Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1913-07-02
SOUL MATE QUEST
BY ADVERTISING
WRECKS TWO
Coconino Girl Objects To
Husband Who Won't
Use Water.

WILLIAMS, June 30.-"A busted
Sunday honeymoon, or the romance
of want ad. marriage" is the title
of Miss Margaret Benninghoff, a
a comedy young woman late of De
troit, but now a guest of the home
of Sam Miller, adjoining Williams on
the west, has in mind for a short
story she is contemplating writing
and submitting to Editor Box of the
Ladies Home Journal for the advice
TO girls column.
Legally Miss Benninghoff is Mrs
Arthur Young. Colby Miss Ben
ninghoff that was, and who is
determined to be again, asserts she
is the victim of one OF the most
clever letter writers in the country.
MY romance ended when Arthur,
l mean Mr.. Young, refused to take
a bath just after we were married
at the Housewife ranch week ago
Sunday" declared Mrs. Young. It
was shattered into bits when he re-
fused to even wash his hands and
face, or if he did l discovered no
evidence he had even made a stab
at it. The romance crumbled into
dust and ashes when l discovered
half an inch OF dandruff in his hair
and he disdainfully refused to listen
10. a suggestion of remedy"
Its a case of two people being
mismated," is the way Young ex-
plains matters" l guess Miss Ben
ninghoff and 1 were looking for soul
mates through half and half con-
.ventional channel and trusted too
much in a want ad."
The woman in the case is about
TO bring suit for annulment OF the
marriage through Attorney George
w. Harden, OF Williams Young
declares he will make no contest as
he has no desire to coerce any
woman into wifely duties against
her will.
Evidently we both made a mis-
take and the best way out of it is
the quickest way" said Young.
1t all began when a friend of
Miss Benn;nghoff who married a
resident of Arizona returned to De-
troit for visit and told a glowing
story of the romantic State and its
stalwart, romantic men.
The description of my friend
surely got my goat" said Mrs.
Young, who is seemingly not at all
downcast, over her shattered ro
nance" In a spirit of fun | wrote
TO the sheriff of Coconino county,
telling him if he ran across any fine
young man out this way who wanted
a good housekeeper for a wife, to
tell him to write to me. Instead
of doing so he put want ad in
the paper Well, l got replies
enough to that ad, but none of the
letters were like Arthur's. Nice
name, too, Arthur Young, and he
sure knows how to peddle the bull,
as you people out here say, on letter
paper. l didn't have a chance after
his first letter. He told me TO wire
collect whenever Il felt like it, and
say, | was so tickled to death with
the thought was getting real
prince | let them collect-at my
end.
We'll when | got here and saw
him-I had a lot of misgivings all
right, but | was told if we weren't
married right away the white slavery
probers might get me, so Judge
housewife pronounced the fatal
word / made up my mind to make
the best of il, but II wasn't one hour !
after we were married l knew l was
trying to face the impossible. | can
put up with the ugliest man on
earth, if he is man. but there are
some things woman cannot toll
crate. It's all over and l have
fallen in love with the country. just
TO think OF i'll was looking for a
tall pine OF Coconino, like some
of those cattlemen and others de-
scribed themselves. 1t was just
like some moving pictures l have
SEEN"