Evening journal., 1910-11-07
DRIVER NEEDS
WIFE TO CHEER
Myers With Money and
MOther-in-Law Willing
to Take Bride
MUST MEASURE
UP TO" MODEL A"

NEW YORK, Nov. 7-Singing softly
TO himself as his funeral coach slow
ly ascended East One Hundred and
Forty-fifth street, toward York's
livery stable, Thomas j. Myers, Wild
over. aged "a, good-looking and so
lonesome he can't eat, told all his
troubles and his hopes as reason
for writing to a New York newspaper
to help him find a wife. Here is
what he sung
o, give me wife that can fry the
chops brown,
That can wash and can sew and
can darn,
Who will stay home O. nights and not
burn up the town
With the money I've earned at the
barn.
There's a lot of them floating
around Third avenue, from the Har-
lem river to Yonkers," said Myers,
mournfully, as he slid down off the
box and threw his reins to a groom.
But they are no good They don't
know how to be on the level Maggie
that was my wife-was a girl of your
heart. She was a dandy. all right, but
she died about year ago I've got
big fiat all furnished. just as she
left it, at 4S7 East One Hundred and
Forty-fourth street, with a piano and
patent washtub. But I'm all alone
there with my mother-in-law, who is
sickly and feeble. / need some one
to look after me and the other things.
Think there's a chance?
She must be able to cook and be
pretty. She must be kind to yours
truly when he comes in from funerals.
Il is then / need some one to cheer
me up. Geel but sometimes I do get
blue coming back from cemeteries.
Il don't want any high-flier who
gads, but one that's sensible. like Mag
/ gle, my first wife, was She liked II
all right. for ] was good to her I
make good wages and have worked
/ for Mr.. York a long time. / have a
good farm up in Sullivan county, have
$4,000 in bank and my life is insured
! for more than that. HOnestl | am
worth more dead TO the girl who takes
chance and marries me than I am
worth alive. And If she's the right
kind. I'd die for her. at that Any
nationality will do. but l prefer an
American.
Here's about the style that would
suit me. / call her my Model A
girl. ! can't tell exactly where l got
the picture, but it shows her In the
kitchen getting dinner ready. Maybe
that's a little too fine-stronger than
could get away Without I'd have
to try it., anyhow.
Il want her dark or light, light pre-
/ ferred; plump, medium height, about
%. years old and weighing about 14C
pounds"
At this point Meyers took out of hii
pocketbook a post card photograph o
girl pretty enough to have her pic
lures taken for nothing. Then he pu
it back. signing.
when I'm not looking at that pic
ture 1 think she would do, but wheI
] look at it l have my doubts. Maybe
she'd be a little too frisky Thinl
sc?"
Meyers employer, F. S. York, de
cIared the wifeseeker was the bes
man he had ever employed.
IF he wants another wife he'll ge
her." said Mr.. York. And he viii
be good to her. He's steady anC
saves his money It would be piece
: of good luck for an honest girl"
At Meyers home his mother-in-law
Mrs. Margaret Won Alinda. smiled ap
prOvingly when his aims were dis
cussed.
"Of course I'd like to see Tom mar
ried again." she said, because / an
too old to care for his home properly
He was so good to Maggie that | know
he would be good to another. l wis
him luck, too"
, But neither she nor his associat
know the original of the Model A
girl.