The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-04-14
|0LD FOR A DECEIYER
MAN OF EIGHTY is SUED FOR
BREACH OF PROMISE,
He Says Fact Is Complimentary, but
Denies Having Promised to
Wed Widow.

Eighty-year-old Samuel L. Myers of
| S1S Lincoln place, Brooklyn. hadn't re-
covered from his surprise at being sued
for breach of promise by 4S-year-old
Mrs. Charlotte +. Law, a good-looking
widow, when he was seen at his home.
But after a good nights sleep and a few
hours communing with himself in tho
springlike sunshine of his Sunday morn
ing walk, he mad begun t. see some sill
very lining to the sudden clSud that de-
scended on him. Mr.. Myers is estimat-
ed to be worth 100000. He married
his second wife in 1906.
when a man OF so is sIed for breach
of promise, no matter how innocent he
is, there is, still some spice in life for
him. Anyway, he knows he isn't dead
YETI Myers said as he came into the
cozy parlor decorated by his artist Wife's
pictures. "Of course l never promised
to marry Mrs. Law. l never made love
to her. l was just nice to her. But it
is a compliment to a man of 80 to be
sued by q woman for breach Of promise.
| Pat McCarren and Tom Platt both
amounted to something. They got
| sued"
Mrs. Law, who is a very successful
real estate dealer at 1864 Busnwlck
avenue, says that Mr.. Myers not only
was engaged to marry her in 1903, but
that he wrote her 200 letters, in one of
which appeared an original poem en-
titled the Wisdom of a Widower." Six
lines of the verses read, with a little
editing:
These youthful marriages are bubbles;
From first to last they make you troubles.
/ seek for nothing of the sort
You bet your life I'm not thus caught.
Experienced people just like you
Ara of tha kind that're good and true.
Mrs. Law says he took her to the
alters, bought her dinners, entertained
her and her children at Rockaway beach
and set the day for the marriage. Then
he went off and married a school teacher
from Massachusetts.
Mr.. Myers bluslled rosily when con-
fronted with the above poem. He said
he really wasn't guilty of such genius.
/ He could make a clam chOwder that was
an epic poem, could serve a bluetish that
| had in it the delights of many perfect
days, and in his time had talked con
vincing politics, but writing poetry had
never been within the scope of his posi-
bilities.
Il didn't write that poetry he said.
II admit that | nave known Mrs. Law,
and that once when | was eating dinner
in, a restaurant, and she came in and
commenced to talk real estate to me, /
invited her to dinner. Yes, | paid for
the dinner. But my wife was living
then, and l never thought to find out
MY rule of life has always been to
be nice to everybody and don't do any
one a wrong. l have made a little
money in my time, but l won't pay five
cents to Mrs. Law.
MY first wife was a fine woman, q
| New Highlander, and after she died and
7 became a bit lonely what was more
,1+,,o +1nr fbnf T chAI11 T1nppx IN
other New England woman when |
found that she really loved me for what
l was, and not for my houses?
Never ask a woman's advice about
buying a house unless she is your wife.
| asked Mrs. Laws advice about a house
and she said. i wouldn't marry a maj
unless he bought me a detached house.
l wasn't asking her about marriage. |
was talking real estate.
My advice TO any young man would
be to keep on working in the business
that he is in, always trying to advance
himself of course. Any honest business
is good if you work hard enough. And
when you are 80 perhaps you can read
without glasses.
Mrs. Law told me one day that she
had a cold and / advised her to take
some q~uinine. / wouldn't call that q
love letter-not in the years back there
when | vas of the love letter age. But
perhaps times have changed! Somebody
says Don't worry. Probably the worst
isn't true 1t won't help matters any if
the worst is true. If you take care OF
your health when you are young you
won't know how to worry when you are
Did. Health is a matter of the mind as
much as of the stomach"
Mrs. Law is a member of Plymouth
church and says she is prosecuting the
case more for vindication than with a
desire to collect the money. She asks
$40 900 damages.-New York World.