The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-24


looking for. The cost is trifle, only (here
she inserts 81 or SO, as the case may be)
Shall l send you one, dear!" OF course,
'dear' says yes. The commission business
is carried to greater extremes in Nav York
than in any city in the world. The hotel
clerk who recommends you to halter
steps around and collects his little percent
age. Every customer sent to miliner, a
hair-dresser, a haberdasher, bric-a-brac
dealer or milliner is worth so much to
somebody, and the man who is instrumental
IN placing An advertisement in news paper
invariably presents his picayune claim
There is not a business in the city, how
ever inconseQuential, which does not have
its parasite.
wANTED-A RICH WIDOW.
It will. perhaps, be remembered that in
this letter, some time ago, devoted q bit
of space to the wealthy widows of the
country. These facts were gathered at
considerable pains, and 1 am pleased to
know that they have not been wholly
wasted. l received, the other day, letter
from Mr.. j. H. French, a partner in firm
at North Topeka, Kan, dealing in hard
ware, tinware, stoves, wagons, agricultural
implements, etc. In this letter MIR. French
expresses desire to secure as wife and
assuming that l was an expert in these
matters. sent me his rather quaint appeal.
AS his letter may interest some of the rich
widows of the country, l feel justified in
giving it to the public. My personal knowl-
edge of rich widows is somewhat limited.
Here is Mr.. French's letter:
DEAR sIR:-I see an article written by you
about rich widows 1 am widower of forty
six years, and want number one widow about
thirty or thirty-five years old for wife. l am
home man, and like to make home pleasant for
a wife. am no pauper. Have two children
boy Of eight years and girl of fourteen years.
1 want wife and mother for them. One who
can play and sing and knows how to take care
OF q home, and yet she must be worth some
money, say not less than 100000 in actual
money. l can and will give her a nice happy
home and a Christian home. can give as good
reference as there is in this state. have held
place of representative, and stand on an equal
with the best OF men here. also IN my business.
Find me- please, such woman as have asked
for, and put me on the right way to get ac-
quainted, and will be under great obligation TO
! you. mean business in a businessltke man
ner 1 would assist you under like circum-
| stances Please find stamp and envelope, and
please write me, as l want happy home once
j. Il. FRENCH.
| trust that this will fall under the eye of
some kind widow, possessed of at least
100000, who is searching for a happy,
Christian home in the western section of
| the Union. When aman says he will assist
me under like circumstances he can depend
upon my doing my very best for him. If
Mr.. French does not secure q helpmeet
through this broadcast advertisement it
will probably be because the demand for
100000 widows is somewhat in excess of
the supply.
THE OHIO MAN TO THE FRONT.
The dinner given by the Ohio society tc
Mr.. Whitelaw Reid, our late minister to
France, was charming affair 1t brought
together some of the brightest and most
alert minds in the country. Mr. Reid GER
t&inly had reason to feel highly compli-
mented, as the dinner was, in every sense
marked event. The Ohio society, which
by the way, is becoming q social power in
this city, was never better represented
than at this dinner. We have all heard
great deal about the potentially of Ohio anC
the way in which it has impressed Itself
upon public affairs since the beginning Of
the civil war. The fact was brought out a.
this dinner the other night, that not only il
the President of the United States an Ohio
man, but four members of his cabinet
Messrs. Foster, Elkins, Noble and Rusk-
had the honor to be born in that radian
and assertive state. Mr. Halstead, com,
menting upon this dinner says he was very
much struck by the pleasant intercourse
which took place between Mr.. George w
Childs, of Philadelphia, and MIR. Charlie!
A Dana. They sat side by side at thu
table. and their geniallty dlffused pleas
ant glow over the entire dining hall. TINT
fact that MIR. Dana had for many years
"guyed" and poked fun at the noble-hearteC
editor of the Ledger seemed IN the estima
ton of the company present, to call for
little GOODNESS. When this was not mani
tested an impression prevailed that thu
editorial
MILLENNIUM HAD ARRIVED.
As matter of fact, Mr.. Dana is one of tn
most genial men at the dinner table 1 eve
met. Although seventy-three years of age
his mind is as acute as that of a boy O
twenty, and he has a way of saying thing
which suggests a sweetness of temper al
most feminine He does not seem to bea
malace against those who have reviled him
} and he does not allow any of the amenitie
!, of the dining room to interfere with hi
pastime of faying people who happen t
cross his orbit. In other words, his Dime
geniality seems to be as evanescent as tn
, champagne. A few years ago 1 sat by hi
side at dinner given in Boston to Colone
Taylor, of the Globe. Notwithstanding tn
hostility which had been engendered be
: tween the Sun and the World, Mr.. Dan
was almost fatherly in his tenderness t
! me that evening. He chatted pleasant
about pretty much everything and every
} body. The impression left upon my min
was that Mr.. Dana was one of the sweetes
and least understood men in the journal
/ istic profession. Ever regarding him as
pirate, l shifted around before the evenin
was over to a point where / could almos
contemplate him as my Uncle Toby. w
parted the loveliesL of friends. A few day
afterward he wrote and published in tn
t Sun most malicious and unprovoked at
: tack upon me- l have been watching tn
t Sun every day since the Reid dinner to sc
1 how completely the venerable ogre will la
i out Mr. Childs with his editorial bludgeor
just by way of emphasizing his independ
ence.
3 THE DAY OF CHAOS
I The approach of the 1st of May means q
/ much seriousness for the city of New Yor
as the proposed uprising of the Anarchist
: in the chief cities of Europe. 1t is GU
moving day. For some reason altogethe
inscrutable, it seems to me, landlords an
] house owners of this city insist on ternlin
y ating all leases on the last day of April
I is impossible at any time of the year to rer
: an apartment or a house for period be
b yond the following 1st of May. This start
everybody to moving on the same day, an
: chaos is the result. Not only this, the d,
n mand for trucks and moving vans is 6
\ great that prices are fixed to suit the owl
4 ers of the same. A truckman who has bee
n an obsequious and intelligent canvasser fC