The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-28
WILL You MARRY ME9
Bureau for the Encouragement of Matri-
mony ana Divorce Courts.

Bureau for the Encouragement Of Matri-
mony ana Divorce Courts.
Boston Globe
You wouldn't think, would you, that in a mar
rying nation Like this, where the marrying
epidemic is always prevalent, and takes in alike
the infant of twelve and the infant OF eighty
years, there would be any need of aids to matri-
monyl 1t was shrewd Yankee who guessed
that, marriage-bent as we are, there would De
money in any continuance that would slide the
matrimonially inclined into the goal of
their wishes at toboggan speed. So he
established matrimonial bureau. VI
course, he came to Boston to do it. Boston is
the home of extra women-that adjective is
kinder, and 'has a more tender meaning" as
Mr.. Weller would say, than su-per-hu- GUS
and therefore it was to be expected that
matrimonial bureau would be welcomed here
with open arms-and pocket-books. And 1t has
been. The matrimonial bureauist came to Bos-
ton; he opened the bureau and established pa
per; he made money If you were to go to No.
= Boylston street, you would see modest-iook-
ing doorplate, bearing common name In
answer to your ring tidy young mulatto
woman would open the door and show you up
stairs into the back of two large rooms
thrown into one by sliding doors. The front
one is a-parlor and the back one an Office and
reception room. They are furnished artistically
in neutral tints and look much more like the
pleasant parlors of a prosperous home than the
offices of a man of business. Ii you We're TO ask
Mr. -, who is the matrimonial bureau,
pleasant-looking mustached gentleman, dressed
in dark business suit, he would tell You
that the bureau and the paper have
been wonderfully successful This is the
only matrimonial bureau in the United States
There are two or three other papers which make
more or less of speciality of publishing matri-
neutrality-suspicious. advertisements. But this
is the only establishment which, in addition to
the paper, also takes upon itself the kindly office
of bringing into one anothers presence the
people who are yearning for their af1inlties;
o~,1,r "a no f7initU
are bureaus similar to this in Europe, London
possessing one, and Paris two. Mr.. - has
formed his very much after the plan of the mar
riage-sde.
Mr. - the other day, but the amount and
success of my business already prove that there
was a need of such an institution"
What is your method OF procedureF
SIN the first place, there is my paper, Weddlng
Bells. That is full all the time of advertise
ments for correspondents, either with or without
view to matrimony. I publish none that are
not evidently genuine and from reliable people.
The correspondence that begin in this way often
result in marriage, though / do not always
know of it, lose all sight of the parties, unless
thew wish me to know the result, after l have
been instrumental in bringing them into cor
respondence. Then / keep also a large number
of photographs of ladies and gentlemen who wish
to marry, with all the points of their personal
history which seeker after partner for life
would want to know. l receive no one into tins
bureau who doesn't mean business, and with
whose personal character l am not we'll salts
fed
.'Of course you are instrumental in working
out a good many romancesP
Eyes, do help on good many little romances
For instance, not long ago, gentleman from the
West came to me wanting wife. i showed MN
my photographs and he selected one, that OF
a young Boston lady of family, we'll known IN
society, whose acquaintance l have had for a
good many years. and known to be an admirable
H. Ia IN
her own right, and he is a well-to-do business
man. introduced Them took him to call on
her, and the other day they told me they were
engaged"
After how long an acquaintanceN
'"Ten days."
Good material there for suit in the divorce
court, isn't thereF
Mr. - laughed, but would admit nothing
that would bring discredit upon the workings of
his bureau.
Have You any idea of the number of people
you have. been instrumental in making happy,
for week at least, since You have been estab-a
lishedp a~a
Not the slightest. receive numbers of we'd
ding cards and boxes of wedding cake. If
were. to eat it all should expect to
have chronic dyspepsia in short
time. But many of those who marry
never take the trouble to let me know
about it. know, however, that on Thanksglv-
ing day there were nine marriages the fruits of
this bureau and Wedding Bells. And only last
week two couples were married in my parlor
whom had been instrumental in bringing to-
gether."
Does the greater part of your patronage come
from New Englandp
Naturally, good deal of it would come from
Boston and vicinity. But every State in the
Union is represented among my patrons, and the
paper has quite a large circulation through the
West | received subscription, the other day,
from India, from an officer in the army there"
From the appearance of the paper Mr.. -
is evidently making it a financial as we'll as
matrimonial success. The numbered adver-
tisements show an average of about one hun
dred for each issue. There is queer reading in
some of them. One young woman either has
been sadly mixed up in her English or she should
emigrate to Thibet, where custom smiled upon
polyandry. for she requests matrimonial cor
respondenee with all Intelligent, honor
| able strictly temperate American gentle
| men between the ages OF twenty-five to
| thirty fve." 1t is true she afterward
limits the number to those who reside in Boston
OF vicinity but if she IS a loyal Boston maiden,
of course she doesn't expect that to lessen the
number. Another lady makes the stipulation,
suggestive of cynicism on her part, that her cor
respondent must have white heart to give in
exchange for her own Two cowboys" in
Wyoming want somebody to write to them
lust for fun" A young woman drops into
poetry to make yearning request for "a
Boston BEAU" and announces that she wants
shis heart not his cash. The frequency
and earnestness with which these maidens and
widows specify the cardiac requisite, are equaled
only by the emphasis with which the advertis-
ers of the other sex demand. "good forms and
lively dispositions" One young woman wants
to correspond with "a moral young man, five
and a half feet in height, for amusement" A
young man in the West wants to correspond
with working girl OF course he means BUSH
ness. The most striking thing about the
advertisers is the innocence and ap-
parent candor with which they use
strings Of adjeetives to describe their physical
appearance, their mental capacities and their
moral natures, quite oblivious of the fact that
each one of them costs two cents each.
On the whole, the matri monial bureau looks
as if it would result in the financial benefit of
three partes-the manager of the bureau, the
ministers and magistrates who perform the eere-
MONIES and the lawyers of the divorce courts.
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