The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-02-07
A CHICAGO ENrERrRIsE.

metropolis of daring enterprises and DOUBT
full extremes Amidst its virtues and vices,
which spring spontaneously from the same
soil, and bud and bloom in the same rank
and malarious atmosphere, there are pro-
duced .crops of crime that annU
ally compel those who are endeavor
to review their conclusions and reconstruct
their tables, and there are at the same time
garnered harvests of virtue and good deeds,
so abundant that the best authenticated
facts have the flavor of fiction, and what
elsewhere would be set down as the crea-
tons of a diseased fancy are every day oc-
currences in Chicago. Nothing in Chicago
life and incidents is more consistent
than contradictions and nothing more GER
tain than doubts. The supreme law of
Chicago is habit, and the prevailing idea of to-
day may be obsolete tomorrow. Subjected
TO the refining influences of fire. the dross
was not eliminated, and if the waters of the
Michigan were to baptize the city, the
necessity for a reimmersion would reappear
in twenty-four hours. Evidently Chicago is
nice place for journal devoted to
Glove, courtship and marriage" and the
Matrimonial News, after eight years of trial,
finds fools enough in Chicago and elsewhere
to warrant its publishers, Messrs. C.. G. Hor-
ton & Co., to spread their sails for another
voyage, and they weigh anchor with words of
cheer betokening success.
The mission of the Matrimonial News is, if
we may believe its editor, to aid those
who pine in single blessedness and
mourn for mate to realize the fruition
of mstrimony by placing within the reach
of the sorrowing single facilities for choosing
from the beauty and worth of the entire
country-to look beyond domestic fields to
the gardens beyond the reach of vision and
select, by the aid of the News. the fairest sun
| flowers that bloom under other skies,
Then the News says that ito choose wisely,
| 1T is indispensable to choose widely, for as
| the ideal standard of merit and tempera-
'ment, as well as of personal appearance
means and social position, varies with al
most every individual, it is obvious that
the field for selection should extend beyond
the limited sphere of family acquaintance
and for the attainment of that object this
organ furnishes unsurpassed advantages.
The thousands of manageable persons
in this great country residing in locations
wide apart, and who, by reason of the con-
'yentiOnalities of society and other difficult
ties, are practically debarred from all social
and possible intercourse with each other,
will find in the Matrimonial News faithful
organ and ready exponent for the eonsum-
nation of their desires"
The News furnishes no statistics by which
we can judge of its success or measure its
usefulness, but we conclude, since it has
fourished eight years, that Cupid, if it
were practicable to interview the heart
piercing and frolicksome little god
could give revelations that would for
a while make unmarried people forget
returning boards and presidential muddles
and rush into print in search of happiness.
Poets would tune anew their harps and
maneuvering mammas and designing papas,
instead of European tours in hunt of counts,
titles and fortunes, would take fifty cent
risk in the News plan and trust to provi-
dence and a photograph for a prize in Hy-
mems grand lottery, where there
are no blanks and precious few
capital prizes We should hardly be able to
give our readers fair idea of the Chicago
matrimonial brokerage business without 60
ing somewhat more into detail Ladies OF
gentlemen can, for fifty cents, send out q
bait of fifty words for nibbling minnovs
whales and sharks, and that they may see
how the hooks are concealed. we give a spec
linen or two. A widow, registered Ne. 995
sets forth her claim as follows:
A WIDOW, age AZ, desires correspondence
IA with some gentleman Between the ages
! happy home. Best of references given and re-
quire@. Photo exchanged, If practicable Ed
flor has address.
Alta woman who advertises for beat
, we conclude means business, and il for the
investment Of fifty cents anything more re
spectacle than donkey is caught she ough
, to be satisfied with the investment. We
conclude that 994 widows have been pro
vided with companions and homes and tina
. $50 will at an early day be les
|, forlorn. But No. 961 comes forward
with mOce buoyancv. She eKters tn,
list of pilgrims to Hymen's altar il
the bloom of young womanhood, and chal
/, ienges attention in queenly sort of way
that shows confidence in the Chicago meth
cd of match making. She says:
, Now, eentlemen,i you want correspond
: ent with view to nsx trimony, here is wher,
you will find one; so 90 not look any farther
r but answer this at once. / am Fl years of age
and not very tall, blue eyes and dark hair,anC
what you would call rsther plump: In fact,
T think am the very lady you are locking fol
TO make you happy AS to good looks, car
| not say but IL you answer this, and like the
style OF your letter, IN send you nay photo
graph 1T you will send gours. Editor has ad
dress