The Wrangell sentinel., 1922-08-10

uiStdHIe, Dui SuCli people won't take hint. In order to keep them off the premises, Sophie will have to stand at the front gate with a double-barreled shotgun, and that would interfere with her house. work.
 If a man marries a woman who has a string of undesirable relatives, he should at once take his bride away from them. Let him board fast train and travel as far as the rails go, and then mosey into the brush, and per haps he'll escape the wrath to come. If he camps down in the old home town, where those relatives are hang ing out, he is sure to have trouble.
 My third wife was gifted with many uncles and cousins and brothers and sisters of the bargain counter kind. Any six of them would have been dear at 50 cents. Before We were married, I explained to Maria that I wouldn't stand for those relatives. and she said she wouldn't expect me to. She gave me her word of honor that she wouldn't have anything to do with them, or let them have anything to do with her, and she meant every word she said.
 "1n those days I was poor, and realized that it would keep me hustling to keep the wolf away from the door, without having to provide for any cousins or aunts. About month after we were married, I went home unexpectedly in the middle of the af- ternoon one day, and found my wife filling a basket with pieces of fried chicken, and jars of jam, and oranges, and various expensive things adapted to the idle rich.
 "I asked her what she was going to do, and she colored up and stammered around, and finally explained that her Aunt Rachel was dangerously sick and she thought 1t would be real kind ness to take her few delicacies. Of course,' Maria said, I haven't forgotten my promise, and don't intend to have anything more to do with my folks than can help, but in a case of sick ness the rules should be suspended
 "I am willing to suspend them to the extent of a slice of buttered toast and hard-boiled egg said. but you have four dollars worth of victuals in that basket, and that's rubbing it in your Aunt Rachel little too strong
 "So she unloaded most of the things she had put in the basket and said 1 had no heart, and went away weeping. Up to that moment our married life had been like sunny morning, but this experience made 1t cloudy, and our house never was the same afterwards. I had lost confidence in my wife, and she had sized me up as tyrant.
 "That Aunt Rachel experience was merely the beginning. A week or two later went home furnishing, expecting to see an uplifting and epnobling SUD- per all ready on the table, but there was nobody at home. The fire was out, and there was nothing to eat in sight. I dug up a can of salmon and some crackers and had heartbreaking meal.
 About nine o'clock in the evening my wife came home, and when 1 asked her where she had been, she answered defiantly that her Uncle Ebenezer had been seriously injured while chopping down tree, and she considered it her duty to take care of him. would have to get along the best way could for day or two, she said, for she was going to nurse Uncle Ebenezer. Her relatives soon found that they could have anything they wanted from my larder by being invalids, so they took turns falling sick, and my wife resolved herself into an ambulance corps. That sort of thing couldn't last long, my friends, and 1t didn't"