, 1875-06-20

in other words, fair, fat, and forty; this
would be a rare combination with "musical
talent" There is one young woman of e1-
cept;ona11y good taste who calls the portlcu-
1ar attention Of editors to her advertisement !;
ws 75gret to announce to the local press that
she lives in Vermont Another is not 50 for
tunate in her announcement. She wants Q
gentleman under 80 years who viii read
.<long letters, think Of marrying woman
who Deliberately starts out in life by writing
"long letters aud threatens to keep it up !
One advertiser offers an admirable scope
for young womnn with reformatory aspira-
tons He confesses his object to be that Of
securing wife stwhose moral influence will
oyerrule my vices, aud fit me for home
circle" Here is an opportunity for moral
girl to do more good than by teaching class
in sunday-school It is worthy Of note that
farmers daughters are in active demand;
and, if the matrimonial journal is q fair
gauge OF the average male sentiment,
knowledge Of housekeeping is preferred to
the more polite accomplishments A very
pretty picture '' A widow without children,
s3 years Of age, medium height, amiable dis
position, dark-brown hair, blue eyes, and
passionately fond Of flowers" It seems
Us if balmy breeze from the
Sonth were Whiting the rich odors
Of exotics, redolent OF magnolia aud Night
Blooming Cereus, and gently tanning the
heated brow of an overworked newspaper
man, reclining for the nonce in swinging
thing SO poetic, delicate, and sensuous about
the widows advertisement that she must have
been captured, we fear, before this additional
notice OF her charms Gun help her to make
selection. II not, We advise her against the
young gentleman who is labeled No sos, who
is feet inches high, has "speculated large
1y in the oil regions, figured with the
bulls and bears Of New York, and
won 1aurels on the battlefield Of
Antieta1n." He is man for the romantic
widow, fond Of flowers, to avoid; SO much
sweetness should not be wasted on mere
speculator. There is one rara acss~ among
the feminine candidates who ought to be in
mortalized, under the designation OF "No.
502"; she is young woman nearly seVeu-
teen-sweet sixteen, in fact-who sis not
vain when told that she is handsome and |
who wants to marry for the nnsel6sh purpose
of "mnking some gentleman's home little
Eden" It is safe to say that that young
woman will never die an old maid. There |
are many unique specimens Of humanity who
want to marry. One man proclairns himself |
in advance t'to be strictly in favor Of wom-
an'srights"; he ought to be hem -pecked hus- |
band Then there is "a poor orphan without |
= relative in this wide, wide world, who de-
sires to correspond with some young Indy |
't who will take pity on him and say yes"
and, finally, here is an aztffu1 woman, whose
address we do not give on account of her evi-
lent deception, and who endeavors to cap
:ure a bachelor with chat like this:
&C I'LL SOME BACHELOR WHO Is TIRED OF
'exins t. spesS, snd raine ropoa, ho sha hs1s ~
no hundred and tWenty-hve pounds !
We wish that the matrimonial Journal of
chicago, which claims to have had life Of
IL years, contained nothing but matrimonial
but, unfortunately, it has
'ther advertisements which do not speak well
or the police authorities and Post Office man.
cement in this city. It takes advantage Of
be ally people who want to marry by ad-
to bring to their notice an sorts
+ quack books, such as s.: How to Get Rch,"
The Art Of C1airvoyance," ** Love Making
ecrets, " J" Confidential Advice to Lover"
The Secrets Of Handkerchief, Fan, Glove,
nd Personal Firtations, and q good many
ther things more hurttu1 and more disgust
,g which we do not care even to name We
nagine that thera would be just as many |
larriages without this official matrimonial
'urnal, and We know there would be con-
derahy more decency and purity. Il