Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-20
Millie Tho Story Of a Beautiful Young
Widow who Advertised for q Husband.

Widow who Advertised for Husband.
In the latter part of February, says the
New Haven Palladium, there appeared
in one of the New York papers the fol
lowing advertisement
"a young widow, nineteen years Of
age, of high standing in society, and
having large fortune in her own right,
wishes to correspond with thoroughly
educated young man of equal standing
in society, with a view TO matrimony.
Photographs exchanged. The reason
for resorting to this method to obtain a
husband will be satisfactorily explained.
Address Millie Stanton, Station d, New
York City" el
Among the persons who answered this
advertisement was dashing young gem
tleman who does not live more than q
league from this city. His letter was
very brief, but sufficiently ample in its
snguage to give the young widow OF
n .ineteen an idea of what sort of fellow
he was. The young gentleman (whose
ma me is withheld at special request) en-
clio. .,ed his "picter," and as it was very
correct presentment of rather hand
som man, il seemed to make a quick
impression on the heart of his fair cor
respondent. A few days later the young
gentleman received an answer to his let
ter. This, like his own, was brief, and
read al, follows:
No. EIGHTH STREET. /
NEW York, March 2. J .
DrAK Sir: | have received yours, and
answer at my earliest leisure. am fa-
yorably impressed with your face, as
shown in your photograph, and send you
mine, which hope will not displease yeu.
If, afttr examining my likeness, you
think you might learn to love me, / shall
be pleased to meet you on Tuesday eve-
ming next, at No. - Eighth street.
Respectfully, MILE.
P.S. INQUIRE for Mrs. DeForest, and
don't call before eight o'clock:
This mlssive was written in o delicate
hand. which showed culture, and caused
the young gentleman who had com
menced the correspondence by way of a
Joke to feel a little serious over the mat
ter. The picture of the young widow
was the like ness of an exceedingly hand
some young woman, whose face wore an
expression which showed that the pride
o,e birth and fortune was in the blood that
% We to it the rosy flash of beauty. Truth
makes il necessary for us to state that
the young gentleman at once fell in love
with the face, aud resolved to go down to
New York on the following Tuesday, and
have an interview with its owner. de
therei ore dropped "M,llie q line, au-
nouno ing his intention of calling, and ex-
presse, the hope that she would not dis
appoint him by her absence from home
at the tins she had appointed for an in
terview- 4-I t--
Betw cen the time of the posting OF
this letter and the visit of the young
gentleman to New York nothing oc-
Cured beyond the reception OF a second
missive assuring him that the young
widow" would be at home at the time
designated. Arraying himself in his
"best," he went to New York, and at
eight o'clock on the Tuesday evening
appointed be walked up the brown,stone
steps of brown-stone front on Eighth
street, and pulled the door-bell. This
was answered by q servant, who ushered
him into the reception-room. de was
informed that MIRA. DeForrest was in,
moon which he handed the servant his
ca-d, and requested its immediate de-
live-y to the young widow" Shortly
afteryard the parlor door opened, and q
snleuoid-dressed lady entered the room,
and at once approached the young man,
seized him by the hand, and expressed
her Measure at meeting him.
A critica examination of the young
ful
in the discovery of one ofthe handsomest
types of beauty that our gentleman had
ever beheld. Ee looked, and as he gazedi
his heart was amitten. She gazed, and
as sbe looked she seemed TO be delighted
with the manly form before her. After
some ordinary talk about the weather,
lent and the opera, the young widow,
suddenly changing the subject, said: " i
mnuose we might as well talk about the
matter which we have met to consider
As she said this, she locked searching
lv vet tenderly, into the eyes OF the
| Young gentleman, and, after moment
nause, said, 81 presume you would like
10 know who am, and why advertised
\ for mariner, wouldn't you 7" Ger
tainly," replied our young gentleman
AZ have no objections.
Al this Mrs. DeForrest-the dashlng
vounr widow in want of husband
began a narrative which is not necessary
here TO give at length. She told how she
had married, how ber husband died while
thew were travelling in Europe, how he
| left her an immense property, valued al
nearly a million of dollars, how hundreds
of Young fellows had offered her their
hands and hearts, how she had re-
solved TO marry stranger, II shs
could find one suited to her mind,
how her relatives had consented to TINS
course. aud how constant her Efforts
would be TO make the man happy With
whom she might enter the bonds OF wed
lock. So rapidly did the strange beauty
talk that our young gentleman ionna II
| difficult to get ia q single WORD cage
ways as the saying goes. She con-
tinued her story, which was one OF mar
yelous adventure, considering that the
narrator was so young and so beautiful !
and had just begun to explain her peoi
gree. when mans voice IN The hsllSay
J outside ssid, Where's Aonie Alih'