MARRY IN HASTE AND REPENT AT LEISURE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 323, 24 November 1879, Page 2

MARRY IN HASTE AND REPENT AT LEISURE.

A certain San Francisco lady, according to Truth, married a distinguished-looking but mysterious stranger, but found out that instead of being a Mexican grandee, he was a physician's groom, earning 20 dollars a month. After deciding that it would be wiser to go home and get her meals regularly than to stay with the coachman and starve, she sent him the following pointed epistle:—l am deeply sotry that hunger and other circumstances over which I have no control compel me to write you this note. I find that you are utterly unable to provide for me, and as I am at present unable to provide for you, I will have to leave you, and return to that happy home whence you stole me, and once more fill it with the sunshine of love. Had I known that you expected me to live on the morning breezes for breakfast, the trade winds for dinner, and the evening fogs for supper, I would have honestly told you that my constitution would not be equal to it, even where the atmosphere is so odorous and substantial as in this hotel in Tar Flat, and would hare declined to become your wife. If

you shall ever marry another tody, I trust you will remember the advice of your first wife, and that the domestic menu will consist of puddings made of plums rather than of the north wind, and pies of pumpkins rather than of zephyrs—in short, that you will provide her with a bill of fare rather than a bill of air. If you meet me on the street hereafter, pass me by as a perfect stranger, for if you do not I will be compelled to you the cut direct. - Your wife, Mary,