The Portland daily press., 1893-07-25
SOME ODD STORIES.

Liam G1rl--Mafr1ed, W1doWou ana again
9 Wife When Her First Husband Reap
psars-A Romance of the Antipodes.
copyright, 1885, by American Press Associa-
toni
If story writers knew more about real
life, as have always maintained, there
would be no need for their taxing their i'm
agfnations to supply interesting and even
exciting material
The case Of Mrs. Edith Sherwood is in
point. Mrs Sherwood, if still living, and
I sincerely hope she is, cannot be at this
time more than five and twenty years OF
age. When first saw her few years ago
she was as sweet and pretty little brt1-
nette as one could find In a months travel
between the two oceans that wash our
eastern and western shores, and withal she
was quick witted and accom- piished, and
she had gentle, girlish. half helpless way
about her that made her very attractive to
men who-and speak for myseH-are
never attracted by your self reliant amazon.
This is Mrs. Sherwood IS STORY as learned
from her own lips and the lips of her
friends:
She was born and brought up in the city
of Melbourne Her father was a surveyor,
who tried to bring up the children as his
wife would have done, for he had been
widower ever since Edith was baby.
When Edith was nineteen years Of age,
through failing health her father became
unable to support her and ap invalid broth
err, SO like brave girl she started in to help
them.
She studied stenography and found a po-
sition with an American named Sherwood,
who was an importer Of jewelers. supplies.
Mr.. Sherwood was bachelor of forty, q
fine looking man, who from the Hrst took
a deep interest in bis sweet faced little
clerk. Such gallant attention could not
escape the girls notice. At first she was
inclined to resent his interest, but she soon
saw that he was a noble man, and gradually
she began to reoiprocate the feeling which
he had manifested from the first.
One day Mr.. Sherwood called upon Edith
at her fathers house, and he said to her in
her fathers presence:
II Ike you too much, Miss Edith, to have
you continue in my employ"
The girl looked up in surprise and stam-
mered:
81 do not understand you, Mr.. sher-
wood''
''Then / must be palmer. want you to
cease being my employee by becoming my
wife"
There was no installing this. Edith
looked from her helpless father to the man
who had made this offer and then extended
hand to each.
Ii she did not love Mr. Sherwood before
they were married, it is certain that she
learned to do so soon afterward. for in the
blow that soon came to the husband she
showed herself to be in every way the de.
voted wife.
Three months after his marriage Mr..
Sherwood became nervous and excitable,
and attributing this to overwork his wife
suggested that they should take a trip to
California, where a brother, the only re-
manning member of his family, was living.
Mr.. Sherwood fell in with this, and sell
ing out his business at a loss he took
steamer with his wife for San Francisco.
On the way over the nervousness IN
creased into acute insanity. The man flung
all his money and his wife's jewelry into
the sea, and he would have thrown her and
himself after them had he not been re-
strained and subsequently placed under
strong guard.
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