HOW KIND OF HER.

Dunstan Times, Issue 523, 26 April 1872, Page 1 (Supplement)

HOW KIND OF HER.

In Harrisburg there is a fascinating women who has been married four times within ten years, and there are at least a dozen men so anxious to get her that they have remained bachelors in the hope that her last husband would follow in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessors. Sure enough a few weeks ago he died, and all these fellows began immediately to prepare for opening the c impaign against the widow. One man named Hyde determined to have the first chance; so he jammed himself in the widow’s carriage on the way home from the funeral, 'taking her hand, and looking with tender glances upon the handerchief with which she dried her dutiful tears, he asked her to be his to let him take the place of the dear departed and to comfort her in her bereavement, the widow removed the handerchief, blew her nose gently, and said:—“ Mr. Hyde, I should gladly consider your offer, and perhaps I might have accepted it, but you are coo late The minister proposed to me in the graveyard while you were lowering the coffin, and I said ‘Yes!’ But I’ll tell you what I'll do; I’ll give you the first chance after he dies.”