The San Francisco call., 1904-04-24
Migration and MatrimOny
Fable for the Foolish

stock to make q securities company
worth while. However, she let him
down as easily as she could by assur-
ing him that when all the other men
in sight were dead or married she
might have time TO consider his offer.
1t was the same all the way down
the line until Harold began to think
that he was being squeezed by q cor
ner in the matrimonial market All the
girls who were on the floor seemed to
have all they could handle and Harold
wasn't able to dispose OF any Of his
holdings, even at a great sacrifice
Meanwhile he was growing old and
whatever one may think about the
truth Of the assurance that there are
always a few mora fish Of good quality
In the market, 1t is an undoubted fact
that in the course Of time the bait tends
to become q trihs stale and dishgured.
1t had become q standing joke with the
eligible female persons of Stubbins-
Vile by this time that Harold was %
be knocked down as often as he was
set up and It became kind of game
with them. Some OF them were coll
lecting proposals from the poor unfor-
tunate and every time they got to-
fights they would exchange records and
the winner would receive a prize. One
girl had seventeen proposals from Har-
old Ia one month and had the promise
Of two or three more when he could get
around to her.
Harold had started out with the idea
that q man in an orchard should be
careful to select only the choicest
peaches. AS he progressed down the
different rows and found all the desir-
able fruit growing too high for him he
changed his mind and was willing to
take anything he could reach But the
case here was as bad as on the first
trees that he struck-all were clinging
too tightly TO the parent bough for
Harold and he could not find even one
small overripe peach on the ground
When any dropped he always happened
to be down at the other end Of the row
and some one else invariably came
along and picked It UP before he could
get in sight Of the tree.
At last, in sheer desperation, he be-
thought him that there were other
orchards in the world. where persist
ent gentleman might be abe to do
something without ladder. So he an
in Stubbinsville and proceeded to HE
him to far Rhode Island TO see what
he could do In a field where the ground
was not so closely worked What <ol-
lowed is a sad commentary on the
taste OF Stubbinsville, or Of Rhode ISL
and He who has the courage to read
this moving tale may take his choice.
At any rate, HarolJ hadn't been In
A. o,~1 hof he huA
gathered a peach from tree two hun
dred years old. To add to the discom-
future of the Stubbinsville contingent
this particular peach which had fallen
into Harold's basket had a gold lining
and al attachment of railroad bonds
and oil stocks that made the best Stub
binsville variety look like last years
crab apple.
Harold lives in ease and in Fifth
avenue mansion and now when he goes
back to Stubbinsville he gives away
five dollar bills with the same ease and
grace of manner with which he used to
give himself away. It should be noted
further that the Stubbinsville girls are
wondering how 1t was that they were
so slow to find out Harold's good
points and are inventing new terms of
feminine profanity TO apply to them
selves when they reflect on how easily
and how many times they might have
been Mrs Harold.
All of which goes to show that while
prophet may be without matrimony
in his own country he has only to step
over the State line to find matrimony
and profit too.
Copyright. 1904, by Albert Britt.