If we turn the other cheek then they are here, and then they will destroy everywhere in the world. It is not a value of ours to do that against an active threat."
"Against a personal insult, we can turn the other cheek. Against something which will then encroach, threaten and do what they did on October 7--unspeakable acts of brutality--we have to stand and we have to stand firm and we have to stand strong, and we have no hesitation about that as people of faith," he added.
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Jerusalem deputy mayor disputes ‘misinformation’ around fights at Gaza hospitals
Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum joined Fox News on Monday to discuss Israel's ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza, contesting recent media framing around firefights near Gaza hospitals.
Hamas has accused the Israeli military of attacking civilians in and around the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, though Israel has said it is only targeting the Hamas headquarters it says is located beneath the facility.
While Hamas denies using Shifa and other hospitals as shields, the Israeli Defense Forces released footage of a Hamas terrorist wielding an RPG at the entrance of the Al-Quds hospital in northern Gaza on Monday.
The IDF says the terrorist fired the RPG at nearby Israeli forces.
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Internal State Department memo accused Biden of 'misinformation' on Israel-Hamas war
Internal State Department memo accused Biden of 'misinformation' on Israel-Hamas war
Internal State Department memo accused Biden of 'misinformation' on Israel-Hamas war
An internal State Department dissent memo that was reportedly leaked to the press accused President Biden of "spreading misinformation" about the Israel-Hamas war and claimed Israel is committing "war crimes."
Following an earlier Politico report on the topic, Axios reported that it obtained a "scathing" memo that was signed by 100 State Department and USAID employees that suggested Biden’s continued support of Israel has made him "complicit in genocide" as the Jewish state continues to retaliate after Hamas killed at least 1,400 civilians during the Oct. 7 terror attack.
"Some of the memo's language echoes that of progressive activists in the U.S., whose anger and protests over Biden's handling of the war have rippled through the Democratic Party — and created a new challenge for the president's 2024 campaign," Axios reported.
The memo does not offer specific examples of what "misinformation" Biden has helped spread, according to the report.
Hamas kidnapped hundreds of civilians, including children and the elderly, during the Oct. 7 terror attack. The memo recommended that the U.S. government advocate for the release of the hostages, but lumped in "thousands" of Palestinians it claimed are being held in Israel.
Fox News' Brian Flood contributed to this report
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MIT criticized for not expelling anti-Israel protesters over 'visa issues'
MIT criticized for not expelling anti-Israel protesters over 'visa issues'
MIT criticized for not expelling anti-Israel protesters over 'visa issues'
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was blasted this week after its administrators acknowledged the university stopped short of expelling anti-Israel student protesters because of "visa issues."
MIT President Sally Kornbluth said in a statement Nov. 9 that the school would merely suspend students who participated in the disruptive protest from non-academic campus activities to avoid "collateral consequences for the students, such as visa issues." One day earlier, the Coalition Against Apartheid, a pro-Palestinian student group, conducted a large protest that Kornbluth confirmed defied MIT policies governing student actions.
"In late morning, the face-to-face confrontation between the protesters and counterprotesters intensified," Kornbluth said. "We had serious concerns that it could lead to violence. To prevent further escalation and protect the physical safety of everyone present – including both student protesters and passers-by in our busiest lobby — the administration felt it was essential to take action."
"The students will remain enrolled at MIT and will be able to attend academic classes and labs," she continued, noting some of the protesters' "visa issues." "We will refer this interim action to the Ad Hoc Complaint Response Team, which includes the chair of the Committee on Discipline, for final adjudication."
Fox News' Thomas Catenacci contributed to this report
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IDF death toll rises to 42 amid heavy fighting around hospitals in Gaza
Fox News Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst delivered an update on the Israel-Hamas war from near Gaza's northern border on Monday.
Yingst said the death toll for Israeli Defense Forces operating in Gaza has risen to 42 amid the intense fighting. The IDF has surrounded the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, the region's largest population center. The IDF says Hamas has placed its headquarters underneath the facility, a claim Hamas denies.
Yingst also drew attention to an IDF-supplied video showing a Hamas terrorist wielding an RPG outside the Al-Quds hospital, another major medical facility in Gaza.
Israel had long accused Hamas of using civilian infrastructure and human shields as cover for their terrorist operations.
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NY Dem calls on 'Ceasefire Now camp' to demand people stop tearing down Israeli hostage posters
NY Dem calls on 'Ceasefire Now camp' to demand people stop tearing down Israeli hostage posters
NY Dem calls on 'Ceasefire Now camp' to demand people stop tearing down Israeli hostage posters
A senior Jewish New York Democrat lawmaker called on the leaders of the "Ceasefire Now camp" to publicly "urge" people to stop tearing down posters of Israeli hostages.
Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., posted on X Monday calling for the prominent "Ceasefire Now" members to tell people to stop tearing down the posters of Israelis kidnapped by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Nadler wrote the posters being torn down is causing "hostilities" and "altercations" and that releasing the hostages is the fastest way toward a ceasefire.
"An earnest request to well-intended people, particularly those with large followings, in the Ceasefire Now camp: urge people publicly to stop tearing down hostage posters," Nadler wrote.
"It’s creating hostilities/altercations that aren’t good for anyone," he continued. "And of course, hostage release is the quickest route to ceasefire."
Fox News' Houston Keene contributed to this report
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US forces attacked 4 more times since airstrikes that killed 6 Iranian fighters
US forces attacked 4 more times since airstrikes that killed 6 Iranian fighters
Total attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria jumps to 52 as US strikes Iran proxies
U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria have weathered 52 attacks since Oct. 17 from Iran-backed terrorist groups in the region, the Pentagon announced Monday.
Ten of the attacks have hit the bases since the U.S. launched airstrikes agaisnt a terrorist weapons depot in Syria on Nov. 8. No deaths have been reported in any of the 52 attacks, though there have been multiple minor injuries.
The most recent attacks came after the U.S. killed at least six Iran-backed fighters with airstrikes in Syria this weekend. It is the first time since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas conflict that the U.S. has taken action against Iran-backed personell.
The U.S. has deployed extensive military assets to the region, including carrier strike groups to the eastern Mediterranean and near Iran in an attempt to prevent the conflict from widening.
Fox News' Liz Friden contributed to this report
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US strikes on Iran proxies trigger fear of 'major escalation' in Israel's war with Hamas
American airstrikes against Iran-backed fighters in Syria have triggered fears that there could soon be a major escalation in Israel's war against Hamas.
"America Reports" spoke with Fox News correspondent Alex Hogan in Northern Israel. Hogan, standing next to Israeli mobile artillery platforms, said the IDF has ramped up its retaliatory strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.
Hezbollah, another Iran-backed terrorist group, has launched rockets and anti-tank missiles into Israel for weeks.
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US reveals names, photos of 5 special operators killed in Mediterranean aircraft 'mishap'
US reveals names, photos of 5 special operators killed in Mediterranean aircraft 'mishap'
US reveals names, photos of 5 special operators killed in Mediterranean aircraft 'mishap'
The U.S. military released the names and photos of the five special operators who were killed in an aircraft "mishap" this weekend.
The U.S. says the five men were U.S. Army Special Operations aviation soldiers conducting a routine refueling flight at the time of the crash. The Pentagon identified the deceased as the following:
-Chief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen R. Dwyer, 38, of Clarksville, Tennessee
-Chief Warrant Officer 2 Shane M. Barnes, 34, of Sacramento, California
-Staff Sgt. Tanner W. Grone, 26, of Gorham, New Hampshire
-Sgt. Andrew P. Southard, 27, of Apache Junction, Arizona
-Sgt. Cade M. Wolfe, 24, of Mankato, Minnesota
The U.S. says the five men were killed during a refueling flight and that there was no indication of any hostile action.
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IDF releases footage of Hamas terrorist firing RPG from entrance to Gaza hospital
IDF releases footage of Hamas terrorist firing RPG from entrance to Gaza hospital
IDF releases footage of Hamas terrorist firing RPG from entrance to Gaza hospital
Israeli Defense Forces released footage and images they say show a Hamas terrorist firing an RPG at Israeli forces from the entrance of a Gaza hospital on Sunday.
IDF Spokesman Daniel Hagari said the firing led to a brief battle between Israeli forces and Hamas, resulting in IDF soldiers killing 21 targets. Hagari said the RPG launch came from a pair of Hamas terrorists who had hidden among civilains near the Al-Quds hospital.
"During an operation by the 188th TDF, an RPG and an anti-tank missile were fired at an IDF force from the entrance to the Al-Quds hospital in Gaza city," Hagari wrote on Monday. "The shooting was carried out by a terrorist squad that had assimilated into a group of civilians at the entrance to the hospital. The forces were able to identify among the civilians a terrorist squad with two launchers."
"The force fired at the terrorists. During the exchange of fire, civilians were seen leaving the hospital building, and other terrorists who came out of buildings in the area assimilated into them, and joined the attempted attack," the statement continued. "The forces of the brigade combat team, which included armor, engineering, infantry forces and with the assistance of the air force, responded with live fire and shell fire toward teh sources of the [attack]. In the incident, about 21 terrorists were killed. There were no casualties to our forces."
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OPINION: Iran doubles down on terror but it holds a losing hand
OPINION: Iran doubles down on terror but it holds a losing hand
OPINION: Iran doubles down on terror but it holds a losing hand
Opinion article by Rebecca Grant
You know the mullahs in Iran are gloating over anti-Israel protests, and harassment attacks by the Axis of Resistance. Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds force commander Esmail Ghaani has been shuttling to Lebanon and other locations, holding meetings, hoping to whip up more mayhem.
And Iran would love to elbow the U.S. military out of the Middle East and fulfill its dreams of regional hegemony.
Don’t count on it. Iran holds a losing hand.
Iran’s military options are limited, the economy is a shambles, and behind the scenes, a lot of governments in the region want to contain Iran. The aftermath of the Gaza crisis will leave Iran worse off than before. Here’s why.
Iran has stuffed the region with enough missiles to overtax Israel’s Iron Dome missile defenses.
As national security adviser Jake Sullivan said, Iran plays the "sustained, deep and dark role in providing all of this support and capabilities to Hamas." The IRGC arms, funds and trains militias in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, the West Bank and of course Gaza.
Yet for all the time and money spent, Iran’s proxies can’t overmatch U.S. deterrent forces...
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Macron tries to make amends with Israel after calling for cease-fire, alleging civilian attacks
Macron tries to make amends with Israel after calling for cease-fire, alleging civilian attacks
Macron tries to make amends with Israel after calling for cease-fire, alleging civilian attacks
French President Emmanuel Macron attempted to make amends with the Israeli government on Sunday in a phone call with Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
Macron reportedly told Herzog that he had not meant to accuse Israel of intentionally bombing children and elderly people in his Friday statement calling for a cease-fire. Macron was the first major Western leader to call for Israel to halt its war against Hamas, but he once again told Herzog he believes Israel has a right to defend itself.
Macron "does not and did not intend to accuse Israel of intentionally harming innocent civilians in the campaign against the terrorist organization Hamas," Herzog's office wrote in a statement.
“President Macron also emphasized that he unequivocally supports Israel’s right and duty to self-defense, and expressed his support for Israel’s war against Hamas,” the statement added.
“President Macron explained that his comments during the interview were made in reference to the humanitarian situation, which remained an important issue for him and many countries,” the statement continued. “President Macron reiterated to President Herzog his commitment to demanding the immediate release of the hostages, and noted he was working to help on this important issue.”
Macron had previously stated that Israel's war against Hamas should be waged "without mercy, but not without rules."
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Pennsylvania business targeted after displaying pro-Israel sign: 'Deeply concerning'
Pennsylvania business owner Michael Jacobs says his business was attacked after he displayed a pro-Israel outside his office last week, with a vandal attempting to break one of the office's glass windows and attacking the company truck.
Jacobs, the owner of Marvista Design, told "Fox & Friends First" that he had displayed the pro-Israel sign for roughly a week before the attack occurred. Surveillance footage showed an individual dressed in black approach the building an immediately begin swinging a small wrench against the window.
"For some reason, a miracle, the glass didn't break, which was amazing" Jacobs said. "If you look at this video--the anger in those swings--it's deeply concerning for not only myself but for the Jewish community."
After failing to break the office window, the assailant allegedly turned to the company truck, leaving the wrench embedded in a side window.
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CNN cuts photojournalist pictured embracing Hamas leader in Gaza
CNN announced it has cut ties with Gaza-based journalist Hassan Eslaiah over his alleged ties to Hamas.
Eslaiah has been pictured receiving a kiss and an embrace from a Hamas leader in the region. Some reports have also raised questions about how Eslaiah was able to be on the scene of Hamas Oct. 7 massacre in Israel so quickly, though CNN has vehemently denied any foreknowledge of the attack and clarified he was not under their employment at the time.
“We had no prior knowledge of the Oct. 7 attacks. Hassan Eslaiah, a freelance journalist who has worked with a number of international and Israeli outlets, was not working for the network on Oct. 7. As of today, we have severed all ties with him,” CNN said in a statement.
"While we have not at this time found reason to doubt the journalistic accuracy of the work he has done for us, we have decided to suspend all ties with him," it said in a follow-up.
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Israel-Hamas war: At least 6 Iranian proxy fighters killed by U.S. forces
Israel-Hamas war: At least 6 Iranian proxy fighters killed by U.S. forces
Israel-Hamas war: At least 6 Iranian proxy fighters killed by U.S. forces
A senior U.S. defense official told Fox News that at least 6 Iranian proxy fighters were killed in the U.S.'s attacks on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stations in the Middle East Sunday.
The IRGC stations are located in the Syrian cities of Abu Kamal and Mayadin, according to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin. The buildings were reportedly a safe house and training facility, but a senior defense source told Fox that the safe house functioned as a headquarters.
An official told Fox that secondary explosions were seen at one of the locations, suggesting that there was a large amount of flammable ammo or weapons in the facility.
Referencing the two previous recent strikes that the U.S. military had against Iran-backed targets, the U.S. official said that, “This one will hurt them a lot more than the past strikes."
Austin said that the airstrikes were "in response to continued attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria."
"The President has no higher priority than the safety of U.S. personnel, and he directed today’s action to make clear that the United States will defend itself, its personnel, and its interests," Austin's statement read.
Fox News Digital's Jennifer Griffin and Andrea Vacchiano contributed to this report.
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Israel Ministry of Defense reveals first operational 'Arrow' interception during Swords of Iron war
The Israel Ministry of Defense has published footage showing the operational launch of an "Arrow" interceptor during the "Swords of Iron" war.
"The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) in the Ministry of Defense's Directorate of Defense R&D (DDR&D) captured the operational launch in southern Israel," a Ministry of Defense Spokesperson said. "The Israeli Air Force's Air and Missile Defense Array executed the launch and intercepted the designated target."
Fox News' Landon Minon contributed to this report
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Israeli soldiers eliminate 7 terrorists within 10 minutes: IDF
Israeli soldiers eliminate 7 terrorists within 10 minutes: IDF
Israeli soldiers eliminate 7 terrorists within 10 minutes: IDF
The Israeli Defense Forces announced that soldiers from the Golani Brigade eliminated seven terrorists within ten minutes.
The IDF said this was possible because of its access to "quick and efficient intelligence in the field."
"Another example of quick coordination that took place in the Defense and Operations Center, is the elimination of the commander of the Naser Radwan Company, the terrorist Ahmed Siam," the IDF said in a press release.
"On Friday morning (November 10th, 2023), ADAN Givati received an indication of the unusual presence of Ahmed Siam at a school in northern Gaza," the IDF continued. "It was revealed that Ahmed Siam held about a thousand residents of the Gaza Strip as hostages and human shields in the Rantisi hospital and prevented them from evacuating to the south of the Gaza Strip. Cross-checking several layers of research with all the sources confirmed his presence above the ground. At noon, he was targeted by an Air Force aircraft using close coordination."
Fox News' Landon Mion contributed to this report
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THE YELLOW WALLPAPER
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T isis very seldom that mere ordinary
people like John and myself secure
ancestral halls for the summer.
A colonial mansion, a hereditary
estate, I would say a haunted house,
and reach the height of romantic
felicity,
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but that would be asking
too much of fate !
Still I will proudly declare that there
is something queer about it.
Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long untenanted ?
John laughs at me, of course, but
one expects that in marriage.
John is practical in the extreme.
He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he
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scoffs openly at any talk of things not
to be felt and seen and put down in
figures.
John is a physician, and perhaps —
(I would not say it to a living soul, of
course, but this is dead paper and a
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great relief to my mind) perhaps
that is one reason I do not get well
faster.
You see, he does not believe I am
sick !
And what can one do?
If a physician of high standing, and
one's own husband, assures friends and
relatives that there is really nothing
the matter with one but temporary
nervous depression, a slight hysterical tendency, what is one to do?
My brother is also a physician, and
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also of high standing, and he says the
same thing.
So I take phosphates or phosphites,
whichever it is,
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and tonics , and
journeys, and air, and exercise, and
am absolutely forbidden to " work "
until I am well again.
Personally I disagree with their
ideas.
Personally I believe that congenial
work, with excitement and change,
would do me good.
But what is one to do ?
I did write for a while in spite of
them; but it does exhaust me a good
deal having to be so sly about it,
or else meet with heavy opposition .
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I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more
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society and stimulus but John says
the very worst thing I can do is to
think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad.
So I will let it alone and talk about
the house.
The most beautiful place ! It is
quite alone, standing well back from
the road, quite three miles from the
village. It makes me think of English
places that you read about, for there
are hedges and walls and gates that
lock, and lots of separate little houses
for the gardeners and people.
There is a delicious garden ! I
never saw such a garden-large and
shady, full of box-bordered paths, and
lined with long grape-covered arbors
with seats under them.
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There were greenhouses, too , but
they are all broken now.
There was some legal trouble, I
believe, something about the heirs
and co-heirs ; anyhow, the place has
been empty for years.
That spoils my ghostliness, I am
afraid; but I don't care — there is
something strange about the house
I can feel it.
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moon- I even said so to John one
light evening, but he said what I felt
was a draught, and shut the window.
I get unreasonably angry with John
sometimes. I'm sure I never used to
be so sensitive. I think it is due to
this nervous condition.
But John says if I feel so I shall
neglect proper self-control ; so I take
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pains to control myself, before him,
at least, and that makes me very tired.
I don't like our room a bit. I
wanted one downstairs that opened
on the piazza and had roses all over
the window, and such pretty, old-fashioned chintz hangings ! but John would
not hear of it.
He said there was only one window
and not room for two beds, and no near
room for him if he took another.
He is very careful and loving, and
hardly lets me stir without special
direction.
I have a schedule prescription for
each hour in the day ; he takes all care
from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more.
He said we came here solely on my
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account, that I was to have perfect rest
and all the air I could get. " Your
exercise depends on your strength, my
dear," said he, " and your food somewhat on your appetite ; but air you can
absorb all the time." So we took the
nursery, at the top of the house.
It is a big, airy room, the whole
floor nearly, with windows that look
all ways, and air and sunshine galore.
It was nursery first and then playground and gymnasium, I should
judge ; for the windows are barred for
little children, and there are rings and
things in the walls.
The paint and paper look as if a
boys' school had used it. It is stripped
off- the paper in great patches all
around the head of my bed, about as far
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as I can reach, and in a great place on
the other side of the room low down.
I never saw a worse paper in my life.
One of those sprawling flamboyant
patterns committing every artistic sin.
It is dull enough to confuse the eye
in following, pronounced enough to
constantly irritate, and provoke study,
and when you follow the lame, uncertain curves for a little distance they
suddenly commit suicide plunge off
at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard-of contradictions.
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The color is repellant, almost revolting; a smouldering, unclean yellow,
strangely faded by the slow-turning
sunlight.
It is a dull yet lurid orange in some
places, a sickly sulphur tint in others.
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No wonder the children hated it ! I
should hate it myself if I had to
live in this room long.
There comes John, and I must put
this away, he hates to have me
write a word.
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WE have been here two weeks, and
I haven't felt like writing before, since
that first day.
I am sitting by the window now, up
in this atrocious nursery, and there is
nothing to hinder my writing as much
as I please, save lack of strength.
John is away all day, and even some
nights when his cases are serious.
I am glad my case is not serious !
But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing.
John does not know how much I
really suffer. He knows there is no
reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.
Of course It it is only nervousness.
does weigh on me so not to do my
duty in any way!
I meant to be such a help to John,
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to
such a real rest and comfort, and here
I am a comparative burden already!
Nobody would believe what an effort
it is to do what little I am able
dress and entertain, and order things.
It is fortunate Mary is so good
with the baby. Such a dear baby!
And yet I cannot be with him, it
makes me so nervous.
I suppose John never was nervous
in his life. He laughs at me so about
this wall paper!
At first he meant to repaper the
room, but afterwards he said that I
was letting it get the better of me,
and that nothing was worse for a
nervous patient than to give way to
such fancies.
He said that after the wall paper
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was changed it would be the heavy
bedstead, and then the barred windows, and then that gate at the head
of the stairs, and so on.
" You know the place is doing you
good," he said, " and really, dear, I
don't care to renovate the house just
for a three months' rental."
" Then do let us go downstairs," I
said, " there are such pretty rooms
there. "
Then he took me in his arms and
called me a blessed little goose, and
said he would go down cellar if I
wished, and have it whitewashed into
the bargain.
But he is right enough about the
beds and windows and things.
It is as airy and comfortable a room
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as any one need wish, and, of course,
I would not be so silly as to make him
uncomfortable just for a whim.
I'm really getting quite fond of the
big room, all but that horrid paper.
Out of one window I can see the
garden, those mysterious deep-shaded
arbors, the riotous old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees.
Out of another I get a lovely view
of the bay and a little private wharf
belonging to the estate. There is a
beautiful shaded lane that runs down
there from the house. I always fancy
I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has
cautioned me not to give way to fancy
in the least. He says that with my
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making a nervous weakness like mine
is sure to lead to all manner of excited
fancies, and that I ought to use my
will and good sense to check the tendency. So I try.
I think sometimes that if I were
only well enough to write a little it
would relieve the press of ideas and
rest me.
But I find I get pretty tired when I
try.
It is so discouraging not to have any
advice and companionship about my
work. When I get really well John
says we will ask Cousin Henry and
Julia down for a long visit ; but he
says he would as soon put fire- works
in my pillow-case as to let me have
those stimulating people about now.
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I wish I could get well faster.
But I must not think about that.
This paper looks to me as if it knew
what a vicious influence it had!
There is a recurrent spot where the
pattern lolls like a broken neck and
two bulbous eyes stare at you upsidedown.
I got positively angry with the impertinence of it and the everlastingness. Up and down and sideways they
crawl, and those absurd, unblinking
eyes are everywhere. There is one
place where two breadths didn't match,
and the eyes go all up and down the
line, one a little higher than the other.
I never saw so much expression in
an inanimate thing before, and we all
know how much expression they have!
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I used to lie awake as a child and get
more entertainment and terror out of
blank walls and plain furniture than
most children could find in a toystore.
I remember what a kindly wink the
knobs of our big old bureau used to
have, and there was one chair that
always seemed like a strong friend.
I used to feel that if any of the other
things looked too fierce I could always
hop into that chair and be safe.
The furniture in this room is no
worse than inharmonious, however, for
we had to bring it all from downstairs.
I suppose when this was used as a playroom they had to take the nursery things
out, and no wonder ! I never saw such
ravages as the children have made here.
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The wall paper, as I said before, is
torn off in spots, and it sticketh closer
than a brother-they must have had
perseverance as well as hatred.
Then the floor is scratched and
gouged and splintered, the plaster itself is dug out here and there, and this
great heavy bed, which is all we found
in the room, looks as if it had been
through the wars.
But I don't mind it a bit -only the
paper.
There comes John's sister. Such a
dear girl as she is, and so careful of
me! I must not let her find me
writing.
She is a perfect, an enthusiastic
housekeeper, and hopes for no better profession. I verily believe she
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thinks it is the writing which made me
sick !
But I can write when she is out,
and see her a long way off from these
windows.
There is one that commands the
road, a lovely, shaded, winding road,
and one that just looks off over the
country. A lovely country, too, full
of great elms and velvet meadows.
This wall paper has a kind of subpattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only
see it in certain lights, and not clearly
then.
But in the places where it isn't
faded, and where the sun is just so,
I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to sulk
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about behind that silly and conspicuous front design.
There's sister on the stairs!
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WELL, the Fourth of July is over !
The people are all gone and I am
tired out. John thought it might do
me good to see a little company, so
we just had mother and Nellie and
the children down for a week.
Of course I didn't do a thing.
Jennie sees to everything now.
But it tired me all the same.
John says if I don't pick up faster
he shall send me to Weir Mitchell
in the fall.
But I don't want to go there at all.
I had a friend who was in his hands
once, and she says he is just like John.
and my brother, only more so !
Besides, it is such an undertaking
to go so far.
I don't feel as if it was worth
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while to turn my hand over for anything, and I'm getting dreadfully fretful
and querulous.
I cry at nothing, and cry most of
the time.
Of course I don't when John is
here, or anybody else, but when I
am alone.
And I am alone a good deal just now.
John is kept in town very often by
serious cases, and Jennie is good and
lets me alone when I want her to .
So I walk a little in the garden or
down that lovely lane, sit on the
porch under the roses, and lie down
up here a good deal.
I'm getting really fond of the room
in spite of the wall paper. Perhaps
because of the wall paper.
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It dwells in my mind so !
I lie here on this great immovable
bed it is nailed down, I believe —
and follow that pattern about by the
hour. It is as good as gymnastics, I
assure you. I start, we'll say, at the
bottom, down in the corner over there
where it has not been touched, and I
determine for the thousandth time that
I will follow that pointless pattern to
some sort of a conclusion.
I know a little of the principles of
design, and I know this thing was not
arranged on any laws of radiation, or
alternation, or repetition, or symmetry,
or anything else that I ever heard of.
It is repeated, of course, by the
breadths, but not otherwise .
Looked at in one way, each breadth
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stands alone, the bloated curves and
flourishes ― a kind of " debased Romanesque " with delirium tremensgo waddling up and down in isolated
columns of fatuity.
But, on the other hand, they connect diagonally, and the sprawling
outlines run off in great slanting waves
of optic horror, like a lot of wallowing seaweeds in full chase.
The whole thing goes horizontally,
too, at least it seems so, and I exhaust
myself in trying to distinguish the
order of its going in that direction.
They have used a horizontal breadth
for a frieze, and that adds wonderfully
to the confusion.
There is one end of the room where
it is almost intact, and there, when
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the cross-lights fade and the low sun
shines directly upon it, I can almost
fancy radiation, after all, -the interminable grotesques seem to form around
a common centre and rush off in headlong plunges of equal distraction.
It makes me tired to follow it. I
will take a nap, I guess.
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I DON'T know why I should write
this.
I don't want to.
I don't feel able.
And I know John would think it
absurd. But I must say what I feel
and think in some way it is such a
relief!
But the effort is getting to be greater
than the relief.
Half the time now I am awfully lazy,
and lie down ever so much.
John says I mustn't lose my strength,
and has me take cod-liver oil and lots
of tonics and things, to say nothing of
ale and wine and rare meat.
Dear John ! He loves me very
dearly, and hates to have me sick. I
tried to have a real earnest reasonable
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talk with him the other day, and tell
him how I wished he would let me go
and make a visit to Cousin Henry and
Julia.
But he said I wasn't able to go, nor
able to stand it after I got there ; and I
did not make out a very good case for
myself, for I was crying before I had
finished.
It is getting to be a great effort for
me to think straight. Just this nervous
weakness, I suppose.
And dear John gathered me up in
his arms, and just carried me upstairs
and laid me on the bed, and sat by
me and read to me till he tired my
head.
He said I was his darling and his
comfort and all he had, and that I must
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take care of myself for his sake, and
keep well.
He says no one but myself can help
me out of it, that I must use my will
and self-control and not let my silly
fancies run away with me.
There's one comfort, the baby is
well and happy, and does not have to
occupy this nursery with the horrid
wall paper.
If we had not used it that blessed
child would have! What a fortunate
escape ! Why, I wouldn't have a
child of mine, an impressionable little
thing, live in such a room for worlds.
I never thought of it before, but it is
lucky that John kept me here, after all.
I can stand it so much easier than a
baby, you see.
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-
Of course I never mention it to them
any more, I am too wise, but I
keep watch of it all the same.
There are things in that paper that
nobody knows but me, or ever will.
Behind that outside pattern the dim
shapes get clearer every day.
It is always the same shape, only
very numerous.
And it is like a woman stooping
down and creeping about behind that
pattern. I don't like it a bit. I wonder I begin to think I wish John
would take me away from here !
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It is so hard to talk with John about
my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.
But I tried it last night.
It was moonlight. The moon shines
in all around, just as the sun does.
I hate to see it sometimes, it creeps
so slowly, and always comes in by one
window or another.
John was asleep and I hated to
waken him, so I kept still and watched
the moonlight on that undulating wall
paper till I felt creepy.
The faint figure behind seemed to
shake the pattern, just as if she wanted
to get out.
I got up softly and went to feel
and see if the paper did move, and
when I came back John was awake.
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"What is it, little girl ? " he said.
" Don't go walking about like thatyou'll get cold."
I thought it was a good time to
talk, so I told him that I really was
not gaining here, and that I wished
he would take me away.
"Why, darling ! " said he, " our lease
will be up in three weeks, and I can't
see how to leave before.
" The repairs are not done at home,
and I cannot possibly leave town just
now. Of course if you were in any
danger I could and would, but you
really are better, dear, whether you
can see it or not. I am a doctor,
dear, and I know. You are gaining
flesh and color, your appetite is better.
I feel really much easier about you.'
99
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୧୧
" I don't weigh a bit more," said I,
nor as much ; and my appetite may
be better in the evening, when you
are here, but it is worse in the morning, when you are away."
"Bless her little heart ! " said he
with a big hug; " she shall be as sick as
she pleases. But now let's improve
the shining hours by going to sleep,
and talk about it in the morning."
" And you won't go away? " I asked
gloomily.
"Why, how can I, dear ? It is only
three weeks more and then we will
take a nice little trip of a few days
while Jennie is getting the house
ready. Really, dear, you are better ! "
"Better in body, perhaps " -I began, and stopped short, for he sat up
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straight and looked at me with such
a stern, reproachful look that I could
not say another word.
"My darling," said he, " I beg of
you, for my sake and for our child's
sake, as well as for your own, that
you will never for one
inst nt le tha idea
enter y ur ind!
There is nothing so dangerous, so fascinating, to a
temperament like yours. It is a false
and foolish fancy. Can you not trust
me as a physician when I tell you so ? "
So of course I said no more on that
score, and we went to sleep before
long. He thought I was asleep first,
but I wasn't, -I lay there for hours.
trying to decide whether that front
pattern and the back pattern really
did move together or separately.
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ON a pattern like this, by daylight,
there is a lack of sequence, a defiance
of law, that is a constant irritant to a
normal mind.
The color is hideous enough, and
unreliable enough, and infuriating
enough, but the pattern is torturing.
You think you have mastered it,
but just as you get well under way in
following, it turns a back somersault,
and there you are. It slaps you in the
face, knocks you down, and tramples
upon you. It is like a bad dream.
The outside pattern is a florid arabesque, reminding one of a fungus. If
you can imagine a toadstool in joints, an
interminable string of toadstools , budding and sprouting in endless convolutions, why, that is something like it.
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That is, sometimes !
There is one marked peculiarity
about this paper, a thing nobody seems
to notice but myself, and that is that
it changes as the light changes.
When the sun shoots in through the
east window - I always watch for that
first long, straight ray - it changes so
quickly that I never can quite believe it.
That is why I watch it always.
―
By moonlight the moon shines in
all night when there is a moon — I
wouldn't know it was the same paper.
At night in any kind of light, in
twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and
worst of all by moonlight, it becomes.
bars! The outside pattern, I mean,
and the woman behind it is as plain
as can be.
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I didn't realize for a long time what
the thing was that showed behind, —
that dim sub-pattern, but now I am
quite sure it is a woman.
By daylight she is subdued, quiet. I
fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so
still. It is so puzzling. It keeps me
quiet by the hour.
I lie down ever so much now. John
says it is good for me, and to sleep all
I can.
Indeed, he started the habit by making
me lie downfor an hour after each meal.
It is a very bad habit, I am convinced,
for, you see, I don't sleep.
And that cultivates deceit, for I don't
tell them I'm awake, - oh, no !
The fact is, I am getting a little afraid
ofJohn.
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He seems very queer sometimes,
and even Jennie has an inexplicable
look.
It strikes me occasionally, just as a
scientific hypothesis, that perhaps it is
the paper!
I have watched John when he did
not know I was looking, and come into
the room suddenly on the most innocent excuses, and I've caught him
several times looking at the paper!
And Jennie too. I caught Jennie with
her hand on it once.
She didn't know I was in the room,
and when I asked her in a quiet, a very
quiet voice, with the most restrained
manner possible, what she was doing
with the paper she turned around as
if she had been caught stealing, and
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looked quite angry -asked me why I
should frighten her so!
Then she said that the paper stained
everything it touched, that she had
found yellow smooches on all all my
clothes and John's, and she wished we
would be more careful !
Did not that sound innocent ? But I
know she was studying that pattern, and
I am determined that nobody shall find
it out but myself!
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LIFE is very much more exciting now
than it used to be. You see I have
something more to expect, to look forward to, to watch. I really do eat
better, and am more quiet than I was.
John is so pleased to see me improve !
He laughed a little the other day, and
said I seemed to be flourishing in spite
of my wall paper.
I turned it off with a laugh. I had
no intention of telling him it was because of the wall paper- he would
make fun of me. He might even want
to take me away.
I don't want to leave now until I
have found it out. There is a week
more, and I think that will be enough.
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I'm feeling ever so much better! I
don't sleep much at night, for it is so
interesting to watch developments ; but
I sleep a good deal in the daytime.
In the daytime it is tiresome and perplexing.
There are always new shoots on the
fungus, and new shades of yellow all
over it. I cannot keep count of them,
though I have tried conscientiously.
It is the strangest yellow, that wall
paper ! It makes me think of all the
yellow things I ever saw ·not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul,
bad yellow things.
But there is something else about
that paper.-the smell! I noticed it
the moment we came into the room,
but with so much air and sun it was
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not bad. Now we have had a week of
fog and rain, and whether the windows
are open or not the smell is here.
It creeps all over the house.
I find it hovering in the dining-room ,
skulking in the parlor, hiding in the
hall, lying in wait for me on
stairs.
It gets into my hair.
on the
Even when I go to ride, if I turn
my head suddenly and surprise itthere is that smell!
Such a peculiar odor, too ! I have
spent hours in trying to analyze it, to
find what it smelled like .
It is not bad - at first, and very
gentle, but quite the subtlest, most enduring odor I ever met.
In this damp weather it is awful. I
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wake up in the night and find it hanging over me.
It used to disturb me at first. I
thought seriously of burning the house
-to reach the smell.
But now I am used to it. The only
thing I can think of that it is like is the
color of the paper —a yellow smell !
There is a very funny mark on this
wall, low down, near the mopboard. A
streak that runs around the room. It
goes behind every piece of furniture,
except the bed, a long, straight, even
smooch, as if it had been rubbed over
and over.
I wonder how it was done and who
did it, and what they did it for.
Round
and round and round - round and
round and round- it makes me dizzy!
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I REALLY have discovered something
at last.
Through watching so much at night,
when it changes so, I have finally found
out.
The front pattern does move — and
no wonder ! The woman behind shakes
it !
Sometimes I think there are a great
many women behind, and sometimes
only one, and she crawls around fast,
and her crawling shakes it all over.
Then in the very bright spots she
keeps still, and in the very shady spots
she just takes hold of the bars and
shakes them hard.
And she is all the time trying to
climb through. But nobody could
climb through that pattern—it strangles
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so ; I think that is why it has so many
heads.
They get through, and then the pattern strangles them off and turns them
upside- down, and makes their eyes
white !
Ifthose heads were covered or taken
off it would not be half so bad.
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I THINK that woman gets out in the
daytime !
And I'll tell you why -privately —
I've seen her !
I can see her out of
windows !
every one of my
It is the same woman, I know, for she
is always creeping, and most women do
not creep by daylight.
I see her in that long shaded lane,
creeping up and down. I see her in
those dark grape arbors, creeping all
around the garden.
I see her on that long road under the
trees, creeping along, and when a carriage comes she hides under the blackberry vines.
I don't blame her a bit. It must be
very humiliating to be caught creeping
by daylight !
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I always lock the door when I creep
by daylight. I can't do it at night,
for I know John would suspect something at once.
And John is so queer, now, that I
don't want to irritate him. I wish he
would take another room ! Besides, I
don't want anybody to get that woman
out at night but myself.
I often wonder if I could see her out
of all the windows at once.
But, turn as fast as I can, I can only
see out of one at one time.
And though I always see her she
may be able to creep faster than I
can turn !
I have watched her sometimes away
off in the open country, creeping as fast
as a cloud shadow in a high wind.
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If only that top pattern could be
gotten off from the under one ! I mean
to try it, little by little.
I have found out another funny
thing, but I shan't tell it this time!
It does not do to trust people too
much.
There are only two more days to get
this paper off, and I
beginning to notice .
look in his eyes.
believe John is
I don't like the
And I heard him ask Jennie a lot of
professional questions about me. She
had a very good report to give.
She said I slept a good deal in the
daytime.
John knows I don't sleep very well
at night, for all I'm so quiet !
He asked me all sorts of questions,
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too, and pretended to be very loving
and kind.
As if I couldn't see through him!
Still, I don't wonder he acts so,
sleeping under this paper for three
months.
It only interests me, but I feel sure
John and Jennie are secretly affected
by it.
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HURRAH ! This is the last day, but
it is enough. John is to stay in town
over night, and won't be out until this
evening.
Jennie wanted to sleep with me —
the sly thing ! but I told her I should
undoubtedly rest better for a night all
alone.
That was clever, for really I wasn't
alone a bit ! As soon as it was moonlight, and that poor thing began to crawl
and shake the pattern, I got up and ran
to help her.
I pulled and she shook, I shook and
she pulled, and before morning we had
peeled off yards of that paper.
A strip about as high as my head
and half around the room.
And then when the sun came and
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that awful pattern began to laugh at
me I declared I would finish it today !
Wego awayto-morrow, and they are
moving all my furniture down again
to leave things as they were before.
Jennie looked at the wall in amazement, but I told her merrily that I
did it out of pure spite at the vicious
thing.
She laughed and said she wouldn't
mind doing it herself, but I must not get
tired.
How she betrayed herself that time !
But I am here, and no person touches
this but me paper ―not alive!
She tried to get me out of the room
— it was too patent ! But I said it was
so quiet and empty and clean now that
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I believed I would lie down again and
sleep all I could ; and not to wake me
even for dinner I would call when I
woke.
So now she is gone, and the servants
are gone, and the things are gone, and
there is nothing left but that great bedstead nailed down, with the canvas
mattress we found on it.
We shall sleep downstairs to-night,
and take the boat home to-morrow.
I quite enjoy the room, now it is bare
again.
How those children did tear about
here !
This bedstead is fairly gnawed!
But I must get to work.
I have locked the door and thrown
the key down into the front path.
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I don't want to go out, and I don't
want to have anybody come in, t
till John
comes.
I want to astonish him.
I've got a rope up here that even
Jennie did not find. If that woman
does get out, and tries to get away, I
can tie her!
But I forgot I could not reach far
without anything to stand on !
This bed will not move!
I tried to lift and push it until I was
lame, and then I got so angry I bit off a
little piece at one corner -but it hurt
my teeth.
Then I peeled off all the paper I
could reach standing on the floor. It
sticks horribly and the pattern just enjoys it ! All those strangled heads
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and bulbous eyes and waddling fungus
growths just shriek with derision!
I am getting angry enough to do something desperate. To jump out of the
window would be admirable exercise,
but the bars are too strong even to try.
Besides, I wouldn't do it. Ofcourse
not. I know well enough that a step
like that is improper and might be misconstrued.
I don't like to look out of the windows even — there are so many of those
creeping women, and they creep so
fast.
I wonder if they all come out of that
wall paper, as I did ?
But I am securely fastened now by
my well-hidden rope -you don't get
me out in the road there!
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I suppose I shall have to get back
behind the pattern when it comes night,
and that is hard !
It is so pleasant to be out in this
great room and creep around as I
please !
I don't want to go outside. I won't,
even ifJennie asks me to .
For outside you have to creep on the
ground, and everything is green instead
ofyellow.
But here I can creep smoothly on the
floor, and my shoulder just fits in that
long smooch around the wall, so I cannot lose my way.
Why, there's John at the door !
It is no use, young man, you can't
open it!
How he does call and pound !
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Now he's crying for an axe.
It would be a shame to break down
that beautiful door !
"John, dear! " said I in the gentlest
voice, the key is down by the front
steps, under a plantain leaf ! "
That silenced him for a few moments.
Then he said very quietly indeed,
" Open the door, my darling ! "
" I can't," said I.
by the front door,
leaf ! "
" The key is down
under a plantain
And then I said it again, several
times, very gently and slowly, and said
it so often that he had to go and see,
and he got it, of course, and came in.
He stopped short by the door.
" What is the matter ? " he cried.
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" For God's sake, what are you doing?"
I kept on creeping just the same, but
I looked at him over my shoulder.
spite of you and Jane ! And I've pulled
off most of the paper, so you can't put
me back ! "
Now why should that man have
fainted? But he did, and right across
my path by the wall, so that I had to
creep over him every time !
Charlotte Perkins Stetson
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