The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-12-07
CAUGHT ON.
An Advertising Medium Which
Resulted i'm Matrimuny.

Resulted i'm MatrimUny.
AS an advertising medium the Ba-
zoo has long been accorded the front
rank and whether a man was desrous
of selling anything from picked
elephants tongue to mOsquit trap,
it was only necessary TO let the fact
be known through its columns and
presto; 10, the thing was done. OF
late, however, new laurels have been
added to the BAZOO's crown, and j:
can now claim the homer of beiag Il
"match maker" Of course not match
maker Of the kind that is represented
by bit of phosphorus and pine
splinter, but "ma'ch maker" such as
Is dear 10 the heart of a woman and
which Is the only and approved meth
oil of founding family yet made pOpu-
lar. The tale within tale" may be
briefly related as follows: About a
year ago a fair Kentucky maiden who
painted, doubtless for some cOngenial
masculine bosom on which to lean,
and eho was unable to find it among
the blue jean wearers of her native
heath, resolved to advertise for the
article and without wasting time in
either the Louisville or st. Louis
papers, she came to the BAZOO and
in few days there appeared the fol-
lowing:
WANTED. A young lady of refinement
and good education desires to correspond
with widower OF meanes- object matrimo
nv. Address Ida May Jones Mt. Sterling
Ky.
1t will be seen that Miss Ida did
not Propose to waste her time Oil
correspondent for mere 'fun," or for
improvement, or anything of q similar
kind. she meant business, spelled with
a big fat "B." In fact
She had tired of living alone,
Had tired of a single life,
And she meant a soon as a man was
caught
To at once become his wife.
There was nothing wrong in this,
however, and the man who chose to
answer her advertisement could not
complain that she said one thing and
meant another. The advertisement
attracted the notice of a well-known
widower in this city, and although he
was not gushing young thing" vet
the fires of youth were not entirely
burned to ashes, and he resolved to
answer and if all went well to Trans
port the maiden of Kentucky to bloom
on Missouri soil. SO he sat down and
WI ote courteous missive, of which he
told of his loneliness and other things,
and sent it, with fear and trembling,
ON its mission. Miss Jones received
the missive and sac straightway an
swered in long explanatory and well
arranged answer. The BAZoo, how
ever, happened upon these
/. tiers, and hoping thus to smooth
the rough edges of the cOurtship, in
June last, published them, with sundry
information of It's own concerning the
widower. thrown in gratis. Whether
Miss Jones resented the carelessness
of her correspondent in thus allowing
the letters to see the light is not
known. but it is probable she did
girls as rule, blieving that men
should hold their letters as sacred as
the scripture and perhaps far more
sacred-at all even's nothing more
was heard of Miss Ida May until
recently when she sent the following
letter to this office,
Kansas City, No., Nov. 10Th, 'S6.
Ed. BazOo: You will please ReUeT in
sert my "al" in your paper again, as |
was married in Kentucky few days ago
and came to this city on bridal tour, but
leave tonight for our home In Colorado.
Thanking you for your kindness, and hop
ing that you will never insert my name
again, am Yours Respectfully,
Mrs. IDA MAY FILKERSoN.
Whether Mrs. Filkerson caught q
a husband by her advertisement, she
does not say, but it is naturally to be
that she did, and hence she
has the BazOo's congratulations and it
will certainly never insert her name
in the sad" column again, unless she
should become a widow, either by the
divorce court, or the good old way,
and this will bid her ia ! Ia ApropOs
it would be well to inquire how the
"widower" feels about losing his cor