The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-01-19
Wintering the Old Woman A Ro-
nance in Chicago Real Life.
From the Chicaeo Republican Goth.

From the Chicago isepuhi!can 10th.
Yesterday morning about lG O'Clock an
elderly, seriou:-ooking individual, well
protected from t'g iUcIeUency Of N
weather by suudry myers Of overcoats and
corlorters, entered the Office Of the cle'k
of the Superior Court in ~ very method
cal manner. and after spending about ten
minutes in unwrnpping himself to sulli-
cicnt degree to be abie to srlicuIate, eX-
pended abnat the same period Of time in
| Looking slowly around him. After care
! fully investigating the surroundings OF the
highly ornamented office. the old gentle
mans eye rested upon the bland f atures
! of one Of the most &c tle;Eanly and benevo-
lent OF living deputy clerks.
Laanng toward him, he seriously enun-
ciated tue important monosyl!nhle, Cap y
The parsonage thus addressed inquired
for further particulars.
Cap" repeated the stranger. ''are you
given to unhitcbns folks here? Do you
divorce little p
The reply to this interrogatory was Of n
somewhat atfirmatory character, whereupon
the ques;iouer stated his grievances, after
Reluctantly admitting that his wife had not
deserted him--th0ngh he wished she had
,nei;har had she been guilty Of adultery.
G uelty. drunkenness or any of the other
i:ttie excentricities for which the law al
lows "a dissolution Of the marital bonds
''rhe old woman, Cap quath he, don't
get along well with ne. She jaws me
fearful, and if any man can stand jawing
! his name is not mine. We don't yet along
well together, and haven't for thu last ttir-
, tv year. ], therefore want to be unhitrh
ed, and don't want her to know anything
, about it till its all over. want it dunc
now. because it, getting cold weather, ard
it will take good deal TO winter her
S Gun | get DIVORCE here without anybody
finding it cut for spell p
!, My friend" responded The ofIicia
suavely and kindly. "See ye yonder dpSk?'
The stranger responded in the aliiuna
tive
III you come here in ahont one hour
= vau viii see three young men. whose naiur
;, n tprac;tv is depicted or their countenan
ce.. sitting there together. In momen
they vii! hear that su,t fer divorce ha
o bern commenced III Y viii rush for tn
II papers, will hintaly assault each other fl
the FIRST chance 70 scanthjes cont MS, an'
if,,. = W, L wgi:e fox Fyur iGars apiece
!. Iratv are newspaper men. ard VII! writ
you up for publication. They are probu
= hly row in the next room doiGg the sam
u ,Aiae for somebody else. They will writ
Ii an article about yan with thirteen lea
lines. They will print all yep know .abou
IS Yourself and all that any one else know;
i: land a great deal that no one knows.
is may, of course. do you good, but of tina
YOU will haye to judge yourself. 70
W can't get rid Of them, for they are uiilue
y and ncnruntblp, and it won't be Of an
= use TO Kill tben, for at their Offices the
keep men great deal worse than The
are"
70 Tap slowly and sadly asked the no
- affrichted suitor, lis that all true p
If 1T is rae, all oft ana less than ii
IL truth
N ..lhen." said th,. old uaa, wi5ita mela
re chaiy air, us he prqce ded 10 again envee
of ninsef IN his mu.lilGdinuua Wrapping,
-I.uess I'll winter the old woman alter ii
s ii come uuch again next year, and the
,e4 perhaps, these fellows VIII be dead y
t. And silently aud sorruwfuiiy the disa
re pointed one pulled Ills hat over his eyes az
N quietly stole away
of --.r.4x>es--
/ King of Chills is sure ana certain. Dun
~ Aque-use King of Chills. Children C;
in use King of Chills. King Of CLills-tl
peoples fayorite.