The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1904-11-11
SOME ODD REASONS
For Choosing Wives Why Some Men
Have Married.

marriage she had the curiosity, dur
ing her husbands temporary alb
sence, to open a wardrobe that he
had always kept religiously fastened
and found therein, to her horror,
two wooden legs, each labelled with
the name Of a lady, carefully slowed
away on one of the shelves. Aghast
with fear she fastened TO the house
Of some mutual acquaintance, to
whom she confdcd her gruesome
discovery, only to be assured that
although the false limbs were those
Of her husbands former wives,
there was no cause for alarm. Her
husband, the friends explained,
had originally welded a one-leggcd
lady, and 50 happy had been the
marriage that on her death he had
vowed never TO mate again save
with wife similarly situated. A
short while afterwards he met a
lady whom as she fulfilled the req
uisite stipulation, he courted and
won. His second marriage which
turned out even more felicitous than
his first venture, had caused him,
on his beloved partners decease, to
renew his former vow, the outcome
Of which had resulted in his present
happy union. This explanation
claimed the wiie's fear and she re-
turned home a happy woman.
4 poctically-minded literary mar
hailing from North Dakota, no
long since married his landlady
who keeps a small hotel in the Lat
in quarter Of Paris. This younI
man, who for eleven years had pai'
not single sou for board or lodg
, ing, was at length taken severely (
, task by his long-suiIcring hostcs
: who threatened summary epction
Such cold prospect was little 4
hi- liking, - h. proposed To canes
his hill by marriage. The lady va
willing and the twain were mad
, one.
Weight was taken into considers
ton in the wooing II Miss Plumb
a iairand Eat damscl of Huntington
j. Connecticut, whose father promis,
to present any eligible youth wl
r should h. willing To take her {,
wife five dollars for hcrcvcry pour
of avoirdupois. Upon asccrtainil
that the lady's weight was fol
hundred pounds, q Mr.. lIanl
promptly closed with the offer NJ
!, shortly aitcrwari, lcd his sub.ta
tial bride 10 the altar,
h. Herbert Spencer, in AN Ant
biography" tells 81 gcntlcm
IS. who, having adopted a lny Will
view Ia educating him after q :,
h. tenn " his own, found that he h
underestimate the magnitude
,s. the undertaking Hcthcrciorc e.
alnut for q wife, whom he <.
rs clearly tn understand that his pr
cipal reason Tor marriage was To
y. curc q tit person to rear the lpy.
cs, \ gentleman residing in On,
the southern suburbs II loud,
c., who i. au ardent dcvotcc II !
lately met ,omc while sincc a
as, low collcctorm q lady, who,ralb
contained ccrlam mr specimens
ly. much coveted To obtain them
the suggested exchange, purchase
.lid vain At la,t, IN desperation
made an offer Vt hi, hand. 1t
mi aryypicd. and tlr lady and
mar .,amp. passed into his pr'
'ih SION.
john Henry Mocdlcr, che astu
myr who dicd ut Hanover, !
land, in 1874, whu>C ~, study
the moon, cnOmtcp,l q fellow.
''''S biologist in the pcrou VI the !
3 " Wiuc. the wife VI q State Coun,
les who owned a wonderful mod
'cm' his ayoritc luminary, which
eek herself had fashioned out II ,
cN'S To gain possession of this glols'
lon' Macdlcr's sole aim, and as the
uar. thy councillor being still alivv
shed could no, cspousc the lady, he