St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-22
MATCHES At The FAIR.
1T rs CONSIDERED A GOOD MATRI-
MCRIdL MARKET.
HE BOUGHT PHoroGRAPHs

Men and Women Sight Seeing
Together Naturally Become
Attached to One Another
Bedouin Maiden Elopes With
an Arabian-Amazons Are All
Said to Be Married.
"Chicago is fairly good matrimonial
MARKET" said Washington visitor to
the worlds fair in conversation with
the correspondent Of the Washington
Star. He had made a careful study of
the human exhibit, and knew what he
was talking about.
at never occurred to me that it is a
matrimonial market at ALL" said the
correspondent.
"Oh,wel you don't know about those
things" he said. every place that
large crowds come to is a matrimonial
market. Now. this is not as good as the
seashore in one way, for the people are
very busy seeing the sights, and. conse-
quently, have not much time to see
each other, but it is better than the sea-
shore in another sense. because there
are as many men as women. On the
whole. pronounce it fairly good" and
he walked away with the important air
that belongs to Judge of awards.
AS man leaves Washington and
Journeys to the West. he becomes aware
that he is penetrating the region where
many of the occupations that are re-
served for men chiefly in the East are
filled by young women. They sell him
his ticket on the elevated railroad, they
make out his check for the dinner he has
| eaten, they even sit behind the gratings
| at the banks, they are almost as numer-
| Gus in the great office buildings as the
men themselves. 1t is only natural.
therefore, TO find hundreds of these
| girls attending to the wants of the visit
ors at the fair. Some are good looking,
some are ugly, some are sweet and
| pleasant, others are sour and disagree
| BILE, but, really, very few can be claSsed
among the last named. Nearly all OF
! them are young. The foreign exhibitor:
! have caught the American spirit, and IT
| all their sections they have girls to wait
| upon the public and answer questions
| and some of them can reply to queS
| ton that comes in any one of five Ian
guages.
AS A MATRIMONIAL MARKET.
But about the fair as matrimonial
| market. IL Will probably be found a
| the end that good many HUNDREDS oil
! people have fallen in love with each
| other who would neyer,in all likelihood
| have met If it had not been for the fair
! They are introduced or they introduce
| themselves at the hotel or boarding
! house and then they proceed to do the
! fair together. As long as they &c
| about in a business-like way looking
at all the sights they have little OppOr-
tunity to do anything else, but wher
! evening comes and with it the quie
| seat and the fireworks and Examinations
are the attractions, then, perhaps. few
| tender words may be spoken. After {
| certain stage in the worlds fair love
! making there are no more sights to bt
seen, for the pair avoid the crowds anC
seek only secluded spots where they
can bill and COO. 1t was one of these
smitten people that confessed to th(
writer that the first day of hi:
| arrival he had seen something
! of the exhibits; that the SECOND
| day he had met 1.-THE one woman
| in all the world who" ETC., and tina
after that he had been endeavoriug
| with some success, 10 see her without
| being bothered by the rest of the show,
In the morning they would sit on {
| bench on the Wooded island. Toward
afternoon the crowd would drive them
| away from there. He said he tried tax
ing her around in the Ferris wheel, bu