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Show She Tossed Up. J' Roscoe Conkling told a group of lawyers law-yers the other day of having just been tempted to take, up a divorce case, although al-though he had eschewed that branch of practice, because the fair litigant had interested in-terested him in the recital of her wrongs by disclosing the manner in which she had chosen her husband. "I had two suitors, she narrated, "and thev were just about equal in good looks, agre'eableness, social position and outlook for fortune. They popped the question within two davs of each other. I really had no preference. prefer-ence. I suppose I didn't care much for either. The day came in which" I was to give answers. I couldn't make up my mind, so I flipped up a cent, 'head for Jim and tail for Bob,' and that was how I decided." She took the chances, and they went against her, for she got a husband hus-band who ill-treated her and became a worthless scamp, while the rejected suitor is a possessor of riches and fame. Albany Journal. |