Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-02-19

IN bring Mary back you'll agree to marry
her"
Mrs Able went away and a month or so later
she was in Springfield again and she had her
sister with her
Lincoln went to call When he saw Mary
Owens he gasped. The girl had grown
mously- She hae become outrageously fat.
Well. I've brought her back for you marry
according to promise said Mrs. Able
She was joking, but Lincoln wasn't wheth-
er it was a jest whether she serious
and was cloaking her feelings in the light man.
ner in which she spoke. He called regularly upon
Miss Owens and paid to her all the attention he
thought an engaged man should. 1t
pleasant. however, for she enormous in size
To make the situation still more absurd, he
very tall and very thin The contrast between
the two enough to make any person smile
no matter how gloomy he might be.
Lincoln worried greatly the situation He
felt that he in honor bound to marry the
lady. but he dreaded the taking of such step.
But while Lincoln had due regard for tho
sanctity of his promise, implied otherwise, he
tried hard to make Miss Owens understand that
ne was not a desirable partner for life He wrote
to her of the queerest love letters that per
haps any man ever penned. He told her over and
over again what miserable life she would have
with him. In one of them he said
Il am afraid you would not be satisfied. There
is great deal of fourishng about in carriages
here in Springfield. which it would be your doom
10 see without sharing You would have to be
poor without the means OF hiding your poverty
Do you believe you could bear that patiently?"
Another time he her:
Il know / should much ha ppier with YOU
than the way l am. provided 1 no signs of
discomfort in you. What you have said
may have been in the way of Jest. may have
misunderstood it If so then let it be forgotten:
if otherwise, 1 wish you would think seriously
before you decide. What / have said would
most positively abide by, provided you wish it.
My opinion is that you had better do it. You
have not been accustomed hardship and e
may be more serious than you imagine j
know you capable of thinking concretely on
any subject and if you deliberate maturely upon
this before you decide then am willing to abide
your decision"
Lovers Tears and QuarreIs.
Evidently Miss Owens had some spirit She
sent reply to one of his letters that stunned
him. She rejected him incontinently and she
pQued his pride in doing it, for she told him that
he was deficient in those links which make up
the chain of a woman's happiness"
You would think OF Lincoln as a dancing
man. yet he did at times indulge in that pastime
There some records extant in proof this
They take the form of cotillion notices printed
at the time ne was thirty old and little
before his meeting with Mary Todd
Like Mary Owens. Mary Todd a Ken
tuckian. and. like Mary Owens. she had a sister
LINcOLNS TRUE KINDNESS.
Mrs Amanda Kuhn died some months ago in
Philadelphia at the age of eghty-four- During
the Civil her husband wounded and she
went to the hospital at Washington with her only
baby to nurse him He recovered. but she stayed
deeply impressed with the woman's devotion to
the needs of the injured Her baby attracted him.
and. realizing that the child burden and
anxiety to the loyal nurse he arranged for its
care in the White House while the mother
busy in the hospital That like him It
Lincoln as the biggest the modern world has
known