The Palatka news and advertiser., 1914-11-13
CHRISTIAN, COMELY
AID A GOOD COOK.
And Yet a Palatka Widow
Is Permitted to Long for
a Husband.

permitted to indulge her longing fo
a husband to the point where sh
was forced to spend all of three dol
lars in last Sundays edition of tn
Florida Times Union in advertisin,
this soul longing.
The advertisement contains pic
ture of the widow. Above the pic
ture in bold-faced type is. the line
HUSBAND WANTED" Below tn,
picture is the following:
WANTED-A good husband;
none who are regular tobacco and
whiskey users nee d apply, rail-
road man preferred. Am a widow,
no children; forty-fve, a Christian;
jolly, look Oh the bright side, good
cook and musician. Prefer a
blond. Reference given, Address
H. B. Box All, Palatka, Fla.
/ Pity the lonliness of this jolly Chris.
tian widow who has formed the habit
of looking on the bright side and who
but awaits an opportunity to cook for
some blond railroad man who is will
ing to forego booze and tobacco to
enjoying the blessings which follow
well-cooked food, and music that hath
charms to soothe his WEAKNESS.
The lady is rather good looking, at
least when her forty-fve years are
taken into consideration. Of course
there is a maturity of beauty that
comes with the years. There is the
suspicion of a smile lurking beneath
her clear-cut features, and if one were
to guess, he would say that her eyes
are hazel and her hair, which is comb
ed back from her forehead and tied
in a Mary Jane knot at the back, bor-
ders on the ecru. There is ribbon
in the hair and pinned to the knot.
Her nose is Greecian and her lips, if
one be permitted to judge from
photograph, are neither thin nor thick,
but of size and pucker to be about
right for kissing. Her ears are on
the sides of her well-poised head and
are of size to indicate that she
woud not be stingy with her husbands
money. Her dress is cut high at the
neck and is ornamented with brocaded
silk.
Are you a railroad man and a
blond? If so can you contemplate
this lonely widow and still 90 on in
your sins of eating tobacco and lin
wering over the "cOrn Ticker" as it
giyeth its color in the bottle? How
can you compare the deceitful conso-
latiOns of "corn liker" and tobacco
to the substantial joys which would
come to you in the right to gather
his ,uiIpUr tn ,-Cr,r -L;rf f,,r4 80,
your return from a days toll on the
rail? Think of the table filled with
gritS, and fried chicken in season,
and hot biscuit, and coffee, and veal
stew and shrimp in season, and the
and one things that make
ife worth the living to the man on
he road, and all these a part and par
'el of this Jolly Christian widow who
las formed the habit of looking on
he bright side of life, and whose on
y fault lies in the fact that some
circumstance back in her
,arly life has prejudiced her in favor
If men of your cast of character and |
'aused her to shun men who work at |
'ther trades and who persist in subor-
linating love to booze and tobacco.
Blond men of Palatka! Are you
roing to let this loneliness go on in |
is misery when it might be lolling |
N your shirt front and looking up
nto your eyes within easy distance
f a good feed? Are you going to
ersist in compelling her to advertise
o the world that Palatka, dry town,
llows its widows to indulge an un-
uenched soul longing when we have
1en and to spare? Are you going
o let it be known that a good cook .
nd a musician, one who can jump
rom the range in the kitchen to the
iano in the parlor anC operate either
18th equal force, lacks for apprecia-
ion in this, the Gem City of Florida?
Poor woman! You are a widow;
hat kind we wat not, whether it be
rass, or fashioned by the reaper
hose name is death" What boots
, anyhow? It's all the same to us.
'ou are alone and unprotected in Pa
tks and our great, pumping heart
sympathy goes out to you. No
ne to take you to Kalbfeld's; no
ne to take you for an evenings stroll
ut on the Riverside drive past Ed.
Jattles pretty home, while the man
the silver moon looks on and
nirks as blond railroad man places
our little hand in his'n and presses
for all its forty-fve years will
and. Little does he know the joys
nat he is missing in not being able
, gather you to his protecting arms
the quiettude of your mutual home,
lille you feed him doughnuts of your
Hn frying from out the lower corner
the sideboard.
Pardon US for the suggestion, H.
:, but we know one man who answers
our desires in every essential de-
Ill, except employment he is not
railroad man. Fact is he isn't any,
ling much when it comes to work.
e was married once, thoroughly
larried, so thoroughly that his wife,
no was also good cook, and pas
ably good musician on the grapha-
hone, got tired of cooking and went
here she could play more and cook
,ss. That is, if the preacher who
Ssisted at the planting knew what he
as talking about, she is now play
lg harp. But it was of the man we
-arted to tell you. He became so
'nely after the funeral that for a
me it was thought he would take
, drink, and possibly he would had
OF the price of booze been prohbi-
We. That fact helped to tide him
YER the period of greatest grief, and
ow he has abandoned all ideas he
lay have had of whisky consolation.
-e never could bear tobacco, though
e made one heroic attempt and al
lost died in an effort to pass his
,w-necked shoes up through his
He lacked the persever-
nee of most of us. But he is a good |
ONE man. No matter how urgent
is business, he is always home to
is meals, and when midnight comes