The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-25
CAPTURING soNs-lN-LAW.
Mrs Greathead Tells the Sewing Circle
How She Married on Six Girls


How She Married on Six Girls.
81 did it with the frying-pan, cozy
fire and cushioned rocking-chair.
There. now, You have the whole story,
confessed Mrs. Greathead, driven into
corner 1t was at the last meeting OF
the sewing circle, when. irresistabl BILE
pressure forced her to explain how sne
had married off six daughters in quick
succession.
I'D have every one of those girls on
my hand this minute. she began, If /
hadn't found them husbands out OF my
cook book Despising an old maid as l
do smoky chimney, when my eldest
girl was full grown l hustled about
right and left for some means OF marry
ing her Mary Lon was neither ostrly
handsome nor overly sprv, so ! knew
better than TO trust to luck. | just set
to work and figured out a plan that
has never miscarried with any one of
them.
tAll my life, she continued, 81 have
taken right smart notice of men ways,
and have heard big stories of the hap
py results Of feeding the sex. So /
looked carefully over the field and
picked me out decent, thriving young
fellow, whose habits were good and his
heart whole. You see. my anxiety
never made me forget my manners or
set traps for other folks game. | be-
gan by asking him, friendly like, to
call and led the conversation around to
his mother, the way he'd been raised
and what he most cared to eat in gem
eral never missed a word and after
the first visit had him in socia bly, for
Sunday night tea. Then you may be
sure got in some fine work, and when
the second meal was over knew the
warnings of that mans stomach better
than he did himself.
my calculations, added Mrs. Great
head, lied me to believe it is best to
year. Spring is no good. A man loves
all womankind at that season, his ap-
petite is slack, and it's hard lines to
keep track of both of them. In nv ex-
perience, courtship triggers laid in No
vember lead, as rule, to wedding in
May. OF course, my chief dependence
is put in tempting food, but I'd ALWAYS
advise backing up the table with,a big
comfortable rocker, drawn facing
cheerful fire. Speak of ii as his chair
and his fire. and you won't make anv
mistake. Another thing, don't be too
pressing. A steady eye and a light
hand count far more than nagging. |
was always careful not to gush. but if I
had apple fritters Tuesday / apologized
for their poorness and begged him to
drop in Thursday and let Mary Lou
redeem her mothers reputation
with backbone and peach charlotte
In the evenings l had her trained 10
sit in a low sewing chair, under the
big lamp, and either darn socks or hem
busters. When we spoke of her | said
trembled at the awful blow it would
be for us if she should marry and go
away.
This kind of thing kept up right
along till the first of February, when
my gentleman began to feel easy and
snug, like one of the family. Then
came the techy moment, for Just at
this point | legged in some silly dandy
that neither / nor Mary Lou would
have looked at. But ! coddled the
had him to tea on the same
night as the regular, and waited TO
see what would happen. Well, it al
ways did He and Mary Lou would
come blushing to ask if they might
have each other, and while they made
love in the parlor ] studied up my cook
book to see my way to another son-in-
law.-Illustrat ted American.