The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-05-13
PROMISED To
WE'D IN TWO YEARS
Campaign Pledge Of an illinois
Man !. Beginning a.
Nuvz~ 1ln
MRa ROOSEVELT a Mppe.-
e. NJ. Burst of Sycamore, ILL.,. Has .
House Ready for a Bride Whenever
He Can Find One to Install
in It as Mistress.

Sycamore, ILL.,. special: E. NJ. Burst,
The nominee on the republican tlekt1-
for states attorney in this county, has
agreed to become a married man withira
two years.. He received the nominations
on this condition.
This promise is the only Iatfan ot
the campaign" he said afterward, .'an2
I've yet got the reckoning day coming
with the fellow that made me promixe-
You see, it's this way I promised to
do 1T as soon as possible, and i don't
see how l can accomplish 1t so quick
ly." He repeatedly laughed loud and.
heartily, proving that he saw some.
humor in the proposition.
I'm in a bad boat" he repeated. ~hux
I've done the best 1 could. I've prom
1sed if elected to make good politically.
even though / become distracted in 3cse
affairs and lose out on the promise ].
think love II not suitability should be,
the basis of matrimony. / do not think
it necessary for a girl to be Il colleges
graduate to make the ideal wife for e..
college bred man. Every gtrg that.
graduates from Vassar doesn't always
know all she might or give the greatest
inspiration to q young man needing "a
helpmate.
The Finance Phase.
The financial question is one good
reason why a young lawyer can't afford
to get married, but the ideal Woman
VIII SldKe All IOT the man Sne iCTSS~
The woman who is Intellectual TO 1hs
exclusion of home interests and ac-
conlplishments is not my idea OF "a wife.
l refer to the publicly acknowledged
Intellectual woman who is fatal tn
felicity in married life. She lacks these,
qualities absolutely necessary TO the
purest happiness and COMPREHENSIVE.
The woman who keeps her house weis.
cares for her children and lonags her
husband more frequently brings to tfae
home the cheer and help that inspire
to higher ideals"
idea was one solely of domestic vissnae.
He hastily explained that he bad been
misunderstood. II believe t~hurungsly
in the up-to-date girl. The girl who
konws everything and loves home best"
There was a sort of silent Inference
that Mr.. Burst admires that woman
who is wise enough to remember ssaa
too wise to forget that she las a clever.
husband.
Mrs. Roosevelt a, Model.
Mrs. Roosevelt appeals to me as a
model of wifely perfection continued
Mr.. Burst. When it became, appcIeaaa.
that her husband was to become pIesi-
dent her first thought was not OF ans
public honor, but, rather, how her honas.
Interests should be Neither marred rnss
severed"
The ancestral home to which IN,
NOulU lake HIS Wlle Is d IfltiIutIaS
spot at the corner of Main and Ottawa
streets. Here his legal tendencies
grew. Here a been the garden of
his thoughts, where he has plun6ereIt
through the years from gorgeous IL
TO dark perhaps" Within are the walls
that have echoed to the tread of all his,
youthful ms and outs. Here his friends
have watched him grow in favor dus-
ing the years of his s~tudentship. ana
now-well. now it is here that his
friends find him to congratulate. tie.
cajole, to banter and to extof
Many insinuations are whispered thar
the skeletons of broker hearts hang liz
several De Kalb county closets, victims
of a youthful Burst, but the state al
torney nominee sits in his library. calm
and serene, looking a perfect martyr
to political promises and the matri-
monial sugar barrel.
Il little thought when / was u yos1alg-
ster playing in the back yard nnGl
dreaming of Susie Jane that teelag
there would be n cardiac affection TO
gether with it's antidote O. on a time
limit, and q POLITICAL job in the ',al.-
ance." he remarked. ~