Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-07-16
CHOOSING A LIFE PARrNER.
Highly Educated Girls the siowest 10
Wed-Literary Geniuses Not Good
Husbands.
Chicago News.

I ing the words Matrimonial Inf0rma,
/ ton, which attracts much comment.
1t is new sign and the occupants are
new in that neighborhoed, yet they
seem to have a great many visitors.
Like the outside of the building, the
rooms and furniture are not striking
fcr their beauty, but they can be said
to be neat and to look comfortable.
There is no pretention 10 an Office.
The front room or parlor Is used for
the reception of visitors. ana small
adjoining room, provided with three
chairs aud a small table, is where any
private conversation is carried on. 1t
was to ind out just what sort of in
formation vas meant by the sign that
a Daily News reporter visited the
house. He was met by young lady
pleasant mien dark, penetrating
eyes, and q very easy conversational
3St.
"You wish TO see the professor
she Intercepted. HE is engaged Just
now, but will be at leisure in mo
ment." She then escorted the visitor
TO a seat.
"The professor was not at leisure
in a moment. In fact, it was little
over ten minutes when a small, dark
complexioned man, with an inlelh-
gent face, emerged from the small
room designated above, in company
with a well-dressed lady. He accom-
panied her to the door, where he babe
her adieu, and the returned TO his lat
er visitor.
You wish to see mel Just step in
here please" he said, and the reporter
was taken into the littlc room. FIX
| planning his mission to the little man,
that parsonage prodacad flom his
pocket a card on which was printed, m
small, neat letter, Rudolph Lemier, -
and below the number Of the hou,
and street
II am from New York, he said,
"whers | was for many years assis-
taut IN a similar business. 1t is now,
believe, in Chicago. Ny work con.
sists in making good matches in the
matrimonial line. do this in several
ways-by phrenelogy, physiognomy,
and a knowledge of the other sciences
Of character reading. / also have as
sistants who study the habits of young
men aud women, watch them, associ-
ate with them aud read them. This
information is given to the person de-
string it.
"GiveH, did you sayln
Yes, " with shrug, "for a stipu
lated price"
and does it payp
'It has so far We generally have
customers from the fashionable walks
of life, and they pay literally"
"Are gentlemen or ladies your
most frequent customers2'
"Oh. the ladies, to be sure. OF
course, you understand, we do not
pretend TO make matrimonial matches.
We only give advice on marriage
with persons pointed out to us, and
this we attempt to do from scientific
standpoint"
'Y0ur Investigations mast have
been the means of teaching you q
great deal about marriaget'
Eyes, answered Mr.. Lemier, SIS he
rolled cigarette, land | can tell you
something that may be surprising 10
you. 1t is this That of all the young
ladies', the highly educated ones, are
the slowest in getting husbands 1t
really seems as though the man of the
period is shy of the educated girl of the
period. l know, from actual obser>
walton, that out of nearly GOO gradu-
ates of a very prominent female col
lege less than 200 have married since
that climax Of their career. To be
sure, many Of them are still young,
but the msj9rity graduated years ago,
and are now well established old
maids. Now, it can't be said they are
unattractive, for tho average educated
girl is attractive; but, even if she was
plain it would seem iucomprehensibl
that girl, be she ever SO plain, had
never mad a proposal, and experience
has taught me that every girl can get
married if she will. Then comes the
question Does intellectual training
make young ladies tinical, difficult to
please, unwilling to accept the lands
of honest young men whose education
| is not so complete II should not have
this tendency, for in most of the hapr
by marriages in the land the wife has
the greater portion Of the education.
As our industrial machinery is at
present managed, the girls have the
best chances for study, and the same
holds good when they are wives The
finest scholars in our land are men,
/ but by far the greater number Of ed
ucated persons in America to day are
women.
snow, tho point is right here If
young girl who has just graduated
waits to marry a man whose educa
ton is equal 20 hers she is very likely
to die an old maid Another thing
which is true that the best husbands
in the country are those who know no
language but the English, and never
perhaps thought Of using were as
subjective mood Of TO be- The most
amiable. kind, tender, 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
4 seen kln, or used three e's' in writ.
ing separate, but whose heart was in
the right place; whose mind was
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