Show A qREAT WIDOWER t k i t p l He Was a Very Frequently Married Mar-ried Man irr MOTIER4Nr LAWS OF HENRY VIII His Flirtations Courtships Loves and Wives Graphically Described by Alex E Sweet For THE SUNDAY HERALD Copyrighted IQ THESE u days of sudden sud-den and frequent a r > + fre-quent divorces di-vorces it is instructive to Flrt turn back to utl the pages of history and ponder over d11 the methods of c PJ King Henry VIII of England s M i Eng-land who was mr 3 one of tho most t = k4 expert professional profes-sional widowers in history Henrys wives like bank notes were prized according to their face value and retired re-tired from circulation as soon as there was any dicount on thorn His first wife was tho widow of his younger brother Her name was Catherine The promptness with which she married Henry justifies me in saying that she really did not deserve the good fortune of losing her first husband She was however a little sensitive on the subject herself for she never alluded to him as her late husband hus-band but as her deceased brotherin lawHenry seems to have got along very well with Queen Catherine for a number of years until he was suddenly overwhelmed with remorse occurred to him that he had sinned in marrying his brother widow His remorse was however a little peculiar In the morning he would adoni himself with sackcloth and ashes and in the afternoon he could 10 seen driving in alight light top buggy with Annie Boleyn holding hold-ing the reins with one hand and telling her sweet things 1r f i a suey k fuaY t YV4 I tfl i lf k f t If i rj 1 wI r I 1f > J h I Jt t loJ Jj J J 1 Ij V I if t t1 tA Jtt J 11 1 1 lj r j ii Hi eIl 1 11J1f J 1u J1JJJ J I U q f M J m i 1 J J1l11V Dr r I iJ 1 = uif1t Ii iltjllf f4i tlr Yr 4 f i il J I 1 d r 11 = u cJ ANNE BOTEIN Ho instituted divorce proceeding against his wife for failing to support him but they were slower than the conviction of New York alderman because the Pope refused re-fused to sanction them Henry obt lincu his divorce and married his affinity Annie Boleyn whose tender attactment for the king was however soon followed by 11 train of disaster for about ayear later Henry made the acquaintance of lady Jane Seymour As Annie Boleyn had been a hind of understudy to Queen Catherine just so Lady fane was one of the maids of honor of Annie Boleyn The king accused Annie of failing to provide for him aud also of being flirtatious with other men Annie denied the charge but the court decided de-cided that she was mistaken so off came her head Of course Henry felt very bad for an hour or so but he soon revived which joke is said to have been the Treat cause of the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey who got it off at tho wedding breakfast But for that wretched chestnut he might be alive today They were married with great pomp the bride wearing a magnificent magnifi-cent train several yards long carried by four pall bearers a c 1 3 p f I Sg a s wR f J w 1 KING HENRY King Henry soon grew tired of his third wife and he determined also to retire her from circulation The cause is not known but very likely it was onions or cold feet or failure to support him or high treason or some other trivial offense so he ordered herdivorce and execution to De celebrated at once but Lady Jane played him a mean trick Just as the executioner was getting ready to finish off her head and call neckst it occurred to her to die of a fever Tho disconsolate widower did not relish the way his third wife had treated him He was put out on third Henry was full of whims He decided that the next woman upon whom it would Evolve E-volve to make him a widower should be a large woman eighteen hands high his previous pre-vious wives having been rather diminutive He selected Anne of Cleves and had her brought over from Flanders She was quite an extensive woman butwhen Henry saw tier he changed his mind and decide de-cide to wed a tall thin angular woman some female who all flesh being grass looked as though she had been raised during dur-ing a drouth and who was tall enough to utilize in putting out the gas in the hall Consequently Anne of Cleves did not suit him for while she was not oil wool she was more than a yard wide She reminded him so he said of a big feather bed with a string tied round tho middle He married her however and sent her back homewith her head on her shoulders an oversight which has never been satisfactorily explained ex-plained Then he married Catherine Howard and bad her head chopped off A short time elapsed before he married again as he was busy writing a book entitled A neses sary doctrine for any Christian man Ho probably > made a great deal of money out oft of-t as he had no trouble getting his royalty an advantage which some modern authors do not enjoy He next led a widow by the name of Catherine Parr to the altar Before Be-fore Henry married her she was the widow of EordStanly It was not long before Hal wanted her to go through the usual programme and become his widow He desired to have her executed for being fluent with her conversational facilities STo doubt she would have gone to swell the mob of headless widows but Henry died and was gathered to his widows This is the true story of Henry the Eighths experiences Of course I have told it in my lurid way but I have given it straight and it shows that although at the preseut time the number of women who really care to vote is about equal to the number of men who like to put the I baby to sleep yet nevertheless the opposing I oppos-ing sex as it has aptly been called has advanced with gigantic strides since the days of Bluff King Hal I |