Morris tribune., 1886-12-29
A MARRIAGE MART:
Washington Jolly COurting Place, and, There
fore, Popular With the Ladies.

"HsHIhBlOn JhIly NOuEiihS 1 ihOos ""N' INV '"
fore, Popular With the Ladies.
A correspondent OF the Indianapolis
Journal writes to that paper as fol
lows:
Washington is going to be chock
full ofmarriageable ladies this winter" "
said a pretty little Southern widow
to your correspondent last evening.
"Do you know" she continued, show
ing, u keen interest in the subject,
that this is the greatest matchmak-
ing city in the universe? No? Well,
it's true. More ladies come here to
get married than to half dozen other
cities of the same population. 1t is
because of the pleasant society, the
beauty OF the surroundings and the
gallantry of the city. All the ladies
want to live here; and don't blame
them. have been coming here for
three winters-but not for the purpos?
| mention"
"Do you think this adeslrable place
TO hunt husbands?"
II can not say So" and fit OF
disap pointment cleaned in her
blessed big black eyes, and the flush
mounted her velvety cheeks. "But
its good place for men to seek
wives. ! know you must have seen
that much. The ladies are handsome
and accomplished, as a rule, and
hundreds of them have wealth and
social standing AS said, they are
smitten- with the glare of the capital
and the abandon of the people. II
there is anything lady likes it is ease
and elegance, plenty time and an
abundance of gayety. These, with q
gallant and bright husb-gentleman
make it so nice. | have attended re-
ceptions, dinners, and all manner of en-
tertainments, social, in Paris and Lon
don-I was educated at the capital OF
France-but there is nothing so last
ingly pleasant as you have in Wash
ington. Think of Americans, with all
that is desirable in Europe, right at
your fingers ends! AS place of resi-
dence Paris mas obliterated it's attrac-
tions, or bleared them, by nationality"
"Are there more marriages here than
in other cities, proportlonate to the
population"
II connot say that there are, but
you must remember the matches made
here are, eliminated elsewhere. The
ladies come here, meet residents or
visitors, court, make engagements, then
go home and get married. Oh! it's
jolly, counting in Westinghouse diff
ferent from other places. There is ro-
nance in everything. A woman that
couldn't plot an elopement here, under
the glitter of the White House,
the roar and hustle of the
cabinet and to the music OF
the dinipg-room and ball, isn't worth
having. But, seriously, never heard
of so many ladies who want to get
married as are here now. know them,
and see them everywhere l go-wld-
ows, orphans, daughters of magnates,
statesman and potentates. If were
a young man I'd be bigamist, sure.
Lots of men come here to look for
wives, but there is not one of them to
ten ladies who are looking for hus-
bands. The hotels, aristocratic board
ing-houses, the flats and the private
residences are full of them. Scores are
in every square. My! water, water
everywhere, and none to drink And
the discouraging feature is, theseladies
are becoming more plentiful every
year. Great families of them come in
a bunch, put up at the fashionable
places or rent houses, and stay the
seasons out. An acceptable man could
marry twice a week. From the inflow
of familiar faces, it looks like the mar
ket would be better supplied this short
season than ever before"