Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-10-09
The Bey and the Nidew.

The Boy and the Hidew.
A boy of seventeen writes as fol-
lows for advice:
Well Here I comes again. I'm A
Boy Of IL come to you for advice
knowing that yon are ceverto Boys
Because I read your paper. Now
the fact of the Business is rite Here.
I am Desperately in love with A wild
ow. She has 1 children. Ny folks
are against II teeth & tonail. Nam
Sais il I want to go to He'll By light
ming Express to go ahead & Marry
that woman. But I was thinking
that I knew my own Bus. Now any
advice that you may give will Be
gladly Received. But give it to me
rite away quick. ' - "a
Yours withrespect ; . -
There is nothing on earth that is
handsomer or sweeter than a widow,
unless it is the same widow when she
is girl, but the Sun would not seri-
ously advise boy of seventeen to
marry a widow with four children.
The chances are that instead of the
little husband taking the place of a
father to the four children, the wild
ow would have FIVE children on her
hands, and it would not be strange,
if things did not go right, to see her
take the seventeen -year-old husband
across her knee and warm him so that
he would think the advice of his
mother was well given and the hell
business had come to pass. No doubt
this boy thinks the widow is pretty
nice, and no doubt she is, in her
place, but It is best for her to take
somebody of her size and age, unless
she wants to run kindergarten, with
husband for one of her scholars. A
boy that can't spell or write any bet
ter than you can, you young smart
alick of a lid, had better not tackle
widow with four children. In a few
years all you would have would be
experience. If you lived, which you
probably wouldn't, in ten years you
would be just about ripe enough to
pick, while she would be getting gray
and would pass readily for your moth
er, and you would see some girl of
your own age that you would like
better, and then the widow would
maui the liver out of you. The chill
dren that you would bea brevet faith
er to would be your playmates at
FIRST, then they would get big enough
to whip you, and then you would
wish you and the widow We're both
dead. If the widow seriously enter
tains matrimonial intentions toward
You, there is something wrong about
her. Her head is wrong. If she is
lpretty and accomplished, as she
!: ought .to be, she does not have to
marry any seventeen-year-old kids. as
there are grown persons with all
, their faculties about them, who are
Hooking for just such widows to mar
Try. Very likely the widow is giving
you sassafras. She may like to have
you bothering around, and may oc-
casionally allow you to kiss her be-
, cause you are young and innocent,
and don't know how to kiss old fash
> ioned like grown person. She pro
7 badly looks upon You as as play
I thing, and pets you, and makes you
feel real cunning, different from wha,
you ever felt before, and when you
go away from her, feeling that you
Hove her better than ali the world
and would be willing to give vi
home, parents, everybody, to be hug
e ged by her all the time. she is laugh
ing at you, and calling you iittl'
S fool She very likely allows you t.
e think she loves You, just TO keep il
Ipractice, SO when a man comes along
s and begins to shy full grown srnile'
' at her, and look at her the way bo,
Idon't know, she will know how {,
g act" A widow knows what she il
e about pretty well, and she knows
e calf from!a grown man better thai
: you do. You had better put you
r head under pump and hire some
i body to pump water on your hair
and down your neck, then go t.
t school and learn how to spell simpl,
words, and behave yourself untilit i
s time for you to think of marrying
e and then depend on the friendship @
your parents. In the meantime til
e widow will get manned, and yon wi
/ find girl that viii love you SO you
teeth will ache.-Peck's Sun.