People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — Experienced Kentucky Woman’s Choice. [ARTICLE]

Experienced Kentucky Woman’s Choice.

The Paris News tells of a queer character who for a number of years has been an inmate of the Bonrbon county infirmary. “She is 75 years old, is now living with her seventh husband and has changed her religion five times. As the widow of her sixth husband she was entitled to a pension, and application for the bounty was quiokly followed by a request for a permit to take unto herself husband No. 7, who is blind. Being advised that the marriage would invalidate her pension olaim, she was told to choose between a pension and a husband. She meditated a moment and replied : ‘ldon’t know the value of a pension, but I do know a husband’s value. Gimme the husband.’”—Louisville Courier-Journal.