The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-08-18
How to Get
A Husband
BY LOUISE B. CUMMINGS

Its very easy to say git married
Aunt Jane, but how's girl to git mar.
ried onless some one axes her|
Management, my dear; management
had to manage to git my husband
but l done it."
"HowY'
"Well, I'll tell you. SEEM it's you,
though / never tole any one before il
my life. / wanted husband, and
wanted John. couldn't tell him /
| wanted him, so ! 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.
"One spring mornin' went by where
he was plowin. 'Mornin. Mr. Griggs,'
says r. 'Mornln', Miss Haskell says
he. 'Beginnin' the seasons work. says
T. Yes says he, I'm startin'.' I don't
see. says /, how you git on with your
housekeepin' when you're at work on
your farm. What dye do when you
go in after hard days work and
don't find no supper ready?' 4 get the
supper myself says he"
II 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 | blunder like that? didn't do
nothin' of the kind. / 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
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 |
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
Berksvile that might suit you. said.
She's a little older n you and has a
couple o. children, but mebbe you
wouldn't want wilder 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 Ii In. He was thinkin' about the
wife I'd put into bis head.
eff you wouldn't want a wilder
and reckon the children might bother
you: they're always kickin' up racket
In a house, know a young woman
that might suit you over to Hilton
crossroads. She amt purity, havin' red
hair and freckles. besides bein' kind
o. loose jointed. but she's mighty strong
and kin do heap o. work
Reckon. he said, kind o. mourn
full, III have TO take what / kin git
"'Oh, no, you won't" says l. There's
nice girls that would be glad to git you;
only you'd have TO so somewheres else
for 'em. SEEM those about here are
taken up
II amt heerd o. your takin' up
with no young man, Miss Haskell
says he.
"'Oh, /! don't count. None o the
young men would want me-
lis that 500 he says. lookin' kind
O. surprised.
NO says I. I'm not the kind of a
girl most young men would fancy. |
I've noticed that men maturity take TO
a different kind Of girl from me. Be
sides. I'm needed at home. Dad
get on without me-
- .ir,f ha'e rxfddaror hn might
get wife to supply your place
"'Oh. dad. he couldn't get on with no
one else except me. I've tux care of
his house ever since nav died and a
long time before that. and any one
else comm in to do the work would
list set him crazy. You see, dad can't
bear a spot on pillowcase or sheet
Or cobweb anywhere or dust accu-
under the furniture. And
he's awful particular what he eats,
Dein' inclined to indigestion. / know
list how to make the kind o. bread he
likes and mullins and griddecakes,
and, as to cookin' his meat, ! never
Try 1t up like some persons, but al
ways leave the juice in it. Then when
{ comes to apple or huckleberry pies
lad says I'm the only one can make
em to suit him. Suit him. mind you.
don't say could suit anybody else
"Well, | could see that his mouth
vas waterin' for some o. them things
ID told him about so | asks him how
led like to come over for dinner the
iext Sunday and try some of 'em. He
aid he'd like to mighty well.
That's as far as ! wanted to go
light then. So | passed on with
Mr.. Griggs. We eat dinner I
alf an hour after church is out Sun
ay. Goodby.'
There's no use tellin' you the rest :
this story. | made beginnin' that
7ould work shore. cause l attacked
i'm through his stomach. Some girls |
Tould "a talked soft; some would "a {
ried. Cryin' is the best way to bring
man down next TO feedin' him we'll {
ut I'd rather rely on the stomach I
nan on sympathy myself. but each s
Irl must decide for herself. Now
on go and experiment on Ben Hath 7
way. / know you want him, and If 6
o other girl has got ahead OF you =
on can get him-if you work it right" I
Marthy experimental on Mr. Hath 4
way with success. She didn't follow S