The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1899-06-27
A FEW CASES OF LOVE
Some Ifu~trsafons of Matrimonial
Felicity BremGht onx nj
Sewing Society.

We'll, I don't see what men could
ever see in that woman, and yet she's
been married three times And 70 nice
mrn. TOO"
ayes. but the first one died at Dwight
and she was divorced from the sec
ond-"
But she's living with the third like
a modern edition of Boncis-"
II was at Z sewing society and the
talk had drifted from servants TO hus-
bands; thence TO love and mzrrige-
20, it's all very well for people TO lay
down hard and fast rules about what
kind of marriages viii be happy and
what sort won't After a long and
varied experience with young people
I've come TO the conclusion that its all
luck Thus spoke q xereue-faeed,
grzy-haired woman who had earned
right TO a respectable hearing from the
mastery manner in which she had JUST
cut the Il DOZEN flannel pettieoars for
females Of al ages, and without . pat
tern, too.
Look At John Fftzgerz1d-as par
fieuiar and immaculate a man as ever
lived. His wife is pretty, but she starf-
I ed TO Housekeeping with three dish tow
els and uses old black stockings for
wzstcIoths because they don't get
gT.Dy ike white Ones-and yet he's
happy"
That makes me think of true story
heard about why Jennie BIS engage
I Ment was broken with that eastern
man. said the girl with the new gold
thimEle. He was one OF these fzz-
I titious persons. but you know how
dainty and pretty Jenny wzz- Wei. he
fell terribly in lore with her at View
port ard followed her out here. And
they became engaged He was anxious
for speedy marriage because he want
ed to spend the autumn abroad She
hurried her preparations and he was
most deEotsd- One day. xSzeh a hot Au-
gust day. she had been shopping all
morning with her mother ard met him
for lunch She always locked dainty
and sweet and that day was no excep-
ton. but as they left the table she
dropped her handkerchief 1t was Just
little moist, grimy ball He picked IL
up. and, after gazing al II an instant.
returned IL He was called TO View York
BY telegram that night and sailed alone
for Scotland the next week
well, she married a much better
man. remarked the white-haired LADY,
That Is rot 50 good IS the story Jack
Frain told, Is It. EISiez~ said the cns
idle girl You know he's gone to St
Louis to be best man at his friends wed
ding, and he told US a lot about the
man. 4 year or 50 ago he became much
interested IN 4 girl-a ST. Louis girl
and paid her q lot Of attention Sh-
was bright. and unexpected, ard pref
ty- One night he took her TO a cor
cert As she came into the parKor witt
. her jacket on one of the buttoEs wa
hanging BY thread. He admired he
and was Observant Of verything abou
Ter and he wished she had sewe<. it ca
But she was bright and interesting an,
he forgot 1t. and before they reaches
home he had asked If he might wal
with her to church the next Sunday
When he saw her come into the pariO
on Sunday with the Jacket button stiI
: by the thread he didn't Ike It, and b
was relieved when. after service. tn
, jacket being fastened again. the but
ton dropped quite of She Iaughe,
about II ard said she had meant I
, TX il before and now she must 90 81
! he then asked her TO go TO the theate
with him on Wednesday evening Whsl
that occasion came there again was I b
jacket linus the button He was DIS
! guSted- 1t was too bad that a pretty
. sweet girl should bS so careless Be
! before they reached home that evenin
. from the thesrer she had promised I
: marry him And he IS going to MARI
I her tonight, too"
> None of your stories are equal I
! one ny grandfather used to tell II
marked another member OF the circI.
, at was about . man who was deepl
/. IN love with a beautiful girl. but Ia
! been told she possessed high tempe
So he thought he would test her. an
one day when she was wearing an e
:, pecially dainty gown he tipped glas
Of wine over II. running IT She said
was of 10 consequences. that he skoul
not trouble himself about it for me
!. Tnsnt, and went and changed il. Whe
she came back he asked her to MARI
him After they were married he to-
her about the test. and that he ncvS
had seen such amiabiiity- o. she al
swered. you didn't know that wer
l upstairs and bit a piece out of tn
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