A remarkable story of a young 1 woman’s misfortunes while in search of a husband comes from Hungary. She was the handsomest girl in the village and all the young men fell in loye with her, Before she was twenty she had received even an hundred offers of marriage, but refused them all. She made up her mind at last, however, to get married, and accepted the 101st offer. The yeung man was killed in an accident, however, before the wedding. The next offer was accepted, but the lover was drafted into the army. Two others were accepted in turn and met a like fate. The next two on the list were in turn drowned before they could be married. Two more then presented themselves in turn, but both broke off the match because of the smallness of the girl's fortune. The ninth got drunk on the wedding day and beat the girl before the ceremony was performed, and the | match was then broken off. The tenth candidate turned out to have a wife already; and the eleventh ran away just before the time set for the wedding. Thoroughly discouraged, the 1 beauty then took a dose of poison and killed herself.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2011, 22 February 1890, Page 1
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202Untitled Temuka Leader, Issue 2011, 22 February 1890, Page 1
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