Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1883 — Romantic Tramps. [ARTICLE]

Romantic Tramps.

A mysterious fact concerning these modem Enoch Ardens is that none of them come back 1 rich; none return handsome, strong or useful; all are in a condition that would justify a poorhouse or hospital in receiving them, and if their original wives take them in they will do so principally for the purpose of having some one on whom to expand surplus stores of liniments, bandages, lotions and other comforts for infirm persons. But imaged shirks and malingners really must have some one to take care of them, why do not they apply at the nearest poor-house instead of inflicting themselves on their wives’ second of third husbands. — New York Herald.