The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1913-05-09
How to Get
A Husband
BY LOUISE B. CUMMINGS

| Its very easy 10 say git married,
| Aunt Jane hut how's girl TO git mar
ried onless some one axes her."
management my dear: management
had to manage to git my husband
but done it."
Howl
| "Well. I'll tell you. seem It's you
| though never toe any one before ir
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
hardworkln' young man. attendin
10 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 'MorniD. Miss Haskell. says
he 'Beginnin' the seasons work 2 says
|. Yes says he. I'm startln'.' 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? i get the
supper myself. says he"
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 list looked M
him as though my heart was breakn'
for sympathy for him. Then he said
he'd been thinkin' that If he had n
wife TO do the inside work and the
/ milkin' and the rest o. the dairy work
1t would be easier on him. ! told him
| 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.
sorroful at that. He was leaniD' on
his plow handle and lOokin' off over
the field and didn't say nothin.
There's Il wilder woman over to
Berksville that might suit you said
She's q little older n you and has u
couple o. children. but mebbe you
wouldn't want 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 it in. He was thinkin' about the
wife I'd put into his head.
IF you wouldn't want a wilder
and reckon the children might bother
you; they're always kickln, up racket
In house, know 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. I'll have to take what ! kin git.
"'Oh. no. you won't" says |. There's
nice girls that would he 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 he.
"'OA. I! don't count. None O the
young men would want me-
lis that SO? he says. lookin' kind
o. surprised.
mo says |. I'm not the kind Of
girl most young men would fancy.
I've noticed that men maturity take to
n different kind of n girl from me. Be
sides. I'm needed at home. Dad
couldn't get ON without me-
"'Seein' hos widderer he 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
else comm in to do the work would
list set him crazy. You see. dad can't
bear spot on pillowcase or u sheet
or cobweb anywhere or dust accn.
mulatin' under the furniture. And
he's awful particular what he eats.
bein' inclined to Indigestion. | know
jist how to make the kind o. bread he
|. likes and mullins and griddlecakeS
and. as to cookin his meat, ! never
dry 1t up like some persons. hut nj
ways leave the juice In II. Then when
1t comes to apple or huckleberry pies
dad says I'm the only one can make
'em to suit him. Suit him, mind ron
] don't say ] could suit anybody else
well, could see that his nO'ltn
was waterin' for some O them things
I'd told him about. so asks him how
he'd like to come over for dinner tia,
next Sunday and try some OF em. H.
said he'd like TO mighty well.
That's as far as l wanted to go
right then. SO | passed on with Il
'Mornin', Mr. Griggs. We eat dinner
half an hour after church is out sun
day. GOodby.'
There's no use tellin' you the rest
O. this story. made beginnin' that
would work shore. cause attacked
him through his stomach Some girls
would "a talked soft; some would n
cried Cryin' is the best way to bring
man down next to feedin' him well
but I'd rather rely on the stomach
than on sympathy myself. but each
girl must decide for herself Now
you go and experiment on Ben Hath.
away. ! know you want him, and II
no other girl has got ahead of you
you can get him-if you work 1t right"