St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-21
DO YOU WANT TO MARRY?
A Professor" Who Assists People in
Choosing Life Partner.
Character and D1spos1tion--L1tera
Gentuses Bad Husbands.

Gentuses Bad Husbands.
Highly Educated Girls the SIowest tc
Wed--The Wealthy Glasses.
On the door of an unpretentious house
OH prominent thorOughfare on the West
side is plain sign, bearing the words
Matrimonial information which attracts
much comment, says Chicago paper. II
is new sign and the occupants are new in
that neighborhood yet they seem to have a
great many visitors. Like the outside of
the building, the rooms and furniture are
not striking for their beauty, but they can
be said to be neat and to look comfortable
There is;nO pretension to an Office The
front room, or parlor, is used for the recep-
ton of visitors, and small adjoining room
provided with three chairs and small Ia
BILE, is where any private conversation is
carried on. 1t was to find out just what
sort OF information was meant by the sign
that a reporter visited the house yesterday.
He was thy young lady of pleasant
mien, dark, penetrating eyes, and an easy
cOnversationalist.
''You wish to see the professor" she in
oOiIoSdGCu. I1C 10 CllSo5Cu JuoU INV, UuG
will be at leisure in moment" She then
escorted the visitor to seat.
The professor was not at leisure in a
moment. In fact it was little over ten
minutes when small, dark-cOmplexioned
man, with an intelligent face, emerged
from the small room designated above, in
companied her to the door, where he babe
hor olio1, md oI 70 hic of
visitor.
''You wish tQsee me? Just step in here,
please" he said, and the reporter was taken
to the little man, that parsonage produced
from his pocket card ON which was
printed in small, neat letters Rudolph
Lemier," and below the number of the
house and street.
II am from New York" he said, 'swhere
Twas for many years assistant in a similar
business. 1t is new, believe, in Chicago.
My work consists in making good matches
eral ways-by phrenology, physiognomy,
character reading. I also have assistants
women, watch them, associate with them,
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to the person desiring it."
''Given, did you say?"
Eyes" with a shrug, ''for stipulated
price"
''And does it pay?"
toners from the fashionable walks of life,
and they pay literally"
'.Are gentlemen or ladies your most fire.
quent customers?"
''Oh, the ladies, to be sure. Of course,
matrimonial matches. We only give adj
to us, and this we attempt to do from a
scientific standpoint"
your investigation must have been the
means of teaching you great deal about
marriage?"
eyes, answered MI. Lemier as he rolled
cigarette, land I can tell you something
that may be surprising to you. It is this:
That of all the young ladies the highly ed
ucated ones are the slOWest in getting huS-
bands. 1t really seems as though the man
of the period is shy of the educated girl of
the period. know from actual observation
that out Of nearly six hundred graduates of
very prominent female college less than
two hundred of them have married since
that climax of their career. 70 be sure,
many of them are still young, but the ma
jOrity graduated years ago, and are we'll
established old maids Now, it can't be
said they are unattractive, for the average
educated girl is attractive; but, even if she
was plain, it would seem incomprehensible
that girl, be she ever so plain, had never
had a proposal, and experience has taught
me that every girl can get married if she
will. Then comes the question: Does in
tellectual training make young ladies fin
ical, difficult to please, unwilling to &C
cept the hands of honest young men whose
education is not so complete? 1t should
not have this tendency, for in most of the
happy marriages in the land the wife has
the greater portion of the education. AS
our industrial machinery is at present man
aged the girls have the best chances fol
study, and the same holds good when they
are wives. The finest scholars are men,
but by far the greatest number of educated
persons in Americat o-day are women.
s'Now the point is right here: If young
girl who has just graduated waits to marry
man whose education is equal to hers she
is very likely to die an old maid. Another
thing which is true is that the best husbands
in the country are those who know no Ian
guage but the English, and never perhaps
thought of using were as subjunctive mood
of to be- The most amiable, kind, ten
der, thoughtful. shrewd and prosperous
husbands to-day belong to this class. Many
a man has been scOrned by these educated
women because he persisted in saying I
seen him, OF used tWo'e's' in writing sep
arate, but whose heart was in the right
place; whose mind was strong and active
in commercial pursuits; whose body was
vigorous, and whose energy was untiring.
The educated husband is not so practical,
is provokingly nice, is distracted, and for
gets those little tender actions toward the
wife which true, honest, everyday heart
is sure to cultivate.
sit is an old saying that men of genius
or of great literary talent seldom make
even passable husbands. They are more
deeply in Interested in counting ideas and
plots than in caring for their wives. Do
mesticity is an unknown quantity to them.
Shakespeare cared more for the theater and
his club than he did for his wife, and his
death finds him leaving her only a bedstead.
Milton was curse to any woman, his
domineering ways being unbearable.
Dickens was poor husband, as were also
Bulwer, Byron, Greeley, and scores OF
others whose names are familiar. If a
woman desires happy home she will not
find it among men like these-rather in the
cottage of the man whose work is done
away from home and who can give his
evenings to her and his children. A good
character goes farther than good education,
and good nature is more desirable than cor
rect spelling"
''Do you shadow persons to learn their
vices?"
Every seldom. If it is a good customer
who is compelled to depend on us we do it
to accommodate, but it is unpleasant, to say
the least, and often wish l could avoid
that part of it."
s'Of what, then, does the major part of
your information conSiSt?''