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Show WEDDING BELLS WILL RING Investigation Made by Prospective Bride Evidently In No Way Discouraged Dis-couraged Her. A girl in town had a proposal of marriage ono Sunday night, and asked a wcok to consider It before filing her answer, testifies T. A. Sawhill. Sho then organized herself into an Investigating Inves-tigating committee nnd commenced tnklng testimony from tho married indies of her acquaintance The flrot ono sho visited used to bo a belle nnd tho most ndmlred girl in tbo town beforo sho was married six years be-,foro. be-,foro. t Tho cross-examination brought out 'tho fact that sho had three children, did all her own work, including her 'washing nnd ironing, nnd hadn't been down town for four weeks, and that ihor husband had given her but two dollars slnco sho wns married, and that ho borrowed nnd forgot to pay back ten dollars which her brother ,onco gave her for a ChrlstmaB prcs-lent. prcs-lent. Ho bought a now overcont with 'the money, whllo she woro tho samo plush coat that sho woro when ho was courting her. Another woman whom sho visited quit teaching school three years beforo to marry "tho handsomest nnd best-dressed best-dressed man in town," and sho Is now supporting him. A third didn't daro say her soul was her own when her husband was around, though sho used to writo some lovely essays when sho was at school on tho "emancipation of women," nnd tho fourth woman sho visited was divorced. di-vorced. After visiting them and summing up tho ovldcnco, sho went homo and wroto to tho young man. Sho will bo married to him noxt month. Kansas City Journal. |
