Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1881 — The Golden Opportunity Slipped from Her. [ARTICLE]

The Golden Opportunity Slipped from Her.

A dairyman in Floyd County, lud., having settled it to his own satisfaction that a certain widow whom he was supplying with milk would make him an excellent wife, rang his bell in front of her house, and when she came out with her pan, addressed her ns follows: “I want a wife. I have a good dairy of fifteen good cows. We rise at throe o'clock in the morning; we have rye coffee for breakfast, with skimmed milk, but no sugar for seasoning. You need not get up so early, and you may have cream in your coffee. We have bean soup once a week; we have boiled cabbage once a week, and kraut onoe a week. We occasionally have some bacon. But we do not use butter, for it is too expensive, and use lard in its place. We work liardand live saving. I have told you all, and would like to marry you.” The widow thanked him, said she preferred her own table, and told him he would better propose to his next customer.