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Show LABORER SEEKS WIFE; HOBBLE SKIRT BARRED Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON. April 20. Much amusement was created at the Bfountmelllck board of guardians yesterday by a laborer named O'Neill applying for a wife. "She need not," he wrote, "be handsome, hand-some, but homelike and hard-working, as beauty le onlv skin deep, any anyone so gifted, especially ono of the female class, spcuds too much time at the looking look-ing glass during the day and neglects her household duties. She must bo a good, plain cook. With a Mountmolllek laborer's la-borer's wage, it Is very little she will have to do In the pastry line, and she must not be one of those tight-laced, hohble-nklrted hohble-nklrted ladtos of the present day who suffer so much from Indigestion ,and corns. I would like her to be a good singer or able to play some musical instrumenta in-strumenta mouth-organ or a melodeon." The chairman said Ihe lad who wrote that lottcr needed little assistance In selecting se-lecting a wife. |