The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-10-27
it can't be helped.

it can't be helped
Your Uncle Tobey once heard of a
yourg man that fell in love with a
girl. He intended to marry her aa
soon as he got money enough to buy
a cow and a wheel barrow. But he
went away for awhile and the girl
| married another. man. This young
fellow too it to heart just awfuily,
and went to lawyer, who was a
frierd Of his, for advice. The lawy er
told him that the case was a little
complicated, but that he thought
he had pretty good one. He told
the young man that it was principle
in law that the intention constituted
the crime. and that il he had intend
ed to marry her that he was married
just the same as il 20 legal ceremony
| had been perfoi med; that is, he had
c,rnmitted the crime because that
w s his intention, and under the cir
cumstances he could 60 and lick the
other fellow and get his wife. But
he tcld him that there was another
phase of the question which must be
considered that if the girl never in
tended to marry him he was not her
husband, and she would be violating
the law by living with man who
was rot her husband Then the law
yer told him that he had wife be-
cause Of his intention to marry the
girl. but if she didn't intend to mar
ry him she wasn't married and had
no husband, and was single woman.
But as she was his wife she was also
a married woman that he was both
married and single, ard widower be-
cause he had lost his wife-or intend
ed wife. The lawyer then told him
that there other phases to the case
that he need not mention, but that
he thought he could straighten it out
for fee OF $4,000. The young man
| replied that he need not mention the
phases. nor the fee, either, as he
thought he was already enough kinds
OF d-n fool for going off and giving
the other fellow chance to marry
the girl. So tho young man went
home, bathed his head in horse
trough, put on some old clothes, and
went out in the field to cutting his
corn.
When girl wants to marry a
man, or boy, as the case may be,
she "sets her cap" for him. That is,
she begins to look at him through
her eye lashes and let's just the tint
est kind OF smile creep up the side
OF her nose. She laughs at every
thing foolish he says, and begins to
watch the other girls she thinks
might want him. If that kind of
treatment don't put the string around
him she acts little shy and scared, ,
like kitten that wants to make
friends with stranger and don't
know whether it can or not. But
some girls cant wait for all this cere-
mony, and they just catch a fellow
with the dogs and tell him they can't
, do without him.
Girls are good thing to have, yet
too many of them are worse than
not enough, and the supply is about
equal to the demand. Girls are get.
ting. more skittish about marrying,
and they are not skittish enough vet.
1t is better for them to make their
own living than to be tied to beer
keg and a bag Of wind.
When girl hugs a boy she puts
her arms around his neck but when
a boy hugs a girl he puts his arm
around her waist. There amt no.
body old enough to tell when hug.
ging began, and no one will try to
predict when it will stop. Nobody
has ever got up corner" on girls,
but when two or three Of them get
man corDered, he'd just as well haul
out a dollar or two for the preacher.
Girls wear smaller shoes than bows.
A girl with o No. s foot and seven