| Show I ra t d rl r f WHERE DID YOU MEET V YOUR V WIFE PEOLE do Jo get gt married married- ece even in i Of course Ive I've got to work a little N New Y York York- k The Th j f act act is established r steadier now he added But sometimes some some- lish lisped d hc beyond o d que question ti and presumably pre pre- THA THAT'S T S t the h e. e QUESTION ran an and d ti times es when when Ma Mary thinks I a aint t n t quite they the y meet before they mate systematic a lc enough no gh I kind o 0 like tc HERES HERE'S th the ANSWER a as remind her er How Now does don it happen s What in in- influences e. e r causes what are arc at accessories work what before contributory the fact f act F. F Furnished urn IS h e d. d b by y a V Varied ane d ee RIGHT I GH T here herein in this ms store tore said said a Is it true as some scientists claim that corner grocer She came in ind marriage is a result of harmonious Assortment 0 of Hus Husbands b an d s one d day ay t to get a a pound of prunes that atomic vibration Nature not caring in inthe they didn't didn t have at her regular grocery the least about harmony of acquired and then she came back bac the next day tastes a and d education Or has it been heen and got some more things things a and d then the result of f haphazard propinquity a chaotic condition which th the she c came me In in pr pretty tty near every da day for day for three y years ars getting prettier an and must straighten out Is love lote at f first first sight a delusion o or a natural law prettier each time We used to josh each other back and for forth h until tl Is it a matter maller of sudden int intuition ilion or was was teas that South Norwalk couple right we finally got on pretty good terms and then I I got to delivering her herin in stretching out their engagement for f or thirty five years wailing f for their loveto love orders myself I dont don't know how I came to propose I dont don't believe to to ripen With these problems enu in mind I looked all up the married married men menI I di did but a about out the end of th the third year a we just found ourselves I 1 could f find and asked the question HoBy Ho How w DI DID you meet your wife i t getting gettIn married She's She s a good wife but but bui It its it's s an awful blow to business B By y Ch Charles ar I e W W. W Wood 00 d. d T to marry your best customer I s V n T J I DIDN'T meet my soy wife wife said the first a wi writer ter of humorous I T HAD Interviewed about forty benedicts before I found one who had I st stories ries who began his New York career on the staff of a large met his wife in church I do not attach any significance to this as asI journal She met me I was wag wa standing in the office waiting to I am inclined to believe that the church functions in New York still see the editor when she blew in the most charming vision of energetic V serve as great social centres centres' But in this particular matrimonial life life that Id I'd ever seen I think Im I'm the the most bashful man in N New w York straw vote vote the church figured only once A city editor told me that still but it isn't a shadow to what I was in those days I I couldn't look he and the girl he married taught adjoining classes in the same Sunday Sun Sun- at her her and yetI yet yet I couldn't keep my eyes off her I just stood there and d day ys school hool twiddled with my ny hat and felt her giving me the once once o over er Then she And that was in Chicago 1 t I goes over I heard this a year after and asks asks' the bookkeeper who the i 1 supercilious g guy y was Pretty soon she comes comesup up and takes akes both of my TH HE dance proved d by all odds the greatest maker of matrimony trembling hands and says So youre you're the funny man are you you Well And vAnd the experience of my artist friend I 1 found was not entirely if you are prove it n now w by saying the funniest thing I ever heard unique A saloon keeper answered m my question by bya by a glowing description Did you say s something funny I asked tion of a costume ball Sure I said Lets get married t 1 1 be more weddings he said if women didn't Did she laugh at you you This girl gul had hd on one of those Robin Hood costumes and I thought Id I'd She didn't th think it was funny he answered j but she he said yes a afew ne never never er sera seen s anything so beautiful in my l life e. e Id I'd ne never er seen her before few days afterward and we were married in six months but I would a a got married right there t i y Did you marry her soon soon I asked f WHY HY Y there wasn't any romance about ours said raid a young No No Nohe he said She invited me to her house and introduced me meto printer who was married only a few weeks weeks' ago ago I was introduced in in- in- in into to toiler her younger sister I married the sister to my wife by another girl and that's all ll there was was to it You Your know Im I'm English and decidedly pro The girl was English Eng A T a sane of the Club said an engin engineer rY rYo who o married a atoo atoo too and that formed a kind of bond between us trained nurse I I went to the dance on purpose purpose to meet another And the girl who introduced you was English 1 asked I girl No he said she was German I lived in a house full of Germans Did you expect to m marry rry Y the other girl I asked and they used to guy me so that she kind land o 0 pitied She said I No matter master atter me reminded re re- man expects to marry he said For that no man minded her of a girl in the shop the only English girl in a whole bunch ever marries Women marry but when they speak of a man man haven't of G Germans she thought America was all aU German and she tore down an you you noticed they always say he gets m married P t American flag the girls had put up to tease tease her That got me interested s. s a and I got her address I r wrote to her and she answered and we cor car corresponded carTT IT TT was at Palm Beach said a journ journalist list who Is enjoying his second responded for a few weeks and then Miss Mis Schwartz brought her over to matrimonial venture ventur the house to meet ma me e. e all there was to it There wasn't any r. r Yes Yes but I want the details I said the extenuating ci circumstances ms an s r romance romance My answer was perfectly definite he replied It is evident that you haven't been to Palm Beach I had made up ilp up my my mind before I I T HAD been told by artists that art and domesticity will not mix I went that I would never get married again I want to warn any man know an artist who is a living refutation of this statement He is an who intends to keep a similar resolution not to go to Palm Beach Stay artist who has made good art director for a le leading ding magazine and one in New York where you cant can't be romantic t of the happiest married men I know How did you meet your w wife fe I asked I T MET my wife in the s subway said the next benedict I questioned i How did I meet her her he repeated That isn't the point at all aU I I used to get on at the One Hundred and Sixty-eighth Sixty street I went to a dance walked upstairs upstairs' behind her in love on the station every very morning just as near t to 8 o'clock as I could figure it I Iway Iway way up I might as well admit it I fell in love witha with a pair of legs As noticed her one morning and the next morning she was there again soon as as s I got upstairs I rushed to the first person I knew new to get an anin in introduction in- in The Th next morning I didn't see her and I let three trains go hoping that to the owner We were wre married a week or so after No I I would The next morning I was there at and she came soon dont don't recommend the formula All All' I can say is th that it it t worked we well l in after I tell you its it's all nonsense to say that a man doesn't take our case and Im I'm glad it happe happened ed l I I the initiative in love matters It took me mes me three weeks to find out where she worked but I kept at it until I did find out Then I took tooka I T DONT DON'T reme remember ber said a Yorkville b business sinesS man who wh is said to chance a one day and called up the office on th the telephone when I Iwas be an exceptionally hap happy y husband I I was a book binder then was as pretty sure shed she'd be at the switchboard v ff I was straight t about and so was she We worked in m the same shop together og ther and just got it told her I want wanted d to get an introduction but but I couldn't until I knew acquainted that's all Then I got to taking her out and we kept company com corn her name pany pang for ten years both of us working and both of us having the time time V of our lives This sight love stu stuff f is all rot What a couple c IT TT'S TS T'S none of your business said the last lastman man I int interviewed Bet Be wants to do is to get acquainted and acquainted e and and believe me we enjoyed ed it t l sides you know the whole story anyway No I dont don't I said I only know that you me met in the cemetery ry T PUT the question to a social worker w who is now ow hold holding g a r responsible where I w re you were decorating your first wife wife's s grave and she was putting i J job under the City Gov Government His wife was with him at the flowers o. o e on her first husbands husband's plot I dont don't know how you you came to time Both looked suddenly fr frightened s speak Peak T told he asked Who you you 4 e 1 Oh if that's all you want he e ans answered e ed I 1 had dr dropped some No told I answered Im I o one me m asking t the e question of every- every 1 1 papers out of my Tny coat pocket while 1 I was bending over and she picked body S them up and ran after me Taint all would do that women They Oh Ohl he sal said No No names or PI pictures tures Well you know I was was was' were valuable papers some of em ema em a deed to a house in Yonkers and a invited to a wedding and I fell in love with the bride i insurance policy r r f c I e T A ACQUIRED that I Ive I've a wife said a philosophic railroad man m man in the same same h T I ADVERTISED for mine said a E lawyer No I 1 didn't menA men men- nen ve acquired everything else worth way ay while It A was vas as by tion in the advert advertisement t that I for wife I was was' looking g a said saidI neglecting m my y duty b by deliberately deliberate elY Y dm doing what I w wanted t to do when I I I wanted a stenographer and I thought I did although I hadn't had knew I shouldn't t do it Why railroading is IS the best job b I had J ever and andI three clients in six m. m months and neither she e nor I c could figure out out why that through getting souse soused and fired fIre from an I got a job I never could I had hired her A at six great months he added Not though Nothing plug Then when I at went vent make good railroading I use used ed to lay layoff off ff every on earth to do and th the prettiest little girl in town to help me do it could find borrow and I an excuse in time money run m debt till I just lust a had to get back to work Then She final finally decided that I n needed ee d e d' d a manager n no not of t a s stenographer t h r r rone shy and a and who wa was it t one time when I was right up say who against it the Y M M. C. C said ald t that at worn women en go going 1 n g into business would break A. A got up an amateur ai up the home omel My play and said I had to be bein a r 1 M in m it I couldn't I-couldn't afford r a brother bother Bill Ill the the d druggist drug drug- the time but it looked gist has just married his like so so some a fun and I laid al I l i clerk tier k and were we're betting off again Then I met two to one that Tommy the leading lady and married mar mar- my y o other her brother marries mar mars J ried sled her ries les his before the year e r j j is IS out |
