Evening journal., 1913-04-11
How to Get
A Husband
BY LOUISE B. CUMMINGS

you'd ought to git married Your IA
Their is liable TO be taken from you at
any time. and he amt got a red cent
TO leave you
ITS very easy to say git married."
Aunt Jane. but bows a girl TO git mar
ried onless some one axes herT
Management. my dear: management
I had to manage to git my husband.
but done IT,"
"How?"
"Well. I'll tell you. seem it's you.
though I never tole any one before in
my life. wanted a husband. and l
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 bis duties and tryin' to git his farm
In good payin' condition.
zone spring mornin' went by where
he was plowin. 'Mornin'. Mr.. Griggs.'
says l. 'Mornin'. Miss Haskell. says
he. 'Beginnin' the seasons work? says
I. 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 a hard days work and
don't find no supper readyY 4 get the
supper myself says be-"
81 see Aunt Jane. Then you told
him he needed a 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 fist looked at
him as though my heart was breakin'
for sympathy for him. Then he said
he'd been thinkin' that II be had a
wife to do the inside work and the
milkin' and the rest O the dairy work
II would be easier on him. told him
] reckOned he'd have 10 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.
sorroful at that He was leanin' on
his pillow handle and lookin' of over
the field and didn't say nothin'
There's a wilder woman over TO
Berksville that might suit you said.
She's a little older n you and has a
couple o. children. but mebbe you
wouldn't want a wilder He didn't
say nothin' to this. only jlst looked on
over the fields. The mornln' was kind
O. springlike. and the country was look.
In fresh. but knowed he wasn't TAX
I'm il In. He was thinkin' about the
wife I'd put into bis head
IF you wouldn't want a wilder
and reckon the children might bother
you; they're always kickin' up a racket
IN a house, know young woman
that might suit you over 10 Hilton
crossroads. She amt purity. havin' red
hair and freckles. besides bein' kind
o. loose jointed. but she's mighty strong
and kin do a heap o. work
Reckon he said. kind o. mourn
full. III have 10 take what kin git
"'Oh. no. you WON'T says I There's
nice girls that would be- glad TO git you;
only you'd have TO go somewheres else
for 'em. seem those about here are
taken up
- amt heerd o. your takin' up
with no young man. Miss HASKELL
says be.
"'Oh. l. don't count None o the
young men would want me-
lis that so? be says lookin' kind
O. surprised.
mo says I. I'm not the kind OF a
girl most young men would fancy
+. I've noticed that men natu'lly take to
different kind of girl from me. Be
sides. I'm needed at home. Dad
couldn't get on without me-
& Seem hos a widderer he might
get a wife to supply your place
"'Oh. dad. be couldn't get on with no
one else except me. I've TUX care OF
4 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
n bear a spot on a pillowcase or a sheet
s. or a cobweb anywhere or dust accu-
muaun' under the furniture. And
he's awful particular what be eats.
beln' inclined to indigestion. ] know
3 list how to make the kind O. bread he
& likes and mullins and griddecakes,
y and, as to cookin his meat. ! never
dry it up like some persons. but al
ways leave the Juice in 1t. Then when
3 It comes to apple or huckleberry pies
& dad says I'm the only one can make
em to suit him. Suit him. mind you.
ID don't say could suit anybody else
"Well. l could see that his mouth
was waterin' for some o. them things
+ I'd told him about. so asks him how
81 he'd like to come over for dinner the
next Sunday and try some OF 'em. He
) said he'd Ike to mighty well.
That's as far as | wanted to go
right then. So / passed on with a
s1'Mornin'. Mr.. Griggs. We eat dinner
half an hour after church is out Sun
S1ay. Goodby.'
& There's no use tellIn' you the rest
III this story. made n beginnin' that
would work shore. cause ] attacked
him through his stomach. Some girls
S<would "a talked soft; some would "a
&4cried. Cryin' is the best way to bring
&&l man down next TO feedin' him WELL
but I'd rather rely on the stomach
han on sympathy myself. but each
<Kirl must decide for herself. Now
r you 60 and experiment on Ben Hath
1&hway. l know you want him. and II
BIO other girl has got ahead OF you
you can get him-if you work it right"
Marthy experimental on Mr.. Hath.
i hway with success. She didn't follow
the advice exactly as II was given her.
X but near enough TO produce the desired
result At any rate, she got him