CHOOSING A WIFE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 12095, 12 March 1910, Page 3 (Supplement)

CHOOSING A WIFE.

THE TENTH SELECTED AND NOW

WANTS DIVORCE

KANSAS CITY, Jan. 12.

After giA-ing nine applicants for his hand ■'in', marriage a nine months' trial,, each/to- prove their' worth as housekeepers, and having rejected them all for 'thetjentli, Frank- BoAvman, 47 years old, of 1828 Kansas ' avenue, has been aljde to. keep the one he chose as his bride only six months. 7 Having tried the nine Avomen just long enough to^/tind . out .their ___virtues,. BoAvhian -was "s'pbilecl 7 a's a hiisshand" according to his wife, and became too conscious of the *frtults u 'of' tlie • Avoman he finally, chose. She could not stand the strain of his constant' domesticTsciencc criticism,- and to-day Lucy TE,. Bpwmaii, his.brido of last August,,. (sued; him fori divorce., 7■ v ,„,_„,..;,... „-, 7 '. "I' want a hQU^.keeper. ... thatj,.! can, marry,", lie tojid^ijne,, said. .Mrs BQAynriiii' to-day. j."j, have^trh}&..nine on. this under-, standing "and they have (ill "failed to measure up to my stiindai*d.' youi'; looks and I am Avilling to' try yoiir tibility as a housekeeper for a montly" ■ I ■ ''I told him that I Avas merely lopl^-j ing foiva place.to'L'Wrk nnd -that I diil; not desires to marry 'hi'iri.i He prevailed' upon me to -come f ariywcay and 1 by the end of a month I i*sd.,beoonie so attach-, ed t \tq ( . the three youngest children that I consented., to marry , him." ... .': '/ l3ut.no sooner, 'had.^he marrjage been celebrated , than ,. Mrs „ , ...-Bowman's, trcj'ubjes. . began. 7 She , did not ( make a's gorid: qpffee as. Miss,, ( White.; liad done. She .. could. -not "fix / /up" . the /two little girls as well ya Mrs ; Fletcher had done. Miss Murphy ha.d managed /the • grocery buying" better than, "his ."wife AA-as doing, etc. . f..„ I.■ <•■ !,■ •.■'•'.- T .1 '