The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1875-03-06


shoes, announce the fact in Il hcartlcssl,
complacrnt fashion. An only child, ;
sweet thing Of twenty-five, says she vii
come into 81 large amount at the death O
her parcnts;' and highly educated, very
fair, very pretty, very jolly Miss Lucy,
displays her jolly disposition by stating
that i'll addition to the two thousand
pounds she will receive ut her marriage,
four times that amount will be hers upon
the death of her father, "who is now
scrcnty-Gvc."
Actuatcd by the hope of inspiring the
pity akin TO love, or perhaps thinking n
brides value enhanced by the absence of
mothcr-in-law, NO fewer than forty-thrce
enter the matrimonial lists is orphans.
y Bondiy proportion Of these lonely ones
are provided with worldly gear. Rosa,
aged twcnty-siX, not pretty, but very fns-
| cinating, has Il small landed estate and
six hundred year 10 bcstow upon gen
tlcman of umtloubted responsibility.
Eva, aged thirty-four, with a pleasing
face, slight figure, i'll perfect health,
blessed with an active, happy tcmpcra-
mcut, who does not dislike the country
but hates everything false, false hair in
c!udcd, would make Il devoted wife Ia /.
man Of picty, culture, honor and means.
Some of these feminine appeals may
have been inserted for the fun of the
thing. no doubt; the majority appear
genuine enough, but we cannot believe in
any "Iady Charlotte" being reduced To
the ignominious necessity of putting her
daughter up for public competition in
this style: "Matrimony-A lady of title,
with an only daughter just nineteen, is
wiShiul to see her well settled in life.
She is considered attractive, and will
have twenty-five thousand pounds when
of age. Gentlemen of social position
and ample means only treated with"
The unorth0doX method of obtaining
wife, by advertisement, is sanctioned by
the example Of twenty-five clcrgymcn.
Most of them are Church Of England Gu
rates, having pcnchant fo! wcll-cducatcd
ladies of thirty or thcrcaboutS; but an
active, energetic, healthy Presbyterian
Clergyman, i0nd of riding, or driving a
good horse, who, his female friends say,
would make one of the best and kindcst
of husbands, offers himself to any scnsi-
bic, kindhcartc,l, and good-looking girl
with thousand pounds in cash, or an in
come of fifty pounds IL year.
Three physicians, in good practice, and
twice us many surgeons, make up the tale
of matrimonial aspirants. Art is repre-
scntcd by solitary individual, and liter
aturc by gentleman standing five feet
nine and II half inches, with dark hair
and beard, holding n leading position on
Il weekly paper. This speaks well for
art and literature.
Ladies of an agricultural turn of mind
may possibly find u man just suited to
them among the five gentleman TURNER'S,
and the three farmers who arc not gentle
men. Merchants arc more plentiful, the
most notable Of the twenty three being
Lancashire bachelor, of plain and simple
tastes, religious, but by no means ascctic
cast of mind; who has set his heart unon
winning the hand of warm hearted
English country lady, but stipulates that
she ''must have head rs we'll rs hands in
domestic affairs, and, above all, picty is
indcspcnsably requisite" Eighty-scvcn
bachelors, who would he Bcncdicts, call
themselves gentlemen. Some appear to
have nothing but their gcntility to support
them, and want wife who would take
that Office on herself. Some nrc country
gentlemen with valuable estates.
How FAR the marriage rate Of the United
Kingdom has been affected by the cstab-
iislncnt Of the wv means Of intcrcommu-
nicatinn between the sexes VIC cannot tell
but of one thing we feel no doubts, that
not few of its aidrrS and abcttors bitterly
regret they ever heard Of its existence
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