Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1882-04-28
Misfortune In Love.


Mrs. Schmidts funeral. She bures her
husband to-day and you We got to go to
the Lutheran, said a well-known West
Side undertaken to one of his hearse
drivers q few days ago, while a Mercury
reporter was within hearing. The man
of the hearse, mt the order given him,
opened his eyes to almost twice their
natural size, then focusing them on the
scribe, startlingly exclaimed, with an
air of amazement: "Good heavens!
would you believe it, but this is the
fifth man that woman has married
whom have had the pleasure OF riding
to the cemetery. Now that seems un-
usual doesn't itP' inquiringly asked
the driver of the reporter. ''But she is
a good customer for us, and now she is
widow again ehP' mused the man, and
then continuing said: ''Well, She got
money. Five altogether so far, and L
guess Just inside of about eleven years.
And what beats the deck is she's not
old or, bad-looking yet, and ain poor,
either. Why, the last husband she had
was u big, fine-looking Swiss, and we
thought that when she took him he
would last her forever. But no; he
chucked in his checks as quick as the
rest, and here she is with lis
again. Tell you about her and
her husbands, ~ again said the
hearse driver in response to the report
err s interruption. .Well, it is strange,
but as /, or we, have laid away all her
old men will tell how it is with her.
You see, as far as | have learned from
herself and friends at the buryings, she
came here some time ago II greenhorn
and went to work out in boarding.
house down on Wooster street, where
you could get u regular dinner for
twenty-five cents and II glass of beer to
wash it down. While she was here the
boss wife got fearful sick and the boss
| grew awful respondent over her, as he
| saw she must light out soon. One
Friday night his wife suddenly died,
I and about six months after the funeral
the pretty greenhorn was taken from
the kitchen, and after being placed as
master of the bar, was introduced to
all the boarders and customers rs the
| boss new wife. The boss from the
start looked as though he wouldn't live
long after his first wife, and sure
enough he hadn't been married again a
year when he gave up the ghost
| lDN tIlC
woman had got stouter and finer look
ing, and tell you when she used to
stand behind her bar with her arms all
bare, or leaned over the boys at table to
belp them TO soup, she just appeared
immense. Well, one of the good-look-
ing fellows on Mercer street
seemed to be gone on her
and she on him, for he was
always the first one at table and the
last one away. This was noticed, and
next he was seen behind the bar once
in while, and then they gave II blow
out or wedding TO settle, the affair. But
it seemed the groom was delicate, and
in less than seven months he died from
| galloping consumption, and ] rode him
| to the Lutheran Cemetery, where she
had bought plot to bury her first hu5-
band in. Then the widow went in
mourning for nearly II year, when a
young jeweler who worked down in
Maiden Lane showed up. He came
from the same place in Germany as she
| did. and talking of her old home and
folks seemed 10 make her like him the
more. Then she got taking off her
mourning clothes until summer came,
and she gave out the news that she was
going to sell ont and go home to Ger
many. Sure enough she did, and mar.
ried the jeweler at the same time. They
went TO Germany together, but came
back in short time with hardly cent.
lie went back to his shop, and she to a
setof rooms they hired. Then in lit
| tie while they decided to open II saloon
again up town. She run it like the
first place, but he kept at work, so that
with her energy and his earnings
they began to save money again, But
the poor jeweler caved in with Bright
disease and was also buried. Irecollect
Just as well as yesterday at that time
she said to me: Oh, dear, I am so un
lucky In my husbands Her next hus
band was the bartender she had TO hire
while her ieweer was sick. They got
along splendid, when one night while
he was chucling dice with u crowd, he
suddenly threw up his hands and fell
over ON the floor. a doctor was called
in and he said it was heart-disease. The
young man was moody and siclily after
that for while, when one night he
went 10 bed late, saying he did not sleer
well, must sleep alone. Next morning
he was found dead from heari-discase.
This man was put in the same plot with
\ the others. and now this last one am
i going TO take over makes the fifth. He
died from cancer in the stomach, and
was only sick about eight months. She
has just one child a boy, by her second
husband" Z" .f 'N1 1900
You have great misfortune with
4 your husbandspn said the reporter, who
had proceeded to interview the charm
ing widow. "Oh, yes" she replied
with heavy sigh. "But will not have
any more such trouble, because / shal
never marry again. ~ y Mercury
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