Why He Doesn't.
"Why don't I marry?" said a confirmed bachelor, in reply to a questioner. "I will tell you of the little incident which cured me of my leanings toward matrimony.
"I was working my way through a crowd in a sTiop, and I stepped upon the hem of a lady's skirt. She turned quickly round, with a furious look, and was evidently about to address some fierce remark to me, when a change came over her face suddenly.
" 'Oh, I beg your pardon,' she said. 'I was gojng to get very angry. You see, I thought it was my husband.' "I smiled faintly "as i walked off. sayingto myself, 'If wives get angry so much more quickly with their husbands than they do with other men, what is the use of being a husband?'" <
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Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 87
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136Why He Doesn't. Otago Witness, Issue 2660, 8 March 1905, Page 87
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