The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-09-13
THE BOY AND THE WIDOW.
rPeck's Sum-

rPeck's Sum-
 A boy of seventeen writes as follows for advice:
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 Nov the fact of the Business is rife Here. I am Desperately in love with . widow She has children. My foIks are agaiast It teesh < tonail- Nam Sais if want to 70 to Hell
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 There is nothing on earth that is hand- sOmer or sweeter than widow, snless 1t is the same widow when she is a girl, but the Sss would not seriously advise . boy q seventesa to marry . widow with four children. The chances arc that instead of the iistle husband taking the place ofa father to the tour children, the widow vould have five children on her hands and it would not be strange, if things did not % night, to sec her take the seventeen year old husband across her knee and warm him 70 that he would think the ad- vice of his mother vas well given and the hell business had come to pass. No doubt this boy thinks the widow is pretty nice, and DO 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 a husband for one of the scholars. A boy that can't spell or write any better than you can, you young smart alick of kid. had better not tackle . -A r. years all you would have would be ex- perience. 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 mother, and you would sec some girl of your own age that you would like better, and then the widow would maui the liver out of you. The children that you would be brevet father to would be your playmates at first, then they would get big enough to whip you, and you would wish you and the widow were both dead. If the widow seriously entertains matri- moniai intentions towards you, there is something wrong about her. Her head is wrong. If she is pretty and accom- plished, as she ought to be, she does not have to marry any seventeen-year.ol kids, as there are grown persons with all their faculties about them, who are look ing for just such widows to marry. Very likely the widow is giving you sassafras. She may like to have you bothering around. and may occasionally allow you to kiss her because you lre young and innocent, and don't know how to kiss old-fashioned, like grown person. She probably looks upon you as a plaything, and pes you, and makes you feel real cunning, different from what you ever felt before, and when you go away from her. feeling that you love her better than all the world, and you would be willing to give up home, parents, everybody, to be hugged by her all the time, she is laughing at you, and calling you little fool She very likely allows you to think she loves you, just to keep in practice, % when a man comes along, and begins to shy full grown smiles at her, and look at her the way boy don't know how, she will know how to act A widow knows what she is about pretty well, aud she knows calf from a grown man better than you do. You had better put your head under pump and hire somebody to pump water on your hair, and down your neck, then go to school and learn how to spell simple words, and behave yourself until it is time for you to think of marrying, and then depend on the friendship of your parents. In the mean time the widow win get married and you will find girl that will love you so your teeth will ache.