Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-12
EASY MATRIMo oNY.
A Novel Method ofAvoiding Court
ship.
THE BUREAU SYSTEM OF MARRIAGE.
Complete Arrangements Established Where
Entire Strangers are MagicaIIy
Drawn Into the hatri-
monial Net.
New YORK, September Il


This was the seductive announcement on
a card which was thrust into reporters
hand yesterday, and that instantly turned
his lingering steps into a two-forty gait
for the region Of Seventeenth street and
Eighth avenue, where the bells were rep
resented as Ginning sweet tunes of hyme-
nial Joy. tall, gray-bearded man arose
as the reporter entered the little office,
where the editress of Wedding Bells" sat
drinking beer out OF tin pail. She arose,
buxom little woman with liberal smile
and courteously conducted the reporter to
the rear of the room. She was the editress
of the Wedding Bells, she said, and had
started il as an experimental organ for
legitimate love-" She was sure it was
needed, an 4 did not see why it should not
succeed here. In France, Italy, Germany
and all over EuroTe the newspapers were
commonly used as a means Of bringing low
ers together.
Mrs. I.eOnora, the romantic name she
gave, spoke with strorg foreign accent.
The wedding Bells" when produced,
proved 10 be a Sxl0 sheet OF roseate hue,
with a wood.cut representing dudes
wedding at the head and handful OF mot
toes Of the lOve.siCk. Kindness in wo-
man. not her beauteous look, shall win my
IONe, was tne way tue ntCheu PI'h'et
quoted Shakespeare. notice an-
nounCed that sure corn and wart cure.
and knocking bird decoy whistles" were
to be bad at the bureau, besides the
more poetic matrimonial ware. This was
arranged in an attractive display under the
heads OF Ladies" and "Gehtlemen." For
names, numbers were used, that in the la
dies column had reached the figure OF Ola
and in the gentlemen's column had passed
700. The charms Of handsome blondes
were literally displayed in the one and
the merits OF ambitious men in the o.Eer
The yearnipg OF the blondes, young and
old, was fer position; that Of the masculine
advertisers for money and money only.
"A young gentleman, age thirty, desires
for wife a lady OF good position. No OBJ
lection TO an independent widow Of $3.50
cash address Geo. Partnership" wrote one
cheeky client. Mrs. Leonoras eye tolloyed
the glance of her visitor:
He Got n Rich widow,
"He got a rich young widow, sure
enough" she laughed, land they are going
to get married Mr.. George is q reporter
for big, nice paper in the city. oh, yes!
They are genuine, all Of the notices you
see there. | know the people myself.
They come and give me the advertisements,
five cents a word, and advise them and
take their letters. II the lady is timid let
her look out of this window when the gem
tleman comes in, so that she sees him with
out herself being seen. Many letters!
Yes, a great many come 10 most OF the ad-
yertisers. There was one poor young lady,
the one that advertises there that a young
COlored lady, refined, desires to marry
white young msn; is rich and admires the
European faces, she received only three
letters, insulting at that. IL was TOO bad.
She almost tainted from vexation. Why
size is nearly as white as you or !, and has
half million dollars. But then the writers
probably thought she was black. and that
is about the only thing they can't swallow
with the money.
The little woman was getting into talk
alive mood. She regretted that she could
not offer the reporter glass OF beer, the
pail being empty. She naturally had
fellow feeling for the craft. The idea Of
the paper had occurred TO her, she said, in
her capacity as a sort Of mother confess0r
for many young ladies when size taught
foreign languages. She had travelled all
over the world and found Just as many
men yearninS for mates. and 90 she deter
mined 10 give them all chance. Already
she could look back on long row OF happy
unions that had grown out OF her eiiDrtS,
with mary more in prospect. Occasionally
She made q big fee when her medi alton led
to an esprci i result. Once she received a |
thousand dollars. It was then she married |
a rich New Iork girl TO title, bat poor
Italian prince The gil wanted to marry |
a title and she did, Mrs LaOnora serving as
nliddeman. Her husband was once cap. |
TIN in the Itslisn army, and she had in
huential friends in Rome.
While the reporter was watching the
xomsn with a species Of ave she put her
finger on advertisement No. $50 IN the |
Wedding Bells" which set forth that an |
Italian gentleman OF old title, large estate |
and a seat in Parliament, desired to marry |
wealthy lady lot over twenty-sight |
years cd.
4 Titled Husband.
There, she said, in confidential whis
per, "he is another | know him. He is |
nee, but as poor as a church mouse, but |
a title and a castle are good bait. | have,
S. Mt Lin letters from one cCrre5pondentiD in |
Saratoga, one at Long Branch aid Two al
Newport.
Tine women want handsome men, men |
they can trust, out above all handsome. |
even il old. Some OF them want husbands |
to match pictures they have drca mt about
They want position, too. Mot OF them |
will take nothing less than dry goods |
clerk For mechanics there Is no call, and |
! do1't take their ads. As for men, all |
they are after is money. IL woman has |
tDat sDe may De Ugly Iicy
take her. Semi occasionally one really |
wants mate, but even then he never con |
siderS few thousand dollars amiss. And |
likely enough, while he is fishing for |
thousands he will try 10 do me out OF
dollar for bis advertisement by promising |
10 psy next week.
''Roth old and young advertise. Here Is
q maiden lady OF forty; but she don't take
we'll. She is particular, too. So is this
M EsS nnlitiC1an Wh0,a |
name you would know-but ] never tell |
names.nothing less than Sc, 900 would do
for him. Twenty thousand would be as |
nothing This lady OF twenty nine, with |
$25. go, is Just as bad. Her husband must |
be a German and be in the wholesale drug |
business. Well she will hare TO wait
A Widow WITH FaBds.
This widow lrdy, With $4,000 cash and
land. got a husband, aud q good one. and |
so did the young lady here, No. COS. with |
Sc coo and her seventeen years. IL you had
watched the papers yon would have seen q
few weeks ego the advertisement Of the
Wedding at Saratoga OF Brook J ] lady and |
this man OF talent, weighing l16 pounds,
No G63 The Wedding Bells rang Ia tnat
union.
sometimes l let them meet here 10 see |
bow they suit each other. / merely take /
their letters. The men come IN the even
ing. the women In the morning. ! think
there is less danger Of unhappy marriages
on this plan, for you see i exercise 0 eort
Of supervision and know something ot both
TsrtIFs" ~
door. pointing to two large baskets psrtly
filed with "Wedding Bells" in wrappers |
n AT were 10 be mailed 20 her ten cent |
GLnd vet she taid with q Sigh. 1T /