A WOULD-BE BENEDICT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1616, 9 August 1887, Page 4

A WOULD-BE BENEDICT.

A strange application for a wife was made known at a recent meeting of the Chester Board of Guardians. It appears that at a previous meeting the clerk read a letter from Private Hall, of Lichfield, stating that he possessed £SOO, and offering to marry a young lady, or even a widow, if the board would recommend one. He (the clerk) had since received a number of applications from various young ladies, some of them enclosing their photographs. He would pass the letters and photos round. Miss Charlotte Knapp, Grove Road, Petworth, was an applicant if Private Hall was healthy and sane. This was thought unkind. She would like to know all his bad qualities. She was also curious to know if he could scrub, make beds, shake carpets, clean grates, make pastry, fry fish; and, lastly, whether he slept well at nights. For all these qualities the applicant said she would play the harmonium, and was thoroughly domesticated. “My age,” she concluded, “is forty years.” Peggy Smi'h, of Sydenham, who wanted a really good husband a blonde with sweet, blue eyes and no temper at all—wrote from Cromwell St., Gorton, Manchester, that she would make a man with £SOO a dutiful wife. She thoroughly understood milking and was dying for a really suitable husband. The board regretted they were unable to do anything with these confidential and embarrassing communications.