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Show MAKE THEM LONG FOR MATE One Road to Matrimony That Is Said to Be Almost Certainly Productive Produc-tive of Results. "Take beautiful care of him for three months, and then leave him," is Mrs. Roger A. Pryor's merry formula formu-la for bringing the most obdurate de-crier de-crier of matrimony under the yoke. For three months during war time Mrs. Pryor made her headquarters at the house of a country postmaster, a Quaker and a widower. He was absent ab-sent all day, and rarely returned till after midnight, for the last mall had to be sorted and ready for delivery to the soldiers In the morning. Every night she made sure that he should find on his return "a bright fire, a clean-swept hearth, and on plates before the fire, biscuits, sausages sau-sages or broiled ham and a little pot of coffee, and a table with a lamp and the latest papers drawn up beside his armchair." The result of her considerate care was shown when, a short time after her departure, she received this brief epistle: "Respected friend. I have now mar-; ried. f couldn't stand It. Thy friend, I. W." A traditional village idyll of New England exemplifies In a similar manner man-ner the southern lady's theory; It, too, has a Quaker hero. He was a bachelor, and something of a woman-hater, woman-hater, who for many years lived undisturbed un-disturbed with an aged father. Then the old man fell ill, and had to have a nurse. She proved to be a kind and capable soul, who, in such a mismanaged home, did not confine her ministrations to the sick room. The second week after she had ended her services she received this love letter: "Esteemed Friend Almira: I have always said I would not marry because be-cause thy sex talks too much and will ever say the last word; but now I know that thee, at least, will never talk too much, unless to say no; and if thee say no, thee will not be saying the last word, for I shall still have a word to say. Thee will perceive I entertain thoughts of marrying, and have come'to thee, as to a sober, discreet dis-creet and delectable woman, for thy good advice. Almira, what does thee say?" Almira said "Yes." Youth's Companion. |