Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1873-09-24
Marryino q Widow.
Thirty vears old to.dav

CouIu IL be possible tiIHt J., Mark
Marks, had jumped from teens no
suddenly on the threshold of thirty
summers asked my mother.
She counted her fingers, naming
John aud Joe, Charley and Henry,
Maria aud Susan, Bctsey aud Eliza.
Jcrusha aud Hannah. Ellen aud Sallie,
Annie and Julia, Marion AMI Minnie,
and the rest Of her smai family !:
finally she said I was thirty years old.
This settled the question
l was unmarried. l had resisted
for ten years all matrlm )nial tc,npta-
tions; but now feeling the infir,niiies
OF age creeping on, l concluded it
would not be an Unhealthy tlilrg for
me to secure a wife. How to bring
this determination to successful
conclusion demanded my ,nsidcru-
tion; pondcred, and cont nucd to
ponder.
Possessing q modest di position,
the idea ofgoimg about in t 10 society
OF marrinscable girls Oh II huntiu.
expedition didn't SUIT Inc. Finally. /
made up my mind to dodg this ditfi-
Guilty by advertising. Therefore, the
columns Of the Times, one line morn
ing i'll June, contained the follow.
ing
n MATRIMONIAL.-"Thc alvc .:ser, q vou,.
AL man, twsniy-i' Years oil /, proposing In
,'rr, t,corrc .ppnI with some ,Llg il,iy with n
VI " "i rminsu m,,r ,.non:ai l:iiai.ce Ad,.re..
n,:l send c,rte de ',site to Anxious Scat, Pod
wick p'stofiics.'''
Three days after the publication of
this | had received seven hundre: /:
and fifty replies. Was encouraged.
Such generosity assured me that
wasn't the only person in Podwirk
who had hankcring after conjugal
felicity.
| opened the letters anil devoted
two whole days to their perusal.
The one that suited me best was
enclosed III all cnve.Op surrounded
with black lines, All indication that
the writer had recently attended II
funeral, which, cUusIiering the Iia-
turc OF The correspondents was evil
dence enough that she didn't allow
grief to Interfere with anything that
promised consolation. Her note was
us follows:-
"MR. ANXIOUS SEAr-T notice that you desire
u CORE pond with young lady; -Dui, perhaps,
YOU may not wish To hear iioIu ON. VIII ,, though
young. Is widow: am twenty -thrr. years Of
age, have an amiable d.spos,.ion, Ibeiieve, and
|
from the incl,se,i carte de visitc shoull YOU
desire TO know Inc further, please ad trees Julia,
Last Haduan'
Her visite was beauty. She
struck my fancy exactly. But she
was II widow. Here was an objection;
yet coiisidcred the matter thorough.
~, aud, instead of allowing my pre-.
judices 10 run loose, took what
conceived. to he sensible view Of it.
reasoned thus:
''Sha isa widow. Being thus, her
application is an argument in sup.
port of my resolution to marry.
Why! Because she has been married
amt liked it SO well that shes willing
to marry again. Mat,imuny, there.
fore, must be the true state of happi.
nrss.'
l wrote her a letter, and in due
'imc received Il reply. Other cpis-
lies followed; finally, one pleasant
. afternoon, l found myself in East
iladdaIl, i'll the presence OF Mrs.
Wllsonburg.
1t is sufficient to say that the inter-
view Was mutually agreeable. The
Young lady was attIred in mourning,
which was SO bccnminy to her com.
r plcXion that never once thought OF
| WlisOnUufs5 deceased.
Her politeness was charming. IIcl
conversational powers were superior
'.ifrr voice vas ever soft,
Gentle AID low; an excellent thing III woman. u
. Her figure was natural, not being
, made to order by supplies OF whale.
bone, and, altogether, your humble
servant Was completely alive to her
virtues. and, ii s.e had aly faults,
, was very bind 10 them.
was ready to be married, being
: SO enthusiastically smitteu, right con
that line. If il took all sunulrr ;" but
prudence dictated that We had bcltc:
. not be i'll II hurry-iolks would talk
about ii, ctc.,-aIu our decision Was
to wait lOr Il few months, and ..hcl.
settle down III podwIck together.
Time passed ut II remarkably slow
gait through the days and weeks
which followed. Christmas came ut
last, and the dag following had been
agreed upon for our wedding fcs,ivi-
iils.
Now, desire to ask the masculine
reader, who has Il wifi" ana babies. ii
. his feelings were ANYTHING like mine
during Iii: uay prcccdin" Ills invest
mcnt oi live or ten dollars in il min
istcrlal hand for services rcn,iercd!''
IL was The most nervous dav had
ever experienced, and it belm. the
last day OF my single bicssculless, did
: not furnish ITS much serenity us many
which had p"ss.u. Yet my convic.
tlons OH the subject OF marriage were
not to he shaken. And here remark
that il is my belief that the man Who
has hp,,l, al ,.in i..l :
: seat tor several months, w hen brought
10 within Il few hours oi the cons unl
nation dcvoutly wished, has as per-
feet and cl ar an idea of his situation
us poss. bic to human nature
$50 clear, SO shining, so cvid.r,
That it will giimIler through bli al meas eyes -
The important day alI important
hour arrived at last, AMI Mrs. John
Wilsonburg aud Mark Marks, ESQ,
OF POdwick, were tied together, So To-
speak, anL set aIriit III this wide
world.
\ AT last we found ourselves engaged
III housekeeping, oppos lie tic village
green in Podwick.
We had occupied the premises two
days, and on til: tven.ns following
received u numb T., f lis.
Mark" saId Julia, before any of
our visitors arrived, "r!l wear my
@rc"n silk TO nigh l tess. MIR.
WiisunDurg thou sht gree very Lc.
coming To NE"
"Anythir. y.r please" said I; but
Iomitted to auu, chang W.l,unLurg.'
though had lot, by any mcan>, just
at that moment iors Otte the drccus-