HUNTING A HUSBAND.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9125, 21 April 1908, Page 7

HUNTING A HUSBAND.

I. She had decided that she wanted a husband,, and she began to look about for the right man. 11. She saw a young man at a party who was not doing all the talking, and she thought: “Here is a beginning. That young man has brains. ’ ’ 111. She met him in the street, and he did not stare at her, and she thought: “This young man is evidently no bounder. "l will hunt him up.” !V. She entered the Tube, and the young man who sat on the end of a seat stood up, and gave his seat to an old lady. “He is a paragon,” she said to herself. “I must keep track of him. ” V. She was out one night, ’’and as she passed him she dropped her handkerchief. He returned it to her, but made no remark about the weather, and did not ask her to take a walk. “This is an exception,” she said to herself “I must look after him.” YL Some days later she met this young man in company with a mntand was introduced, and she said: “A few days ago I was in the Tube, and saw yon give up your seat to an old lady. It was an act of great gallantry, and I have decided that you would make a good husband. When I saw you give your seat to the old lady instead of to me I came to that conclusion. ’ ’ “Yes,” he said. “But that was my mother-in-law. 1 ’ She never smiled again.