Wooing is woe
By: Farris L. Morton.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Vantage Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Marriage.; Family.
First sentence: "The foibles of man's nature being what they are, there probably has never lived a male who at one time or another has not wished he could relive certain portions of his life."
Description: From memory, old journals, manuscripts, and diaries, he has begotten Wooing Is Woe.  No maestro ever had a better grasp of the subject.  No misognynist, he affirms only things for which he can vouch.  In anecdote after anecdote in a profusion that beggars description he views female duplicity, laying bare the naked truth with irrefutable documentation.  Would you believe it, in the romance that culminated in his own forty-odd years of married life, he has to this day no recollection of ever proposing!  And his recounting of the events of the wedding night reveals some incredible absurdities...
Notes: The late Farris Morton was my uncle--my mother's elder brother.  Born in 1900, he grew up in the rough and rowdy mining camp of Eureka, Utah, where he served as yearbook editor.  He went on to become a printer's devil on a country weekly newspaper and a reporter in Salt Lake City.  Eventually he and his wife Patty settled in Salem, Oregon, where Farris worked as an office man, stenographer and accountant.  They had a daughter and a son--my cousins Pattie and Davie--with whom I would dearly love to reconnect!  - Richard Menzies
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