Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-06-02
The Story Of a Beautiful Young
Widow who Adertised for a Hus.
From the New Haven Palladium.


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| From the New Haven Palladium
In the latter part of February there
appeared in one of the New York
papers the following:
"A young widow, nineteen wears
of age, of high standing in society,
and having a large fortune in her
| own right, wishes to correspond with
thoroughly educated young man
of quail standing in society, with a
vie to matrimony. Photographs
exchanged. The season for resorting
To this method to obtain husband
will be satisfactorily explained Ad-
dress Millie Stanton. Station ID, New
York city.
Among the persons who answered
this advertisement was Il dashing
young gentleman who does not live
more than Il league from this city
His letter was very brief, but ouf1i-
ciently ample in its language to give
the yodhg widow of nineteen an idea
of what sort of fellow he was. The
young gentleman (whose name is
withheld at special request) inclosed
his"pictur,n and as it was IA very cor
rect presentmento ofa rather handsome
man, it seemed to make n quick inn
preston on the heart of his fair cor
tondent. \ few days later the
young gentleman received an answer
to his letter. This, like his own,
was brief, aud read as follows:
No.-, EiGHrH STREET,
NEW YORK, March ;.
DEAR SIR. / have received yours, ami an
swer at my earliest leisure / am favorably
impressed with your lace, rs Sbo": IN your
photograph, and send you mine hope it will
not dIaplease you II. after examining my
likeness, you think you might learn to luN me
| shall lac pleased Ia meet You on Thursday
evening next, at So.-EighIh street.
Respectfully, MILE
T.. ; Inquire for Mrs. DeForest, and do,, t
call before : o. clock
The missive was written in a deli
cate hand which showed culture
and caused the young gentleman
who had commenced the cOrreSpOn-
dence by way of Il joke To feel Il
little serious over the matter. The
picture of the young widow was that
OF IA very handsome woman; whuse
face wore aQ expression which
showed that the pride of birth and
fortune was i'll the blood that gave to
1t the rosy flash of beauty. Truth
makes 1t necessary to state that the
young man at once fell i'll love with
the face, and resolved To go down to
New York on the following Tuesday
and have an interview with its own
er. He, therefore. dropped "Millie"
a line and Expressed the hope that
she would not disappoint him by
her absence from home ut the time
she had appointed for the Interview
Between the time of the posting of
this letter and the visit OF our young
gentleman TO New York, nothing oc-
CURED beyond the reception OF Il sec
ond miSsive, assuring him that the
young widow" would be at home at
the time designated. Array ing him
self in his best" he went To- New
York, and at o'clock on the Tues
day evening appointed he walked up
the brown stone steps of a brown
stone front on Eighth street, and
pulled the door bell. This was an
swered by servant who ushered him
into the reception room. He WAS in
formed that Mrs. DeForeSt was sin, "
upon which he handed the servant
his card and requested its immediate
delivery to the young widow"
Shortly afterward the parlor door
opened, and a splendidly dressed
lady entered the room, and at once
approached the young man, seized
him by the hand and expressed her
pleasure at meeting him.
\ critical examination of the young
woman's features and "style" result
ed in the discovery "a one of the
handsomcst types OF beauty that our
gentleman had ever beheld. He
looked, and as he gaZed his heart was
smitten. She gazed, and as she
looked, she seemed To he 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: Il suppose We
might a. well talk about the matter
which we met to consider"
As she said this, she looked search
nglv, yet tenderly, into the eyes of
the young gentleman, and after II
moments pause, said: Il presume
YOU would like To know who | am,
and why | advertised for life part
ner, wouldn't YOU "' 'Certainly,'
replied our youn" gentleman, Il
have no objections"
At this Mrs. DeForest, the dashing
young widow, in want of "A hus sband,
began narrative which it is not
necessary here To give at length.
She told how She had married, how
her husband died while they were
travelling in Europe how he left her
AN immense property valued at near
ly Il million of dollars, how Il humid
red young fellows had offered her
their hands and hearts, how she had
resolved to marry stranger If she
could find one suited to her mind, ~
how her relatives had consented 10
this course, and how constant her
efforts would he To make the man
happy with whom she might enter
the bonds of wedlnck. 80 rapidly
did the strange beauty talk that our
young man found il difficult Ia get
IN a single word edgrWays," +" as the
saying goes. She continued her story,
/ which was of marvellous adventure.
considering that the narrator was 50
/ young and ~ beautiful and had lust
/ begun Ia explain her pedigree, when
mans Voice ia the hallway out
side, said Nv here's Annie ~ At
I the same time ii gentleman opened
the door and entered the parlor.
"Luok ere, lie said, addressing the
daehn@ young widow, you 20 up
stairs. Up to Your old tricks
again, l see. l supposed You were,
aud That the reason why ! watched
! y0u."
This interruption broke the suS