St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-28
A HAWKEYE FINDS A BRIDE
An Iowa Man Quickly Finds Wife in
Chicago.
AN UNRoMANTIC AFFAIR.
1t Was a Genuine Case Of Reeipro-
Cal Love at the FIRST
Meeting.

last few days in Chicago, says the Chi
cago Times. Tuesday last he was mar
RED to Mrs. Norah Gille, of No. 10
Ihirty-SiXth place, between Stanton and
| FlncenneS avenues. Yesterday Alr.
and Mrs. DoulOn left for their home in
Belle Plaine. The peculiar feature of
the case is that Mr.. Doulon never saw
Mrs. Gille until Monday afternoon. 1t
was genuine case of love at first sight.
1t was case of matrimony at first sight
| also.
My angel" said James the moment
he first set eyes on Norah.
my hearts own" murmured Norah.
Come to these arms, darling." said
James.
Norah came. She pillowed her head
on his breast pocket. She looked shyly
up into his eyes.
.'Dost love me, Jamsie?" she asked.
with all my heart. If you love me
| as love you, no meat-aX can cut our
love in two Where is the nearest mar
| riage ShOp?"
Right around the corner. We can
buy license and get married in the
| same Office
| Mrs. Gille had been there before.
DoulOn is in the boot and shoe bust
ness at Belle PLANE. He is well off: he
owns house or two, and is what people
call thriving man. He is good bust
ness man. No Chicago drummer can
pull the wool over his eyes by making
him buy what he doesn't want. When
he wants thing he orders it. When he
doesn't want it he lets it alone. Two
OF three weeks ago
HE DECIDED TO GET A WIFE.
There was nothing in the matrimonial
market at Belle PLANE to exactly suit
| him. Those who would have him he
| didn't want: those whom he wanted he
| couldn't have. Belle Plaine is a rather
| dead sort of place anyhow, especially
| since that big well that burst out in the
middle OF the street stopped gushing.
That big well threatened first to drown
The town out and afterWard to make
| everybody rich-it was supposed to
have wonderful medicinal properties
| but the town wasn't drowned and the
people are not bit richer. Nobody
| goes there to be cured. 1t was dull for
| DOulon and he decided to get married.
de spoke to a Chicago drummer
| about it.
II want to get good wife," he said.
Not young nor Skittish, but a steady,
brOad-soled. comfortable, common-sense
woman, like the sort of shoes l buy"
That's easy" said the drummer.
There's place in Chicago where you
| can order a wife as easily as a case of
overshoes. Just tell what you want and
| incloSe 81"
So Doulon wrote to the address given
"a matrimonial bureau on Wabash
avenue run by man named Scott, who
used to be detective.
Il am fifty years old and widOwer."
wrote DOulOn. Il am in the boot and
shoe business, and own some property.
want respectable single woman or
widow who is as we'll off as myself. [
am not particular about good looks, but
she must be good cook and good house
! keeper. If you get me the right sort |
will marry her right away. If it is not
convenient to send samples l will 90 to
Chicago and look at the goods. Enclosed
find So
Mr.. Scott promptly replied that he had
the very thing DOulOn was looking for.
Her name is Mrs. Gilie," wrote
Scott. ''Her address is No. 10 Thirty
sixth place, Chicago. She OWNS the
house she lives in and house next
door, and she has bank account. She
is widow, and forty years old-fine,
fair, and forty, as the saying is. She is
ALL WOOL AND A YARD WIDE,
and warranted to make any man happy.
Her looks you can Judge of from her
photograph, which she will send you.
| don't know that you will please her.
but am sure she will please you. She
will write to you by this mail. If you
win her you are lucky man."
So Mrs. Gille wrote to Doulon. The
contents of that letter are sacred. Who
would be so mean as to publish letter,
when that letter was the first cOnfiden-
tal breathing of newly awakened love?
Mrs. Gille wrote, incloSing photo
graph. She requested DoulOn to send
his'n. Doulon rugged up in his best and
got tintype taken. He sent this to
Mrs. Gille. and with a business-like
love-letter. He said he lived in a seven
room house and never saw photograph
that pleased him better than did ners.
He remarked that he did good custom
shoe trade, and that it would be the aim
of his life to make her happy. He noted
that he had most of his heavy winter
stock disposed of. and that he loved her
already with a sizzling, red-hot affec-
ton. He thought the prospects for
spring trade were exceptionally good,
and that if she would marry him she
would never regret ii. He had been
married before, he said: so had she.
Good calt-skin shoes were more easy
and comfortable and better every way
same with men and women. And then
he broke out in poetry:
know in years I'm growing old.
But heart like mine it ne'er grows cold.
TO share our joys we need friend,
To soothe our cares till life shall end.
And If you take us as your man
l will make you as happy as / can.
But if TO take me you refuse
I'll have no more Joy in boots and shoes.
So write TO me without delay;
And I'll make you as happy as the day,
If you come to Belle Plaine, Ioway.
No woman could resist such an APP
peal. Mrs. Gille was a woman. She
wrote back telling DOulOn TO come to
Chicago. That was the whole cores
pOndence.
Doulon got here Monday last. Mon
day afternoon he called on Mrs. Gille
at her home on Thirty-SiXth place.
The substance of the interview is al
ready given. 1t was case of love at
first sight. He spent the afternoon
with her. He liked her. He liked the
two houses, He adored the bank ac-
count. He staid to supper. 1t was an
excellent supper. He spent the even
ing with her. He poured out the hot
shot of his affection with all the
ARDoR OF AN OLD CAMPAIGNER.
Mrs. Gille reciprocated. She was a
woman: therefore to be wooed. She was
a woman: therefore to be won. James
wooed her and he won her the same
evening.
Tuesday morning a happy couple
called OH Morris SalmOnson, the genial
and happy dispenser of marriage licenses
for the county of Cook.
''IIow much does marriage license
cost?' asked DoulOn, for, as the clever
reader has doubtless guessed, il was
none other than he.
1.-TWO dollars,' said Salmonson.
SIS that the lowest for ready eash?"
"That's the lowest"
'Let Ter CO." said Doalon, which
mnant thnt nnulnn would Haln Ii dnnr