The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-08-15

me a frank, plain letter. He's SO and
needs a wife. win L or won't /? Next
comes a bachelor of 40, a blacksmith
with property; next is telegraph opera
tor Of 25: next is an 'unincumbered wod-
over who will not give his age.
After these follow a boy of 10, who
lives on a farm with his parents and
wants TO know now much money L am
worth; a widower from Iowa, with three
boys; a professional man of 30, wifh A
good practice in a Kansas town; bash
ful young man of "a. who says he has
$1,000 year U suspect him); a drug clerl.
I'm a downtown city drug store; a jolly
dentist who weighs 200 pounds and inn
plores me to answer him; n contractor
and builder, who asks for short out
line of myself, and a man who owns an
orange and lemon grove in California.
There are farmers and blacksmiths,
clerks and bankers, printers and physi-
clans, and nearly every one of them is
fatigued with society even the man
who drives a sand wagon, and they all
want TO marry a wife. Think of the
chances
"A widower Of 81 comes next. He's DID,
that's true; but he's steady and sober
and he has property.
Some of my correspondents propose
curious things for me to do. One man
wants me To show myself on certain
street corner with a blue ribbon on my
waist romantic young clerk proposes
that l meet him at a corner with a
bouquet OF flowers in my hand.
He will carry an umbrella In his left
hand His signal, when he believes he
sees me, is 10 shift the umbrella from
the left TO the right hand. If | am the
right person / must initiate him with
my bouquet. This seems TO be a young
man OF imagination.
"A young man here wants TO take me
out bicycle riding If | will tell him where
and when to call. A 26-year-old writes:
Perhaps you are the one j am to love
and wed. Who knows? Who can tell2'
A conceited young railroad clerk tells
me his name has been linked with many
of society in Kansas City. lie wants to
call. He says: Am very refined. Can
promise you will not be disappointed in
me-. 1 don't like him. He will be too
hard to please. A bookkeeper from
Mena, Ark, getes $50 a month and be-
lieves two can live on $50 month if
they were so minded He should fnl
some girl who Is so minded.
"A young swain from Burr Oak, Kan,
says: Il am going TO make some nice girl
a good man soon. Another from viii
son, Kan, aged Il, says he wants to cor
respond with me with a view OF early
marriage That sounds encouraging a
country boy who attended college in 1lli-
nois wants to meet me.
This letter, written in a fine, beauti-
full hand, is from a soldier at Fort Riley.
lie is q and his pay, above his own ex-
penses, is $50 a month. He is nearly six
feet tall and weighs ls2 pounds; very
large man.
Another letter, written on type
writer is from railroad station agent
In Kansas. He is a widower of 32 with
five children. the oldest years His
wife died last April and he wants to-
marry some one who will care for his
children.
His salary is s75 month and he has
the privilege of firing an operator. He
wants 10 marry me and have me as
his operator. For he argues ingenuously
that In this way he could not only have
his wife always with him. but he could
thereby bring larger revenue into the
family"