SHE DIDN'T WANT A HUSBAND.
Don't know whether it's new or not. I heard it down iti J , said the man who recently returned from that town. There if a rich widow living just outside the place, he continued, and after several elderly gentlemen had vainly endeavored to lure her into matrimony again a report gained circulation that she was a regular man hater. Finally, a wealthy widower, carrying with him the evidences of good living and heartiness that seek congenial companionship, visited the town, and was soon a caller upon, the intractable widow. After he thought sufficient advancement had been made to justify a proposal, be proceeded to feel'his way. " Beautiful home, you have here." "Yes, I enjoy it." "Pine outlook, fine trees, very fine all round. But there is one thing lacking." " Yes." "It is an Adamless Eden, don't you think now? You are so good in' everything else that I should think you would be glad to share these blessings with a husband." " Are you proposing, sir?" _" In a tentative way. If you can be convinced that you should have a husband I Bhould like to De the man." " Husband 11 have a gardener that smokes and drinks, I have a parrot thai swears like a pirate, and I have a cat that Btays out all night. What in the world do I want with a husband?"
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Evening Star, Issue 11434, 29 December 1900, Page 6
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230SHE DIDN'T WANT A HUSBAND. Evening Star, Issue 11434, 29 December 1900, Page 6
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