Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-18

Advice % One who Wants 10 Bite %
Mere Than Ne Can Chew.
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iPeck's Sun.
A boy ofseventeen writes as follows
for advice:
Well, Here 1t comes again. I'm A
Boy of II come to you for advice
knowing that you are clever to Boys
Because read your paper Now the
fact OF the Business is rite Here.
/ am Desperately In love with a Wild
ow. She has children. My folks
are against it teeth and to-nail. Nam
Sails II want to 20 to He'll BY light
ming Express to go ahead and Marry
that woman. But | was thinking /
knew my own Bus. Now any advice
that you may give will be gladly Re-
ceived. But give 1t TO me right away
quick.
Yours with respec,
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There Is nothing on earth that is
handsomer or sweeter than widow,
unless IL is the same widow when she
is q girl, but the Sun would not Sc
riously advise boy of seventeen to
marry y 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 1t would not be strange,
II 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
husines had come TO pass. No doubt
the boy thinks the widow is pretty
nice. and no doubt she is, in her
place, bu; 1t IL best for her 10 take
somebody of her size and age. unless
she wants to run a kindergarten, with
a husband for one Of the scholars. A
boy that can't spell or write any bet
ter than you can, you young smart
alick of a kid, had not better tackle a
widow with four children. In few
years al! you would have would be
experience. II you lived, which you
probably would not. In ten years you
would be Just ripe enough TO pick,
while she would be getting gray and
would pass readily for your mother,
aud you would see some girl of your
own age you would like better, and
then the widow would maui the liver
out of you. The children that you
would be q breves father to would be
your playmates at first, then they
would be big eaough 10 whip you,
and you would wish you and the wild
ow were both dead. If the widow
seriously entertains matrimonial in
tentions toward you, there is.some-
thing wrong about her. Her head is
wrong. Ii she Is pretty aud accom-
plished as she ought 10 be, she does
not have 10 marry any seventeen-yea
old Kids. as there are grown persons
with all their faculties about them,
who are looking for just such wild.
ows to marry. Very likely the widow
Is giving you sassafras. She may like
to have you bothering around her,
and may &C casionally allow YOU To
kiss her, because you are young and
Innocent and don't know how to
kiss oldfashioned, like grown per-
sou. She probably looks upon you
as only plaything, and then pets
you. and makes you feel real cunning,
different from what you ever felt be-
fore. and when you go away from her,
feeling that you love her better than
all the world. and would be willing
to give up home. parents, everybody,
to be Rugged by her. and all the time
she Is laughing at you and calling
you little fool. She very likely al
lows you 10 think she loves you, just
TO keep In practice. so that when
when q man comes along and begins
TO shy full grown smiles at her, and
look at her the way a boy doesn't
know how, she will know how to act.
A widow knows what she Is about
pretty well, and she knows a calf
from grown man better than you
do. You had better put your bead
under q pump and hire somebody to
pump waller on your hair and down
your neck, then 90 to school and
learn how TO spell simple words, asd
behave yourself until II Is time for
you 10 think OF marrying, and then
depend ON the friendship Of your
parents. In the meantime the widow
will get married and you will find q
girl that will love you so your teeth
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