Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-10-18

II don't mind telling you fellows, If THE
STAR man will keep mum, that my attempts at
matrimony thus far have been most meIan-
choly failures. How is it to be expected that a
clerk IN the foreign Office at 81 200 year. born
to situation in life that obliges him to keep
up appearances, shall indulge in such a luxury
as wife and possible, if not probable, Off
spring? AS Q bachelor l Can swell around.
wear good clothes and be rollicking ram in a
mild and not too expensive sort of fashion.
FIVE hundred dollars supplies my board and
lodging, $500 more enables me to be attired
like the lilies OF the field, my club costs only
$40 outside of what / choose to spend in it, and
l am not expected, as would be the case in any
other city, to return any equivalent for the hos
pltalltles extended to me i'll society.
READY FOR A RICH GIRL.
81 have never felt any prejudice against mar
rying an heiress On the contrary, have been
DESTROYS Of committing myself to such a VEN
ture. No one can justly say that consider
alton OF mere money in such a way has fright
ened me from the undertaking OF matrimonial
obligations. Here in Washington we find a
situation OF affairs in this regard that is
peculiarly happy. On the one hand there are
ever SO many very rich girls, while on the
other there are hardly any young men who are
not poor. A combination of the advantages
and disadvantages ought to DO made. Let the
poor young men marry the rich girls and there
would be happiness all around. Unfortunately.
for some reason which have never been able
to fathom. the rich girls do not seem willing to
endow the poor young men, however attractive
the latter may be, with their wealth. Male per-
sons from other cities, usually with more or
less money Of their own, come here and scoop
in the gilded damsels and We are left
1.-The object of my first choice was only DOS
sessed of paltry 500, 900. but she had that in
her own right and thought it would do. With
500. 600 could affoid to retire from the pub
lie service and do nothing, which was at that
time my ambition. l did not love the girl
that is to say. / was not in love with her-but il
occurred to me that love was an ephemeral pas
sion. When love, even supposing that felt it,
had vanished the 800, 900 would still be a solid
foundation for domestic content. At the same
time You must distinctly understand that did
not propose to go upon false pretenses in the
matter. The occasion that 1 chose for my pro-
posal OF marriage was game of billiards be-
tween myself and my inamorata. told her
frankly that was not in love with her; that had
$1,000 year in my own right subject to the
discretion Of the Department OF State, and that
p! understood she had Sl00, 900. subject to no
discretion, unless she had some OF her own. NV
notion. as l expressed it. was that, inasmuch az
she had money and ! needed it. We should eff
feet combination. To conclude, asked her
to be my wife. As had anticipated, she re-
fused, though amiably.
-, -. trust she said, that this will make NO
oinerence between u.s. Adolphus?
NOT at all, Marie, l replied. It's your
shot; I'm eight points behind
WITH ONLY TEN MILLIoNa
my own experience points to the conclusion
that heiresses are hard to catch. shat. never
get over my adventure with young woman
who came to Washington two years ago with
ten millions in her own right, without mention
ing prospective reversion of twenty millions
from her father, she being an only child.
Even supposIng that she never got anything
from her father, S10,000.000 was sum suffi-
ciently large to be useful to any el, 200 servant
OF the government My former plans have
been DO notably unsuccessful that made mp my
mind TO tackle this heiress In style altogether
opposite. Although it 10 not generally recog-
nized that such Is the case, there are two ways
OF being gentleman. St Paul was gentle
man and 30 was, and very possibly 10, the devil
Wherever you ind the devil figuring in litera-
ture or tradition he 10 always gentleman. he
never fails TO keep his word. is strictly a man
OF honor and h almost invariably imposed