The Forrest City times., 1891-04-10
A PARADISE FOR GIRLS.
AFEW POINTERS BY A TRAVEL
 ING ROMANCER.
A Bracing Climate and an Embracing Popuiation-North Dakota Is the So-Callcd Promise Land
 A Play of Rivals.

Few people in the older settled parts of the country have little or no idea what scarce article young ladies are mp in the Dakotas. said travelling man in Chicago. as he watched the fair ones tripping along the street in front of his hotel office windows. Why, any one of these shop girls, working here for few dollars q week. can go up in- to that country and have the choice of all the men there. An attractive young lady in that part of the country is something to pause and gaze at. and she does not stay single long for the want of proposals. represent Chi cago hardware house and include North Dakota in my territory. and do you know that in only about one town out of every ten do catch a glimpse of a pretty young lady's face. All are school girls or married women. l don't imagine why the old maids do not go there and capture men. Hotelkeep- CTS up there tell me they have lots of trouble ia keeping supply of dining room girls. As fast as thoy import them from the east, the men out there tell them that they ought not to be working by the week, but should pre- side over homes of their own. That settles it. Away go the girls and a new lot has to be imported. l cannot vouch for the truthfulness of it, but it is said that one hotelkeeper displays the following notice in the dining room
 Guests are warned not to talk of love to the waiter girls. Any one convicted of making proposal of marriage to them will be promptly shot. Business is busi- ness.
 Many of the country hotels have quit trying 10 keep waiter girls, and employ crude men, with big. red. hairy hands, to paw over your proven der. 1 won't forget an incident that happened at the little town of D., on the Northern Pacific. 1 used to Sum- day there, and so did another young travelling man representing St. Paul house. A pretty young lady lived in the town. and we both had met her at n Saturday night dance some weeks before It happened that my friend md reached the town about the same hour one Sunday afternoon. We soon had on our best clothes. and. as 1t lacked only a little over m hour oi church time. 1 stole away from my friend to ask the fair one for her com pany for the evening. 1 had been in her presence but few moments when there was rap at tho door and she admitted my friend.
 The glances we bestowed upon each other meant moro to us than they did to her. Each ono of us plainly read the others thoughts. There was to be no surrender on either side. Oui forces were evenly matched and strata. gerl would have to be resorted to il either achieved the victory. After the time usually allotted to making d social call had elapsed saw that the situa- ton was growing embarrassing and sug. gested to my friend that We should be going. By the time we get back to the hotel it was getting dark and, feignine weariness, left my friend sitting out side and went in us though on the way to my room. But did not go to my room. l stole out of the rear door and in a circuitous roundabout way hastened toward the young lady's home, hoping to reach there before she had gone tc church and yet carry out my original plan. Just at the gate 1 met man face to face. It was my friend. We each spoke some low, indistinct words and then laughed at the situation then proposed that we flip coin to sec who should have the field He won. Just then the door opened and the young lady accompanied by big church. We gave up the notion oI going to church and went straight to bed