Herbert's Weekly from Hiawatha, Kansas • 8

HKRBEIIT'S WEEKLY. Romances From Real Life By E. W. Howe school girl who has been hugged at school dances by other girls or by boys. He said he cured a girl of dancing once.

He told her to stand up on a platform before the Sunday school and show the position she took in dancing. The girl was so ASHAMED that she never danced again. Nothing mean about Edgar W. North, of Brooklyn, N. Y.

He has $3,000 and wants a wife. He insists that his wife must be between the age of 25 and 30; must be good looking, a good cook, have an amiable disposition, and be willing to live on a farm. But then when a man has $3,000 he has a right to make demands of the woman he marries. According to the papers New York society girls gave a play for charity last week and what do you think they gave? "The Mistletoe Bough." It is a pantomine and has been presented by every country town amateur dramatic club for hundreds of years. It tells the story of the bride who hid in a chest on her wedding night and when she was found fifty years later, she was only a little pile of dust: she was recognized by her wedding dress.

Mrs. J. C. Smiley, wife of the rector of a New York Episcopal church, telephoned to the police one night the first of this week saying, "Come quick." The police did and found that Stephen D. Trask had flown into a passion, terrorizing his family.

He had knocked his brother, Charles, unconscious and pushed out three of his front teeth. The New York papers say: "The families are prominent socially New York must be just awful. In poetry "Watching and Waiting for Thee," means a pretty girl waiting for her lover, but it is different in real life. Three years ago David A. Davenport, of Denver, was divorced from his wife, Mattie Davenport.

The judge ordered him to pay his divorced wife alimony. He ran away. Mrs. Mattie Davenport watched and waited. She had some detectives help her.

Result she caught her divorced husband, had him arrested, and he is now in jail. Miss Greta Atoppulis (New York people have such funny names) of New York, and George E. Etienne were engaged to be married. Miss Atoppulis went to Europe where she claims she met a millionaire who begged her to marry him. She cabled George Etienne what he thought about it, and he came over on the next steamer to tell her by no means to marry the millionaire.

Now Etienne refuses to marry Miss Atoppulis, and she asks for $10,000 damages on acount of having refused that millionaire. Queer New York: Miss Helen Marguerite Wilson, 35 years old, and George Henderson, 23, both of New York, were married in a Chicago hotel the first of this week. The reporters tried to find out something about the couple but the bride would only giggle when asked a question, and the groom silently glowered. After a day or two the bride came through with the story: She said she had raised the groom by hand. That just before the wedding she had given him $4,000,000 a $75,000 steam yacht, a private car, and three automobiles for wedding presents.

That she expected to pay him $250,000 a year, and take him to Europe on a wedding trip. This is the way a widow should act: Mrs. Obediah Banks, of Upper Sandusky, 0., died at the close of her husband's funeral on Tuesday of this week. Physicians pronounced her death due to excessive grief over the loss of her husband. sc i)c The telegraph must have its little joke: It says that if any one should pull Herbert 0.

Manley's leg there would be something doing. Manley lives in Washington, D. 0. He went to the Klondike and made $200,000. He carries his fortune, according to the telegraph, in the hollow calf of his artificial leg.

Mrs. Florence Kelly, of New York, addressed the State Consumer's league (whatever that is) of New York, one day last week, saying that the men who used the telephone in the night called the telephone girls "Dearie," and invited them out to supper, and said SOMETHING MUST BE DONE. The telegraph did not state what the State Consumer's league decided to do about it. You often hear about how women Forgive: Here is the way one woman Forgave: Her husband, P. H.

Fay, ran away with another woman a year ago, leaving his wife in Rochester, N. Y. She has hunted for him ever since. She found him last week in Denver, penniless, and sick. Did she Forgive? NOt She had him put in jail and he is there now awaiting to be tried for wife desertion.

The telegraph is rather poky of late, and here is about the best it can do In the twenty-four years of his life Walter L. Gardner, of St. Charles, has suffered twenty-four bone fractures and five dislocations, besides the loss of one finger on his right hand and three on his left. Gardner's run of bad luck began when at the age of four years his sister dropped him, breaking his right leg. Here is the complete list: Right leg broken once; right arm broken twice; left arm broken eight collarbone broken once; breastbone broken once; ribs broken nine; jaw bone broken once; dislocations, five; fingers lost, four.

Mame Taylor, of Patchogue, L. and May Budd Roe, of Philadelphia, went to school together twenty-five years ago, and have been chums ever since until a few days ago, when May found out that Mame had been a snake in the grass. May's husband, George Roe, was ill, and she took advantage of his illness to go through his pockets. She found letters from a woman, in which George was called: "My Lover," "My Comrade," "My Golden Spur," "My heart's fondest, truest, purest love: my joy." The letters were signed "The Woman Who Understands." It was Mame! May Budd Roe was furious she has brought suit for divorce. The students of the Denver university have been accustomed to dancing one or two evenings out of the week.

There were not as many boys as girls and so the girls danced with each other. But they will have to find some other amusement: Dean Herbert A. Howe has told the university that dancing is hugging set to music, and that the fact that girls dance with each other does not make it any more decent. He says HE would not like to marry a.