Advice to the Girls.
I am sorry to note that within the last few days several mora peoplo have married for a joke, among them bring a, young lady near Madison, Wis., who wes out for a walk, and at the suggestion of a party named FOOS, married him, Muoh has been said about this impromptu method of marriage, but still people go. on encouraging divorce by hurriedly acquiring a husband from the great five-cent counter of humanity. Miss foster, it seems, was the daughter of iv millionaire, who edits a sawmill in .Wisconsin, and who could have boarded her us Ion? as she lived; To the casual observer, it would seem that no temptation could woo a young lady from i» home whernl all day long she could hear the',si)ucal. ; of,-: the complaining sawmill, and the snore, of .'thel planing "mill," turning,'out raatched; ;flooringi;itw<); by; •:■
foigottlie buzz sawVithswhiflh/shef had been prono bo the gentle* Bkid, the XXXX shingles, the slab, the gammy joist, fencing/ and its finishing timber, in "order^to» flee to tlio arms of a stranger. ,* Oh, / girls whywillyou'doso? JVhvwill' jou foyet the'sheltering arms of yom > jiaients to take tipaims against a sea of tioulde ? Why tho old home, and &cek out a stranger/' who will break youi*North, Ameucan v hoait, and send yon dowii, perhaps, tog a damp and undesirable drunkards* crave Try to get acqualnSojwitlw tho man whom you proposopri-wed / As you get raorethoioughlfaiiqiiainted*'' with him, tiy to got a whiff of bieath See that he is temperate., jF i you hint that he lovrs'the flowing bowl, and that his hot bieath, es" it courses* through hit, clinched teeth, tin. cotton in your ears, draw up to your full height, ciack your heels," togeihei twice in tepid Succession, and _ go av.M -Bill Nyk * wk 3
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2974, 11 August 1888, Page 2
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299Advice to the Girls. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2974, 11 August 1888, Page 2
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