The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-03
DIR. HENSON'S SECOND WIFE.
story Of Courtship as Told Among
M~ethOdists i'm Michigan.

Correspondence Of the indianapolis Journal.
EFWoRTH HEIGHTS. LUDINGTON.
Mich, July Clone chapter of the Epworth
Heights entertainment is ended. Dr.. Hen
son, OF Chicago. has said his pieces and
gone. They were good pieces and Well
said, entertaining and Instructive, with the
emphasis on entertaining. There was a
great deal of wit and not a little wisdom
III his lecture on Fools" and likewise in
his lecture on Backbone" other lectures
are To follow, but none will excel these in
popularity. Some are supposed TO be nee
essarily dry, better adapted TO the school
room than to a lakeside resort. whose chief
attractions are is ozone and its fun, "A
ravenous appetite and good, sound sleep.
If DR.. Berry's school of Methods is TO
be taken as a sample, l pity those who are
TO lecture on astronomy and the like. He
has just returned from San Francisco,
where, as chief of the Epworth Leaguers.
he had willing listeners. so. when he con-
fronted an audience OF less than a dozen
In the auditorium. with a seating capacity
of $500, TO tell how to conduct an Epworth
League meeting, he begged to be excused
and went TO join the bowlers and bathers.
King Lear" by DR.. Quayle, is looked
forward 10 as a possible relief from drier
themes.
LII. ACilSO - lOL OILY a CHARMING lee
turer or his kind, but he is a good story
teller as well, especially a teller of love
stories, and they lose none of their interest
on account or his personal relation 10
them, tor his story is not founded on fact,
but Is cold, unaGorned fact, with the charm
that il proves that romance in love matters
is not the exclusive birthright of giddy
young people. The story goes that twelve
years or SO ago a good-looking, intelligent
woman Joined his church in Chicago and
at once entered heartily upon such church
work as good women can do. much to the
delight of the pastor and the church. But
II soon developed that her domestic rela-
lions were not the most happy. Her hus-
band was not a model OF sobriety and
thrift, but, like many a good woman under
TO her church obligations, not neglecting
any wifely. duty at home.
By and by the man died. and she ad-
justed her life to the new condition with
out any abatement of her interest in
church matters. Later on the wife of the
pastor died. also. rendering her to-be-
request him. after a suitable time, TO
marry this. good widow. Days and weeks
months had passed, and yet he had never
revealed to the one next most interested
this request. each-the pastor and the
church work as if oblivious of their re-
spective bereavements. when one day the
widow called on her pastor. as she had
often done in the twelve years of their
acquaintance. After the usual salutations,
she began: Doctor, am perplexed. L
nave 10 make a ueclSlOn IN Il rev Gays on
which much depends. and | know no one
to whom l may. with propriety, SO readily
apply for counsel as to my pastor. who has
SO often listened to my complaints and
given me good advice. Mr.. Blank Ia
wealthy business mani has proposed mar
riage TO me, and he wants an answer in
a lew days. lie is an honorable man, but
he has no sympathy with my religious
views and habits. He may require me to
give up the church work | have taken so
much interest in these many years. A
home is much TO be desired. especially a
home with so many comforts as he offers.
but a home without love and congeniality is
not a model home. Now, what would you
advise me to do in the PREMISES"
The doctor caught his breath, and an
swered with much emphasis: Reject him.
Reject him by all means. Why, | want
you myself. 1t was the dying request of
my late wife that. after a suitable time, L
should marry you, and l have only been
waiting a suitable time to tell you about IL,
which | now do"
1t remained only for the perplexed widow
TO make up her mind to do as her pastor
suggested. She sent her rich sutton adrift,
and after the suitable time had expired
she became the mistress of the parsonage
and they have now been married more than
a month. the happy husband giving the lie
TO the traditions that second marriages are
mere matters of convenience, for he carries
with him a cabinet-size photo Of the bride.
who could not come with him, which he
shows with much satisfaction as he tells
his romantic love story. She is cookbook
ing and no one who ever came under the
T. AoSo "OnueiS tHdt lie shaved
off his whiskers the first week after the
marriage at her mere suggestion. He car
ries also a lone glove OF the bride and
thereby hangs another chapter of this ro-
mantle love affair. He is "A guest at the
hotel and so also is a little army of giddy
girls, some of whom are bordering on
nifty and are grandmothcrs. Whether the
older or the younger were in at the begin
ming l know not. but among them they
stuffed the old doctors pocket which held
the charmed glove full of odd gloves that
were the worse Of wear. so that it was
impossible for the devoted husband To tell
which from tother. That was cruel. but
when n lot OF giddy girls get together there
IS no telling what they won't do.