AN OWNER OF REAL ESTATE.
This story comes all the way from Russia : — A Ipdy of Wareaw, desiring to marry, advertised the fact in the daily papers and enumerated the qualifications she required in her suitor. Among them she mentioned that he must be the owner of a real estate. She received many letters in reply, but one of them was strikingly original. The writer said that he possessed all that which the lady desired in her future husband.
He was good-looking, he held a respectable position, he had many friends and was received in good society, and coull support a family comfortably. As to real estate, he had that, too ; he was the owner of a plot of ground in a cemetery which was large enough to accommodate him, a wife and six children. The lady selected the writer of this letter from the whole number of suitors. She opined that a young man of this position who had thought of acquiring graves for himself and a large family before he was married was surely worthy of the endowment of her heart and hand.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 2710, 24 July 1891, Page 4
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185AN OWNER OF REAL ESTATE. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 2710, 24 July 1891, Page 4
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