“NO REGRETS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 87, 16 August 1913, Page 5

“NO REGRETS.

WKtRLV/IND MARRIAGES.

FI)I'll OK Ti l KM. “I have heoii married four timeq,! and married eaeh of my wives on one day’s acquaintance.” The speaker was Leslie Fraser Duncan, the tallest Scotchman in London. Now !)2 years of age, Duncan is still a striking and unusual man. He stands (lit din in his stockings, and retains all his faculties. He can read with the aid of an ordinary pair of glasses, and has never known a day’s illness in hits long life. And he pours contempt on the idea that great caution is necessary before entering into a matrimonial engagement. Thus is the story of his quadruple matrimonial ventures:—

[ advertised for my first wif«, and had SO replies hy return of post. ] pieked out a dozen of them, and ('literal into correspondence with the writers, finally narrowing my correspondents down to one. Although I travelled some way to see her, we were already pledged to one another. 1 ] met her, and found her to he a girl if 19, I being then a young man of do. She was as fair as one could desire, and 1 had the license in my pocket. Next’day we were manned, and until T lost her 12 years later, we lived as happy as could ho. And T had no money when I' was married, although I was not long in making some. I met mv second wife in an omnibus in the city, and we were engaged to be marired before wo got out. Next day we were married, ’and she made me happy for 12 years more. Why should we have waited ? My third wife was a widow, whom 1 bad certainly known when sbe was very young. However, I bad not seen s e'- for more than 10 years when T meountcred her one day in London. We wore glad to see one another again, mid the next day we were married. Tt was a very happy union. The fourth 'rife I met at an hotel in Brighton, and lias further advanced its claims mi glad to say that we wasted no Mine in foolish hesitation, but were named without loss of time. My wife died last October, deeply lamented by me, as by all her friends. 1 ■an look hack and say 1 had no cause L n regret any of my impetuous wceilings. Duncan is a teetotaller, and does not smoke. 1 Also he lives upon very -simple food, and cats sparingly. “Twelve •cuts a day will keep mo,” he says.