The daily Alaskan., 1913-03-19
How to Get
 A Husband
By LOUISE B. CUMMINGS

l "Marthy, my dear said Mrs. G1ggsi you'd ought to git married. Your ia ther Is liable to be taken from you at any time. and be ain't got red cent to leave you"
 Its 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 | had to manage to git my husband, but done 1t"
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 1 Well, Pn tell you, seein' it's you. though never toe any one before in my life. l wanted a husband. and l wanted John. couldn't tell him wanted him. so l told him the next best thing He wasn't thinkin' O git tn married. so far as knew. He was a hardwOrklD' young man, attendin to hls duties and tryin' to git his farm in good payln condition.
 "One spring mornlD' went by where he was plowin'. 'Mornin', Mir Griggs, says !. 'MornIn'. Miss Haskell says he 'Beginnin' the season's wOrkT says |. Yes says he, I'm startin' T don't see. says |, how you git on with your bousekeepln when you're at work on your farm What dye do when you gn ln after a hard days work and don't Gnd no supper readyT T get the | supper myself, says he"
 "I see. Aunt Jane. Then you told | him he needed a wife, and he asked you to marry hlm"
 Laws a mSSy. child, you don't sup pose | thunder Nike that? | didn't do nothln' of the kind l list looked at him as though my heart was breakin' for sympathy for him Then be said he'd been thlnkin' that if he had a wife tO do the inside work and the milEin and the rest O the dairy work | it would be euSier on hir' | told him | 1 reCkOned he'd have tO go into the next county for one. since, so far as | knew. all the girls wO'th havin' near 1 by was spoken for He looked kind O | sorro'ful at that He was leanin' on his blow handle and loOkin' Off over the field and didn't say nOthin'. "'There's a widder woman over to Berksville that might suit you said She's a little older D you and has couple O children. but mebbe you | wouldn't want a widder. He didn't say nOthiu to this, only jist looked on over the fields The mornln' was kind O springIike. and the country was look | ln' fresh. but [ knowed be wasn't talk in 1t in. He was thinkin' about the ! wife I'd put into bis head. "'If you wouldn't want a widder- and reckon the children might bother you; they're always kickiu' up a racket 10 house-I know young woman that might suit you over 10 Hilton crossroads. She ain't purty, bavtn' red hair and freckes besides oein' kind O loose joiuted. but she's mighty strong and kin do a heap O work.
 Reckon be said, kind O mourn ful. 'IlI have to take what kin git
 "'Oh. no, you wODtr says There's nice girls that would be glad to git you; only you'd have to go sOmewheres else for 'em. seein' those about here are taken up.
 "'I ain't heerd O your Rkln' up with DO young man, Miss Haskell says he
 "Oh, I! don't count None O the young men would want me "ls that sOy he says, lOOkin' kind O surprised,
 No says |, I'm not the kind of a ! girl most young men would fancy. I've noticed that men natu'lly take to a different kind of girl from me. Be sides, I'm needed at home. Dad couldn't get Ou without me
 'Seein' hos 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 tuk care of his house ever since nav died and rong time before that and any one else comin in to do the work would | list set him crazy. You see, dad can't bear spot on pillUwcase or a sheet or cUbweb anywhere or dust accu- | muiatin' under the furniture. And ne's awful particular what he eats. bein' inclined to indigestion. ] know list how to make the kind O bread be likes and mullins and griddecakes. md. as to cookin' his meat never dry 1t up like some persons but al ways leave the juice in it Then when it comes to apple or huckleberry pies dad says I'm the only one can make l em to suit him. Suit him. mind you. | don't say could suit anybody else
 Well could see that his mouth was waterln for some O them things I'd told him about, so asks him how he'd like to come over for dinner the next Sunday and try some Of 'em. He said he'd like to mighty well.
 That's as far as ] wanted to go right then. So 1 passed on with 'Mornin', Mir. Griggs. We eat dinner half an hour after church Is out Sun, day. GOOdby.'
 There's no use tellln' you the rest O this story. 1 made a beginnin' that would work shore, cause | attacked him through his stomach Some girls would "a talked soft; some would a