Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-02-01
GREEN s WIFE TO
COME FROM WEST
Son Of Hetty Ready for a Leap
Year Girl but Won { Marry
Clothes Horse.

San Francisco. Jan. M--Edward How.
land Robinson Green OF Terrell. Texas son
OF Mrs. Hetty Green. has arrived here
from the East. Colonel Green. who Is a
banker and bachelor. has personallv
heraIded himself as tho great hope Of
the leap year girl. and admits he has his
DIG hearts strings well attuned ,or
Cupid's flashes.
she is to be western girl meaning
that II the leap year finds Colonel Green
With his matrimonial prize she Will hava
come out Of the West. free from what
the colonel terms the folies Of eastern
social life, a real type Of west.rn
womanhood. such az illustrator Varri-
son Fisher was eagerly hunting for a
year ago in California.
a girl with a ''slashing head" we'll
poised on good pair Of shoulders n
broad, straight forehead eyes well sepa-
rated. brown hair and rugged counte
nance. a countenance that is not wor,,
by social cares, but is frightened t,y
accommodating responsibilities Of hons
life
WON'T WE'D CLOTHES HORSE
I'm going to marry a woman nor a
words. No tangled corset strings for
him. No continuous seasons Of social
functions, late suppers and the like. Ho
wants a wife who can carefully mother
a family of children.
Add domesticity TO Artist Fishers type
OF western woman and you have the cor
rect idea Of Colonel Green's IDEAS.
Colonel Green is accompanied BY
Charles L. Pierson, an attorney Of New
York. and his secretary, w B. Mar.
shall.
I'm here to look over conditions
declared Colonel Green in response to
p query.
Financial or matrimonial?" ventured
his interviewer.
Both replied the colonel
Then he was asked about the report
about his reported purpose 10 leave
Texas and live in New York. and be-
fore he could reply the interviewer
added
and would that indicate that YOU
might make your matrimonial selection
from the East"
The colonel carefully framed his an
swer
Say, did you ever hear Of a. Cali
fornian abandoning the West for tho
East? OF course not Well, I'm like q
Californian. belong to the West
Texas is my home
NEW YORK WOMEN IGNORANT
New York women do not seem to
know the real meaning of marriage.
They marry for a home and live out
OF IT,
children are the last thing they
want. They are the very last word of
tho useless II they can have beauti.
ful clothes and look fashionable then
do not worry about domestic ac-
complishments
and sew, and. holy horrors. they would
deny that their good old homely grand
mothers did wash clothes, too
IF fashionable New York woman
went up FIFTH avenue with a ring in her
nose the jewellers could not finish noss
rings fast enough to supply the demand.
They want to peacock about restau-
rants and theatres for the purpose Of
being seen by men who are not their hus.
bands"
Colonel Green's idea of a wholesome
woman Is that her education should be
more along domestic lines. and he quail
fies 1t in saying:
Women should marry with the idea OF
having children and caring for home
children should be brought up like
chickens and healthy pups, where there is
grass and plenty of dirt
And there is plenty of grass and dir.
In the West" added the colonel He
laughed at the suggestion that the lean
year might seal his fate
1T may" said he. I'm but human II
should run across woman I thought
fulfilled my ideas. I'd marry her. For all
we know YOU may have that woman here.
Texas IL my home, but I have no dislike
for your Golden State. We're all western
ers"