Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-03-01
MatrimOny Made Easy.

ono ina'oens anu signing swan
no longer advertise in the papers for
husbands or wives. A single wo.
man, employed in sewing-cotton
factory in Connecticut, surfeited with
maiden meditation fancy free, and
not able to secure O desirable bean
who meant business in her own town.
wrote upon n SPOOL that she was
about to swati,e in thread: Want
ed--A husband. Mary Jones. Tread
vile, Connecticut. That identical
spool of cotton found its consumer
in a bachelor--a thrifty business
man of Sheboygan, while engaged
one night in sewing buttons on his
garments, in his desolate bachelor
apartments. He emptied the spool,
and his Hungry eyes fell upon the
request of the husband wanting
Mary Jones, She wanted husband:
he needed a wife. He wrote to the
proprietors of the Threadville facto-
ry to inquire of the character and
disposition of Miss Jones. Satisfac-
tory answers were returned. Next
he opened correspondence with
Miss Jones, inclosing his credentials
as q respectable citizen of Sheboy-
gan. Photographs followed. Love
without sight succeeded. The bach .
elor of Sheboygan visited the spin
ter of Threadville. They were Joy
lily married, and lived so happily
ever after that they have not up to
this writing commenced proceedings
for divorce.
Another case is that of produce
merchant of Waverly, Iowa. He
was so immersed in business that he
could not find time to 60 a-wooing;
SO one night, while engaged in pack
ing eggs for the Eastern market, he,
oppressed with his sense of loneli-
ness, in sheer desperation, seized
upon lead-pencil, wrote his name
and address on an egg, with the re-
quest that if it fell into the hands of
an unwedded female she would ad-
wise him of the fact just to cheer his
singled blessed loneliness for charity's
sake. That egg did come into the
possession of maiden in New York.
who complied with the request in
pencil Waverly responded in ink.
Letter followed letter. Then were
written inter changes of constancy,
and photographs. Waverly's dealer
in eggs and poultry found time to Sc
to New York, claim his bride, AM
carry her to his home in Iowa. Let
us hope that the combined happi-
ness of this strange-brought-together
couple will be stronger than ten
thousand egg-shells consolidation
into one.
There are myriads of manageable
men and women in the land signing
for partners for life, and finding
them not in tho narrow circles of
their acquaintance. Too wise and
reserved to have recourse to matri-
monial advertisements and marriage
brokers, they have now placed before
them n boundless vista of empty
spools for cotton and eggs in the
shell. To intrust their hearts dear
est longings to either is good deal
easier than nanGuvering for an in
PRODUCTION in their native town or
city neighborhood. Besides, there
is nothing risked - not even the
chance of being mortified by con-
temptuous silence. If nothing comes
of a dozen spools of cotton or q
gross of eggs, there is no harm done
no expense incurred. If success
full, how romantic!-two hearts to be
made to beat as one through the in
strumentality or spool of cotton!-
two souls to have but single ,
thought for all time on account of J
an egg! Why, Ingomar and Par
thenia, Romeo and Juliet, and Sum-
mer counting on front.door steps,
are nothing to the sweet communion
of kindred spirit invoked by eggs
and spools of cotton.
WE would not advise anybody to
in the brick-making enter
prise on borrowed capital, but we
ara not alOna in tho oY,iniop fbot