, 1912-11-13

Many mas De0n ifOF6 70 uIlHh W ION0,
and many has been froze off it similar, My
old friend, Mrs. Build, has told me with
tears in her eyes how her husband signed off
for her sake. 1t only turned out to be tenn
pora1y, but it don't do to expect too much
here below, and she amt what you'd call
biooted about Il drink for herself, though al
ways within bounds.
Well, that's how it is with love-you new
er know which way it's going to break. It's
like u sert of force as may blow the kitchen
boiler through your d~raWlng-room windows
aud lift the roof off, or it may turn into the
electric light and brighten your happy home
for years. In my exp 4rience, though not
LAYING down no law for others, | should say rs
it were mostly boiler.
Yes, [ were engaged regular five times
afore | were twenty-slX, and then went aud
married the wrong man. 1t were mostly
done to spite II friend Of mine, but suppose
/ must have seen Il something or other Ill
him. Upon my soul, l think there's some
girls as ought to be kept on the chain, to
save them from doing themselves Il / J jury.
I were that KIND OF girl, and that's nov |
become Mrs. Arthur Eggat.
He'd got II nasty, measly y, whining kind
of temper as used to drive me near frantic,
aud for meanness you wouldn't find his
w III u htIIO' Hh'3 ~ hC NAAoNj
which he didn't do for eleven years, it was
because he would eat something as ought to
have been throwed away. Otherwise, he were
q good man, looked after the children, at
tended chapel regular, an left me a sight
better off nor that | am now. A man like
that would have been II lesson to some peo-
pie, but it was rs if [ couldn't learn nothing.
| hadn't had but five months holiday
after putting EggAt in Kensd Green
when [ made my second mistake, which was
Murphy, How any woman with the sense
that | has now could ever have been the fool
what [ was then is a fair conundrum. He
took all Id got, did Jim Murphy, and he
mistreated me cruel when in liquor, which
were whenever he could get it. He lef; me
three times, but always came back. a lazier
man never stepped, unless the fancy took
him, as did happen 80 metimes. I've knOwel
him to work through the whole of a August
Bunk Holiday, though the month as followed
were no treat. His line were the cabinet
making, and he were known to be clever ut
it when he could be brought to take Il inter
est. Well, 50 things went on till l were fifty
one, aud thea one winter his lungs got
pueumltic, and that finished HIM.
Since then I've enjoyed my w~idowhood,
md I'm going on for sixty-nine. | buried
lOht hlh'tO "NN L ' . - LII 90 SOlo NNOlilS
we'll in Canada. They all three sends me
home nothing Il week regular as the clock.
Takes after their dear father, they does. If
[ wants money I've still got to scratch
around aud earn it. Well, there's my record
for you that's what love has done for me
an if Im a living testimonial | don't Look it.
Dare say [ shall be told as I brought it all
on myself. The worlds full of people what
has brought things on themselves, and it's
very enjoyable to remind them of it. Sup
pose l were to start life agtin with my pres
ent experience, | shouldn't make them mis-
takes again I should make another set as
near like them as no matter. That's where
it is. Loves q thing whore experience don't
help you, and the best advice is no more
good than y sick headache,
When a girls in love with a man, nothing
he does is wrong. II he stole u penny from
a Blind man and bought poison for his moth
OF with it, she'd say it was only his high
spirits, and she made no doubt there were
faults on both siles. Contrariwise, if n
girl amt in love with the mqn what's after
her, then nothing he does is right! If she
were told that he'd risked his life to save