Show VI WRIT WRITES RIT ES S L LETTERS ETTERS ERS T TO O DEAD SPOUSE A Aged e Man Believes Mates Mate Spirit Reads Notes Sioux City CHr Iowa A A A stor story of love lovo i faithful in III death and through lonely years ealS after death I Is the story of Matthias MatthIas Matthias Mat Mat- thias Brown Drown eighty eight years ears old Every g du day for l 1 years ears the aged man has written a letter to his dead dead wife asking her advice telling of his troubles and sharing his Joys Each rach day Mr Ir Brown posts the letter letter letter let let- ter In his yard lie He believes that the tale spirit of his wife hovers close by and rends what he has hns written Mattl Matthias ins and und his wife lived happily i In lu Sioux City eay and reared a n family when they came to this country from German Germany Twelve years ago though Mrs Brown rown died The children grew older and married and soon the aged ged gedman man was left alone The day after his wife died Brown began writing letters to her He has continued that custom to this very day Each letter he lie places on a post postin in the middle of ot his yard ard There Is another cloud in the old oldmans oldmans mans man's heart however He cannot understand understand understand un un- wh why his wife does not answer his letters Its jo O lonesome s since nce she is gone he says but I 1 am getting old and soon I expect to join her on the other side Then we will go on forever justas Just Justas as we did Id before she slie passed away awny And so he goes on on writing wrIting letters letters to his wife resting now under a gravestone grave grav gravestone grave grave- stone covered with moss twelve years old |