The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-05
NOTES IN HAT Innings.
Factory Girls for whom They Have
Secured Husbands.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
AS in all other manufacturing towns.
the factory girls of Reading Pa, have
lots Of fun inserting little notes in pack
ages of articles they manufacture and
send out TO all parts Of the world. The
best fun Of this kind is enjoyed by the
girls who work in factories turning out
articles used exclusively by men. Hence
hat factory girls receive possibly the larg-
est mail.
y have known at least a dozen girls
who became the wives of men who found
their little notes in the hats they bought"
said the forewoman of a hat factory.
Several girls have their sisters at home
making copies for the following note:
Il hope you will be pleased with this
hat. 1 have tried to line and trim it sat
isfactorlly. If you have a few minutes
time to spare, and can do it, please write
and tell me how you like your hat OF
course, you must be a single man, as 1
am single girl. Lovers are scarce in
this town,
THE girls slip the notes under the lin
ing of the hats, allowing just an end 10
stick out under the sweat band A nota
so placed would not be seen unless the
sweat band was turned down. OF
course, hundreds of hats are sent ont
ana possibly the notes are never seen
but very many are found and answered
me girls receive answers from all over
the united States, principally the west.
Inc letters they receive would make
quite collection. Generally thew are
read out aloud in the shop. Very MANY
replies from the west say that girls are
very scarce out there. Some men want
TO correspond with a view to matrimonv.
others just for pastime. One man recent
~ wrote that he wanted a hat trimmed
by the same girl.
"A few days ago a letter was received
from southwestern Colorado for a girl
who died here eight months ago Sbe
had put in her trimmed hats a lot Of
notes. The writer had nearly worn ont
his hat before he discovered the note
he oiIerea TO send the girl money to come
out to him If she'd marry him Poor
Mary, she had died of pneumonia. The
picture of the man in the letter looked
as II he would make any girl a eood
husband. Mary's sister had opened tbe
letter. She answered it. They are now
corresponding.
III girl exchanges a few letters with
an unknown correspondent, and the mans
answers suit, she generally sends a letter
10 the towns chief of police or mayor. and
asks commercially all abot;t-the character
OF hef correspondent. In nearly every in
stance the officials send courteous renlias
ana tell all the girl wants to know. Photo.
graphs are exchanged and little gifts are
received generally curiosities from far
away states. One of our girls receives let
ters from man at Puget Sound, from an
other in Southern California, and from
another IN Havana and from another in
Yucatan. The girls have gone into the
stamp collection business, and orr factorv
album is quite a curiosity in its vav
OF course, the girls can't answer all the
letters they receive. The COWBOYS write
letters
owns LOCO acres and 5000 head of cattle.
and wants a wife. The letters eeneraIIv
have full descriptions of the men. They
all ask for photographs of the girls. some
of the girls send pictures of actresses. as
handsome as they can get them but very
o1ten the girls depends upon their own
faces, because many of them are really
pretty and winning. One factory yfrl
made a practice of send photographs Of
deceased maiden aunt, with side curls
and fancy head dress, telling her CORE
spondent she had a kind heart and was
very respectable. One correspondent re-
turned the picture saying he was not
making collection of freaks.
Some girls who have been married a
few years receive answers to their notes.
I know two young Indiana men who
came east for brides and secured them
In all other instances the girls went
west or south and became happy wives
so far as | know. Last year two girls
who made vests for a wholesale house.
and had slipped notes into the bottoms
of the watch pockets, secured husbands.
Another girl of my acquaintance, who
works in a stocking factory, slipped a
note into the toe Of a No. II sock and
about sixteen months later heard from the
buyer. who was an iron ore miner up in
Michigan. They are still corresponding
l think. Girls who pack note paper occa-
sionally write their names and addresses
with lead pencil on one of the sheets
Sometimes they get replies If the note pa
per falls into the hands of romantic young
men. But frequently married men ans
swer these notes"