HUNTING A HUSBAND

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 101, 18 April 1908, Page 4

HUNTING A HUSBAND

JSIu I had decided that she wanted ft - husband, and she began to look about for the right man. If. She saw a young man at a party who was not doing all the talking, and she thought: "Here is a lieginning. That young man lias brains.'' 1)1. _ | She met him in the street, and lie did not stare at her. and she thought: "This young man is evidently no bounder; "l will hunt him up." IV. 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. "lie is a paragon,"' she >aid 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 I herself; "I must look after him." VI. Some (lavs later she met this young man in company with a mutual friend, and was introduced, and she said: "A few days ago T was in the Tube, and saw you give up your seat to an old lady. ' H was am act of great gal--1 lantrv, and I have decided that, you I would 'make a good husband. When 1 1 saw you give, your seat to the old lady instead of to me i came, to that eonclu- , sion." , "Yes." he said. "Hut tluit was my mother-in-law." J 1 She never smiled again.