The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-04

~ 7 USED TO SIT AND HOLD THAT wIDDERS s
.ss HAND IN THE MOONLIGHT
for the last six months. For why?
NJ Because Jim was counting q widder
woman.
"a 81 am living with my fourth wife, as
sA I told you the other night and not one
of them was a widder woman when
married her, but I've had some little
experience with widders jest the same.
"a widder woman is wife whose
1 husband has died and left her free to
play the devil with men for ten miles
around -A~s
"She hain't sure whether she wants
X to marry ag'in or not. but she is sure
that she wants to make a fool of
J about twenty men before she does 1t.
"a widder woman Is like spider
in web. She is waiting for victims
to come along
"She's a steel trap set on a sheep
trail. You are slouching along and
N thinking of nothing in particular when
h you suddenly put your foot in it, and
N, there you are.
"a widder woman may not have
smiled at her husband for year pre-
IL vlous to his death, but four weeks aft
erward she's tittering and giggling
with tin peddler
''She may have fallen down in a
faint when they buried her husband,
but the next sewing machine man that
came along found her singing.
"Yes, In my cOurting around I court
ai ed widder women as well as the other
nr kind. / thought 1t might be jest as
well to find widder with a farm
"a. and plenty Of live stock as to take n
~ woman with nothing but what she
. stood In. ! found that widder. There
was hundred acres of land, good
house and barn, and the horses cattle,
sheep and hogs made my mouth wa
% ter. ,t
~ II didn't let on that I'd come court
Ing / was in the tombstone business
81 then, and told her I'd called to see
81 about stone for her husband. | ~
v, scribed the one I'D put up for my wife
and when we got to telling each other
how lonesome we was we both agreed
we'd never marry ag'in.
Tt That's where we both lied and
Z knew we were lying.
She Shed Tears.
@@1 "The widder shed tears as she talk.
shed of the many virtues of the late de-
W parted, and Of course told her that
what was her loss was his gain. That's
always a good thing to ring in. She
said that If ever / came that way
~ ag'in she'd be happy to have me caD
and down I'm her heart she knew that
'tlPd be back in about three days. was.
made the excuse that / wanted to
|sbuy COW, and she pretended to be
awfully surprised to see me, but both
Of us were lying ag'in.
"That widder woman drawed me on
'ssin fifty different ways, but mostly by
tears when she spoke of the departed
-HI never saw tears In her eyes that ]
= didn't want to put my arm around her
.a'waist and wipe them away. She said
that man was an oak tree and women
only q willer and that 1t was natural
for the willer to want to lean ag'in
'the oak. She pitied me In my loneli-
ness and pitied her, and at last 1t
got so that | dared to swat skeeter
that had settled on the back of her
ISneck. Say, now, jest as much calker
lated to marry that widder as do to
get quart of ,nolasses In this jug
after the mail IL distributed. After
e1had courted her for six weeks l had
no more doubt Of her saying yes than
II have that Hiram Baker over there
ought to be ashamed Of the old hat
he's wearing.
Zone day l decided to settle things.
4 drove over, and she had the same
'<smils for mo until begun to talk busi-
ness. Then she said she guessed I'd
made mistake In the house and hint