River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-01-10
How he Married Her,

one of the hotels liz rms city, says tne
Chicago Tribune, man whose way of
getting married Is 10 refreshingly new
and so full of excitement as to deserve
some brief description. 1t is hardly the
thing TO give this phrson's name, but Re
is here now for tie pAitpose OF selling SC me
milling property which he owns out IN
the mountains; and5 it any one chooses
to run down the record Of the several thous-
and individuals who are now here on that
mission, he may be able to find the hero
of this story. His tiIst adventure in we'd
lock was some years Ego at Denver. He
was then q resident OF Colorado, specu-
lating in mining lands. One day as he
was strolling along one of the city'S
streets, he went by y sewing machine
store. He looked Ia through the plate
glass window and ssst young woman
operating one of the machines. He WIS
nightly pleased, with her locks IS she SGT
there curled, RULED Aad GENERALLY ,adptH
ed, and he went in AID made closer in
spection&of her. This more thorough ex-
animation confirmed the favorable inn
preston he had formed, and he asked her
If she would marry ssim.
She said she would. They were mar.
ried, and dwelt together in peace for IT
might be three or four months. Then
there came disagreement. 1t is un-
necessary to state what it was about. She
rot Utah divorce and became free from
him. lie left Denvee and went back to
pros pect5hg. He was reasonably stceess.
fill in this, and came On here hot so eefe
LONG agb fot the bprpose OF dispdsihg
of some mining property which he had
gotten.
Notwithstanding she unlucky result OF
his disadvantage speculation, his thoughts
kept on returning to the joys of welded
life Ha lad tried X tuaided ohcej bit
had failed in it. 10 this time he took
the counsel of the iates. He went over
to a clalfyoyant ON West Madison street,
ana laid his case before her. Being
business man, and plain of speech, he
said: II want you 10 tell me where to
find the woman thqt will suit me for a
wife. If you tell me truly, and
find her and marry her, will give you
100000
At fist she didn't believe him, But,
while his words seemed little wild; the
way in which he shoke them was sobei
enough. There was possibility of ihak-
ing $4,000, and certainty of making
SIS, for she charged him that for her houf
of advice, and BIZ baid It. Ghe t66R
tounsel with her family and gave him an
answer the following day. "You CO.
said she, "to - ssliirt mandatory, and
look through the saving room. There
you VILE find the woman whom the Lord
Intended should be your wife, and the
one that will make you happy; and, per
hans, she said to herself ''the woman who
will stand Inc in for $4,000"
Now, he was not exactly sure about
this advice, because he had married one
woman who looked pretty as she sat at
sewing machine, and it didn't seem so
certain to him that happiness was always
to be found in company with that useful,
though romantic machine. Still he had
faith III his clairvoyant, and he resolved
to see what there was in her story. Sc
it may have been two, or perhaps three
months ago when he.wandered into IS
place and said: 4 would like to look
through yotir seviag-rooni. | wart to
see hoff YOU do business. 1want to khoN
how shirts are made on a big scale. !
have worn shirts, oG and on, for the last
thirty years but ns7yer studied up very
closely the business of making them.
Can look through your room and see
the outft2n
They said they had no objection, and
they took him up stairs, or in the rear
part of fhe store, q wherever the sewing
room may be, anil turned him loose
among dozen pre:ty girls and as many
chattering, rafting machines He walked
up and down the r@e,m viewing the coll
lection of beautie@t they looked ny at
him witn sidelong ;glanres and wonder
ing whaz in the world that rather odd
looking stranger was doing in such a
place.
Presently one of them caught his atten-
ton, and he went up TO her and put his
elbow on her machine. which brought his
lips very near to her cars, and he said to
her, in a tender tone!
"Do you know what | came here
forln
"She said: No indeed, sir, l do
not"
"Then, said he, ~ didn't come here
to look at these things. don't care
anything about sewing machines, and not
much about the people who run them.
/ came here to find my wife. You look
like her. You suit me. Will you marry
me.n
She look ed at him very steadily and
saw that he had,diarpond studs,and that he
had heavy rings on his fingers; that
his clothes locked very good
ard that he was not as homely as
many men whom she had seen. So she
said, after finishing the band on which
she was busted, and laying her work a
little on one side 8 will marry you If
your references arc good"
He SAID to her. still in O tender tone:
" Nv references are So-and-so and So-and-
so. Nv name is So a1d-so. / live at
such a place, ara got divorce three
years ago; hare a:eopy of the decree
duly certified; no season for trouble on
that account. }
Then b left, thai.king the proprietors
for their courtesy aud telling them he
had found out all ae wanted TO know;
went over to Peter Hand and got mar
riage license, IN which his name was mis-
spelled. Two daBa afterwsrd he was
married, the girl having been satisfied
with the references and he is now living
as was stated above IN great happiness al
one of the Chicago hotels. He is picture
OF devotion; she of wIfely love and fond
ness, and if the Utah divorce business is
abolished may remain 80. They bad been
married a week when the clairvoyant
noticed somehow or somewhere, that her
customer had got his wife. She opened
her eyes wide at thi& for clairvoyant
has not generally faith enough in what
she says to attach any Importance to it.
But the thought of her $4,000 inspired
her and she went over to see her man and
said tohim:
s'Here, you have found your wife and
married her Now ] want you to carry
out your contract and give me the &c.,
600"
Certainly he said; 81 admit the debt,
but YOU will have 70 wait until / have
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