The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-06-30
WHITE DRESSES FOR AFTERNOONS
THE MATRIMONIAL MARKET.
Generally DevOld of AnImatiOn-The Wa
tering Place Prospects.
New York SUM-

lENOW 4OEh quill
During the past winter business has been
very light. The movement still lags behind
the expectations Of holders. Few engage
ments are announced, and the trade generally
has been devoid Of animation.
Bachelors are operating in an extremely
cautious manner, and large stocks of mar
riageable young women have been carried
over from last autumn. The number of young
girls between the ages OF eighteen and TWEEN
ty-tive seems to be unwarrantably large, and
fathers afflicted with marriageable daughters
cannot exercise too much caution In making
preparation for the summer and fall trade.
ALI eyes now turn hopefully toward Sara
tOga and Newport. 1t Is, however, feared by
steady old dowagers, long in business, that
really desirable young men with incomes
ranging from $4,000 to $4,000 per annum
will this season be scarcer than ever before.
Our rich young men, as rule have pretty
much given up fashionable watering places.
They may, as birds Of passage, pass few
days at Newport, Sharon, Saratoga, New
London, or Long Branch; but the great
own or their friends yachts, pass the sum-
mer In out-of-the-way places along the coasts
or in the mountains. shoot drive, fish, and
'sit around" generally. In early fall they
series of visits at elegant country seats Water
ing place engagements are nowadays few and
far between. Newport, in the fall when cot
tage Life is especially enjoyable, is infinitely
more dangerous TO the bachelor than during
the height of the season. Mrs. Mann Hunter,
at this period of the year, invariably has some
three or four lovely young women staying at
her cottage, and to meet them she invites an
equal number Of eligible young men. Three
weeks of constant walks, talks drives and
waltzes with the same young woman, to say
nothing Of sailing excursions, picnics and
Sunday afternoons in the library, are quite
likely to do the business for any spirited
young fellow who has the slightest snap or
vim abou thin. Mrs. Mann Hunter one of the
shrewdest operators in the matrimonial mar
ket, has successfully established" her daugh-
tiers, but still continues in the business from
pure love Of matchmaking. We understand
she will have on hand during the coming sea-
son a constant succession OF what the French
call hGuteS TOuUeGutes, eliminating with the
choicest rosebuds in October.
In other days and happier times our fathers
and mothers fell in love and married without
inquiring too closely into fortunes, rent rolls
and the rest of it. They jumped into matri-
mOny as one takes a header in the rolling
surf. In nine cases out of ten it had the same
invigorating effect, bracing them up as they
went hand in hand through the trials and
troubles of this wicked world. Now, among
those classes claiming the monopoly Of the
greatest portion of the refinement and Gull
ture" which are supposed to be floating
around loose through the country, marriage
has come to be looked upon as regular bust
ness tranSaction-a matter Of money rather
than love. Cupid may assist at the nuptials
but money is essential.