EXTRACT FROM AN EXCHANGE.

White Ribbon, Volume 25, Issue 297, 18 March 1920, Page 12

EXTRACT FROM AN EXCHANGE.

They were standing talk?ng as the) awaited the arrival of the wedding party at the church door. “Ah, well, say what you like, there is an awful risk in it. Now, I’ve had three husbands.” “Three ! My dear Tabitha, did yoi say three husbands? I didn’t think the law allowed it.” “Oh, not all at once, my dear; mi first husband —ah! but he was a good man wiping her eyes as different h light from dark to the husband I've got now. Why, many a time I’ve just been going out, and he said to me “Tabitha,” he said, “your hair is just any way ; come back, and 171 do it for you,” and sure enough I’d just sit down and he’d do it, good as any woman ud do it. Then there was my second husband; why, he never noticed how your hair w’as done, or your dress either, for that matter. Just how the meals were done, that was all that troubled him. But there, the whole three of them was strong ir. the nerve. Now, this young soldier a hat’s going to be married to-day they do say as how he’s got 110 nerve .it all since he came home from the var, shocked all away with the shells, ( suppose, and I always will say that a man's nerves should be the strong**’ part of him, when he takes on to married; and 1 did hear she’s ingoing to have a veil or nothing fan* i ful jike, kind of military, p’raps. My! I had a beauty the first time veil, I mean, not husband, none o! them was what you’d call beauties but the second I didn't, and the third time I just said to my husband that vas to be: ‘l’ve been down to t' r minister every tine before, so you can just ask him to come to me tor this coremoi.v,’ and so he did, and we Married quite quiet like but here tfev come.”