"My ideal must be tall," suggests Miss Mary Hester, from Wayland,
N. Y., "and a gentleman in every sense of the word. He must be of
good standing socially and morally. He must be of temperate habits,
kind, generous, affectionate, devoted--a man of ability, who would
be a companion socially, intellectually and morally to a true, pure,
devoted wife."
She says she would ask for no more.
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[Illustration: "READ US 'BOUT WHUT DE FOLKS IN PITTSBURG AN' NEWPORT
IS UP TO."]
[Illustration: "I'D RUTHER BE MARRIED TO A WOMAN WHO WAS REFORMIN'
THINGS OUTSIDE DE HOUSE DAN IN HIT."]