Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1914 — IT IS WHISKERS OR WIDOW [ARTICLE]

IT IS WHISKERS OR WIDOW

Having to Lose One or the Other, Man Sighs and Sacrifices His Beloved Alfalfa.

Frederick, Md.—Emanuel C. Fink, flfty-two years old and divorced, who has advertised for a wife, says he wouldn’t live single 12 more years for the best farm in county. Twelve years ago Fink was divorced, after, he says, ten years of happy married life. Now he wants to marry again, and there are 20 widows in this county who now stand ready to start the wedding bells ringing. • Fink is hale, hearty, fairly good looking, and has a luxurious fcrown beard, the pride of his heart. -But a widow, pretty, fifty, and the mother of six youths, in one of whom Fink has taken a particular liking, writes the wife-hunter that she “detests” beards, and if he hopes to become her husband he must go at once to a barber. Fink was thunderstruck when he received this letter. At first he was steadfast and clung lovingly to his favorite adornment, but said a few hours later, after evident meditation, that .be “guessed” it would have to go, ” ’cause 1 like that wldder.” '