Arizona republican., 1920-09-17

Mrs. R. Gibson, PA West Thirty fourth street, New York City, wants husband, and she wants one from Ari- zona. With this desire impelling her to write, she has asked the governors office to help her, through the press, in finding a mate,
 Airs. Gibson means business. She says so in her letter. She also says that she would not take this method of getting a husband if she had other than honest intentions, and if she were not entirely serious in her attempt. She advances, as sort of foundation for her request, the assertion that she is tired of New York She intimates that New York is full of sham, which caused state house employees yesterday to wonder if by any chance she has been interested in the Democratic presidential campaign. This inference is strengthened, they say, when 1t is discovered that conditions there are dreadful" She is desperate over these conditions, whatever they may be, hence the husband, it was figured yesterday al the capitol, although Stenographer with starry eyes and a flock Of brown hair declared positively that she couldn't see how getting a husband would better anyone's condition much. But this young lady is wrought up over Tennessee and her opinion was dis counted immediately.
 Mrs. Gibson pays a compliment to The Republican in her next paragraph -unconsciously, perhaps, but never- theIess gratifying. She supposes that she could advertise in some of the ma trimonial papers, but she is afraid that this would bring undesira bles, and, as she intimates afterwards, she is looking for such a husband as any woman would want to have if she had never had one before. The implied
 1F fel len to the male raders of The Republican who may come up to the standards set by Mrs Gibson.
 The Qualifications
 These standards are carried in sec ond letter, addressed directly to eligibles. But before they are outlined it may be best to say that Mrs. Gibson is a widow, 37 years of age. Now, as was pointed out yesterday, this is on the sunny side of 40. at which age widows are declared, by every author ity from Venerable Bede tQ Dickens to be particularly winsome. Fair. fat and forty'' is one of the axioms of the language, and while state house at taches could not, of course, make any assertions about the flair and fiat part of it. the "forty" part was more
 than enough to make them think that one of the triology of widows virtues naturally infers the other two.
 Mrs. Gibson wauts a husband more than 40 years of age. This seems, ir
 the opinion of the state capitol as q | whole to be the one necessary attri- bute in him. He must not be short says Mrs. Gibson, which is explained
 when we read, farther down, that she is tall, and, as the state house people all said yesterday. has a proper regard for the matrimonial unities. And she has no objection to a divorced man l This was the interesting clause tha' caught the eyes of the capitol .yester- day. Undoubtedly, the attaches said 1 Mrs. Gibson is a woman of experience and common sense. She seems tG
 reckon, these declared, that one wh' had found his own particular matri' monial journey charted over rough anc
 wind capped seas would, in a second adventure. have learned to reef sail | and hatten down hatches in any gall |
 the cases he has handled in his westerI