WANTED, A CLEAN HUSBAND.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1163, 31 March 1874, Page 4

WANTED, A CLEAN HUSBAND.

.Here is a neat thing in the matrimonial advertisement line remarkable for the precision with which what may be called the " details" are entered into. " A Lady of Liverpool" thus succinctly puts forth her modest list of requirements in the successful candidate for her lily-white hand. After stating that she is forty('' fair and fat," we presume implied) and has £2,300, she says, "The gentleman must be forty, not beyond forty-fivo, tall, of good carriage, have good teeth and hair, and be most particular in his personal habits, accustomed to daily immersion. Address, etc." The " Lady of Liverpool" deserves to be embalmed in poetical amber quite as much as the '«Lady of Sbalott." To those of her delicious sex who resort to the advertising columns of an unsentimental morning paper as a means of procuring domestic felicity for them-

selyjis, she sets a most commendable example. If tlie use of a sponge bath every morning were insisted upon as an indispensable qualification in a husband, much good to society would undoubtedly follow. Dirty skins and dirty habits (generally found together) would become rare, and a large increase in the average amount of wedded happiness would be the natural consequence. A man fresh from the bath, as Homer describes Achilles, is always in a good humor. He sits down to breakfast in a happy frame of mind, regardless of the postman or the morning paper, and can even endure cold coffee or hard eggs without a murmur. The " Lady of Liverpool," aged forty, is evidently aware of all this, possibly from pleasant experience of a " late lamented j" and has satisfied herself that, though she has money, if she gets a husban d who sponges himself, there is little fear of his ever sponging on her.