Sunlight and shadow; . Auto-graphs — Levying Black-mail — Take Warning — Dr. Chalmers onAutographs — Demand for Photographs — Very like a Bore — Notlimited to Friends — Comical Arrangements of these Pictures — Sideby Side with the Gorilla. UBLIC men are liable to receive com-munications containing inquiries on allkinds of topics, asking questions on allIdnds of abstruse subjects, or makingthe most absurd propositions. I give aportion of a letter I received from alady: I will state my circumstances and wishes as brieflyas possible. I come to the point at once, and inform youthat I wish to get m
Sunlight and shadow; . Auto-graphs — Levying Black-mail — Take Warning — Dr. Chalmers onAutographs — Demand for Photographs — Very like a Bore — Notlimited to Friends — Comical Arrangements of these Pictures — Sideby Side with the Gorilla. UBLIC men are liable to receive com-munications containing inquiries on allkinds of topics, asking questions on allIdnds of abstruse subjects, or makingthe most absurd propositions. I give aportion of a letter I received from alady: I will state my circumstances and wishes as brieflyas possible. I come to the point at once, and inform youthat I wish to get man-ied, and I hope you will think none the worse ofme for thus making my wants known to one who must have a largecircle of acquaintances, like yourself. When a lady finds her hair fastbecoming threads of silver, and the crows-feet deepening in her face, itis time for her to begin to look out for herself, if she would not spend herdeclining days in loneliness, unloved and unloving,—a prospect that 315. 316 l WA^T TO GET MARRIED. I do not at all relish, unless I find that it be Gods will. If so, I mustmake the best of it. I am thirty-five years of age; very unprepossessingin appearance, having a dark complexion, plain, sad features; only fourfeet ten inches in height; weight ninety to ninety-eight pounds; andhealth quite variable, still good. Physicians have told me that I amjust as likely to live forty years as any one. My fathers home is in , away back in the country, where there is not a gentleman of my acquaintance that I would marry, even ifthey wished to marry me. I wish to get a kind, honest man, about fiftyjeavs of age, possessing common intelligence and refinement, and atleast property sufiicient to take care of himself and me; and he must bebetween fort3-five and sixty-five years of age, and a total-abstinenceman; Avidower preferred; also one who would care more for home andwife than society. And I, on my part, think I could be a true andaftectionate w
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