Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-01-03

ENGAGED TO HIS OWN SISTER Recent,
an adventure with a serious moral came
to the knowledge of the Chicago Inter-
ocean. About three months ago young
man of excellent family, residing upon thu
west side, and employed as an accountant
in an insurance Office on LaSalle street
concluded he would have some fun will
the girls, and inserted the following
advertisement in one of the daily papers
OF that city
WANrED-A young man with goot
income wants to correspond with young
lady between the ages of Is and "a
object, social pleasure, and matrimony il
mutually agreeable, after acquaintance
Photographs exchanged. Address NJ, 95
-otlice.
He received several replies and ex
changed letters with three or four of the
writers for time, but finally dropped all
but one, whose letters were most intelligent
and attractive. With her the correspond.
ence was kept up for about two months
and photographs were exchanged. The
young man not wishing to disclose his
own identity without first having made
sure of his victim, sent her a photograph
of another person, which he procured at a
photograph gallery in another part of the
city, and it so happened that in sending
her picture she deceived him in the same
way. The correspondence ripened into an
engagement for marriage without either
person having seen the other, and the
young man became anxious to see the
features of his unknown. What his motives
l1n ind Lo
course he adopted, but it may be said that
at least they were neither pure nor honor
able, AS he has very wide circle of lady
acquaintances, and if he was desirous of
marriage he could have found among them
plenty of girls who would have recipro-
Gated his affection as he is attractive in
appearance, we'll educated and intelligent,
and his parents are very well to-do in the
world. They live in a handsome house,
and have all the uxuries that liberal
income can afford. AS far as social
pleasure was concerned he found plenty of
it in his own circle, and therefore the only
theory of his seeking the acquaintance OF
some unknown girl by concealing his
identity is that his object was other than
that advertised.
After great deal of urging on his part
and an equal amount of hesitation upon
hers, he finally secured the consent OF his
correspondent 10 meet face to face, and he
fixed for the scene of his meeting alta news
depot on West Madison street, which is
frequented by ladies; arranged with his
friend to visit him there at an early hour
in the evening, and promised to escort her
to the theatre; suggesting that after the
play was over, they might have a supper
and good time. He appeared at the
place of meeting promptly, and, after
waiting there few moments, was very
much astonished to see his own sister, a
girl of nineteen, walk in. bearing the mark
of identity which it was arranged that his
should carry. The surprise
and chagrin was mutual, and it is to be
hoped that young men with evil intentions
and reckless young girls will hereafter
avoid such adventures. Itappears
that the girl, having seen the advertise
ment, "for the fun of the thng' answered,
and was so much interested in the letters
of her correspondents that she was willing
to keep it up even at the sacrifice of her
self-respcct. 1t was a narrow escape for
both of them.