, 1874-11-15
HOW THEY Do IT ABROAD,


come settled thing abroad It does not do it's
good deeds by stealth or through ambiguous ad-
vertisements. but openly. 1t trumpets through
the daily press its trade OF uniting the iry, prop
erly decorated with gold-leaf, to the oak. Hav-
ing 80 many women, with such-and-such for
tunes, on haad. it offers them to tho highest
bidder With all imaginable 'grarity. The
great seat OF the trade is in Paria- There tho
ardent lover can have tho dowry OF the object Of
his pockets alteration Asccrtained, and, it
proves insufficient, can have object No. 2, No. 3,
aud 80 on I'D tninluna, Supplied until the precise
compound OF good looks and heavy bank
accounts which he desires has been found.
The anxious maid OF widow may in
like manner discover exactly how deeply
indebted is her wooer. and can then calcu-
late, with an admirable prudence usually
wanting amid the delusions OF love, whether she
will take this one, or wait in single cussedness
until she can buy husband cheaper. The
Parisian agency Ii cosmopolitan. It is willing
to provide husbands and wives, On demand, in
any market. We translate from an Italian paper
this frank advertisement:
MARn1AoEs--The Discreet Catalogue Conf
dence-house founded In 1860. Loyalty, discretion,
aud quickuess. II. Andre, Rue -, Psr+s.
A widow, Is, fortune, 10000 francs.
4 widow, 80, fortune, 1000 200 #.
A widow, 10, fortune, 900 fr.
widow, Sc, fortune, 50o, 600 fr.
A widow 4s. income, $1,000 Fl.
An orphan. Is, dowry, soc. .o00 #.
An orphan, 20, do~ry, 1,ooo.ooofr.
4 young Lady, q, dowry, 2o9, 900 II.
young lady, 81, doWry, 1500, 900 II.
A young lady, q, dowFy, 800 00u #.
Note-The above Hst Ia only aslight sketch Of what
the Discreet Catalogue can offer. Every serious lot.
ter expecting m answer must contain 10 francs.
It will be noticed that this appropriately
named nadiso1 de confance mentions no males in
its list OF desirable matches It would be an un-
war1antable inference, however, to suppose that
it is only women who avail themselves Of these
agencies. Lists OF manageable males are occa-
sionally published. It is amazing to learn from
them how many good-looking men OF noble birth
are willing to be bought by any woman, old or
}young, pretty or ugly, whose fortune is big
anough to pay the price they set On their
charms. The male population OF Berlin, julged
by its matrimonial advortlsoments, considers
cash as the ono element needed in connubial
bliss. Occasionally too-fastidious perBon stip-
ulatea TINT the feminine incu1nbrauco on the
estate he wishes to marry must not be OF low
birth or extreme usliness but this il An excer-
tion. The Vossache Zeitung prints any number
Of notices to the effect that So-and-so. banker,
merchant officer, lawyer, ETC., hs the case may
be, wishes to marry lady Of 40 much fortune,
who may be old, ugly, and OF doubtful
family. Nay, some Of these advertis-
ers ara willing to present themselves
1t the altar Of Hymen aud Mammon with brides
OF Indifferent character, provided the purse they
carry be weighty enough! Another queer fes-
ture Of German matrimonial advertisement il
the number Of persons who wiah to contract Pla-
tonic unions. Now it is gentleman - of ripe
age" who believes in 1.-THE Platonic idea OF
love and wishes to *'realize this beautiful idea
in marriage" and now it is man of fno social
standing who is, as he phrases it, "not
young" who wishes to "form I purely
Platonic connection with lady Of Heart
and Intellect" Even these purely Pla-
tonic persons have keen lookout for caeh.
The first regards '' : lady not entirely without
fortune" ~ prerequisite 10 the bestorl ot