The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-03-15
How to Get
A Husband
By LOUISE B. CUMMINGS

you'd ought to git married. Your IA
ther is liable to be taken from you at H
any time, and he amt got a red cent II
to leave you"
TITS very easy to say git married.
Aunt Jane, but how's a girl to git mar
ried onless some one axes herr"
Management, my dear; management.
I had to manage to git my husband,
but done it,
Howl
"Well, I'll tell you, seem it's you.
though l never tole any one before in
my life. | wanted a husband, and |
wanted John. couldn't tell him |
wanted him. so l told him the next |
best thing He wasn't thinkin' o git |
tin married. so far as / knew. He was |
hardworkin' young man. attendin |
TO his duties and tryin' to git his farm
in good payin' condition.
Zone spring mornin' went by where |
! he was plowin'. 'MOrnin', Mr.. Griggs,'
/ says I. 'Mornin', Miss Haskell says
! he. 'Beginnin' the seasons workY says
I. Yes says he, I'm startin' I don't
see,' says l, how you git on with your
hOusekeepin' when you're at work on
: u y
go in after a hard days work and
don't find no supper ready" I get the
supper myself says he
Il see. Aunt Jane. Then you told
him he needed wife, and he asked
you to marry him"
Laws a-massy, child. you don't sup
pose I blunder like that? l didn't do
nothin' Of the kind. l jist looked at
him as though my heart was breakin'
for sympathy for him. Then he said
he'd been thinkin' that if he had a
wife TO do the inside work and the
milkin' and the rest O the dairy work
it would be easier on him. / told him
l reckOned he'd have TO go into the
next county for one. since. so far as 1
knew, all the girls wO'th havin' near
by was spoken for. He looked kind o
sorro'ful at that He was leanin' on
his pillow handle and lookin' off over
the field and didn't say nothin'.
There's a wilder woman over to
> Berksville that might suit you I said.
She's a little older n you and has a
couple O. children. but mebbe you
wouldn't want a widder.' He didn't
say nothin' to this. only jist looked on
over the fields. The mornin was kind
o springlike. and the country was look
in fresh, but knowed he wasn't tax
in il in. He was thinkin' about the
wife I'd put into his head
If you wouldn't want 4 wilder
and I reckon the children might bother
you; they're always kickin' up a racket
In a house, know a young woman
O. that might suit you over to Hilton
Pc crossroads. She amt purity, havin' red
- hair and freckles. besides bein' kind
n o loose jointed, but she's mighty strong
and kin do a Aeap O work
Reckon he said, kind O mourn.
u full. I'll have to take what | kin git
, "'Oh. no. you won't" says |. There's
nice girls that would be glad to git you
If only you'd have to 60 somewheres else
2 for 'em, seem those about here are
n taken up
: ~ amt heerd o your takin' W
l with no young man, Miss Haskell.
says he.
" Ion, 1! I don't count. None o th'
young men would want me-
&, lis that So? he says. lookin' kline
r. O. surprised
is No says l. I'm not the kind of {
Or girl most young men would fancy
+" I've noticed that men maturity take L
a different kind of a girl from me. Be
" sides, I'm needed at home. DaC
couldn't get on without me-
Seem hos q widderer he nigh
nj get a wife to supply your place
NJ "'Oh. dad. he couldn't get on with n
r. one else except me. I've TUX care o
ltr# u6
al long time before that. and any on
lis else comm in to do the work woul,
jist set him crazy. You see, dad can
~ bear a spot on a pillowcase or a shee
n. or a cobweb anywhere or dust accU
mulatin' under the furniture. An
Sc he's awful particular what he eats
IT, bein' inclined TO indigestion. l knOy
mt jist how TO make the kind o bread b
i1 likes and mullins and griddlecake,
ny and. as to cookin' his meat, | neve
-I dry it up like some persons, but a
ways leave the juice in it. Then whe
it comes to apple or huckleberry pie
dad says I'm the only one can max
EN- to suit him. Suit him. mind you
as l don't say l could suit anybody else.
ra- well, l could see that his mout
of was waterin' for some O. them thing
dl- I'd told him about, so | asks him no
m. he'd like to come over for dinner th
al next Sunday and try some of 'em. II
said he'd like to mighty well.
That's as far as | wanted to e
in right then. So | passed on with
he 'Mornin', Mr.. Griggs. We eat Dime
ed. half an hour after church is out SUI
Q. day. GOodby.'
There's no use tellin' you the re-
o this story. l made beginnin' tn;
would work shore, cause l attacke
tl, him through his stomach. Some CIR
hi would "a talked soft; some would .
the cried. Cryin' is the best way to briI