The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-24

oughiy dOmesticated and intelligent Young
heiress" is offered by her guardians as
l4Nely to make an excellent Wife for
foreign gentleman" The Countess Of
-" who describes herself as young
and charming, possessed OF considerable
present ana prospective wealth ought 10
have no difficulty in realizing her ambition
Il thorough English gentleman, and
the guardians of two young English heir
esses' viii have an embarrassing choice
among the foreign gentlemen of title, 10
whom they wish 10 sell ne girls, while the
board Of Managers Of the Marriage Assoc
cation limited. should be able 20 DO good
business with the young English nelress
of remarkable personal attractions and
considerable wealth. wOhm il has on COM
mission sale 10 the highest bidder
II might be suggested that the fore
gong advertisements, which have been
selected almost at haphazard from many
hundfeds OF similar ones, are mostly or
a bogus character; but the w Orlds
Great Marriage Association. Limited,
places the authenticity of its matrimonial
transactions beyond doubt in the papers
which accompany the copy of the Ca
zette, which ii forwards 10 each remitter
OF hvpence in stamps. one of these pa
pers calls itself "a few extracts from
many thousand of recent letters of thanks
and announcements OF engagements or
marriages effected through its agency
All the extracts are dated U.s. and
presumably, therefore, five years are COW
cred by the word recent; but even SO,
the record is truly remarkable and it
is placed beyond suspicion by the GER
tificate of a firm of well known char
tered accountants, who act as auditors
TO the association, and certify that the
extracts are genuine. The leading eX-
tracts are from AN English lady of IL
tie" who negotiated her sisters mar
riage; an "heiress of high social stand
ing, who married into the peerage, and
who was given away upon her marriage
peer; from a number of sons of English
peers; from many clergymen, some in
the United States; from country gentle
men, barristers, high government oIn-
hpirpgEpG kinds.
GERS, magistrates, shipOwners, colonial
judges, and so on down to artisans, gar
deners, and farmers daughters. All OF
this correspondence concludes IN the
same way, to wit: that the marriage
having been satisfactorily arranged, the
associations commission OF + VIII De
forthwith RENTED. Herein, Of course,
lies the kernel of the matter.
The association does not place wealthy
and pretty heiresSes in the arms OF needy
gentlemen of good social standing, and so
on, without a handsome consideratien,
and there is no hint in any Of the papers
forwarded as TO how much or now little
e. may mean. This, however, is q
matter which concerns the association and
civilization generally is the fact that girls
are undoubtedly sold to, or at any rate
placed in the way of men requiring special
ties in the matrimonial line, and the worst
feature of the business is the free use
which the guardians OF heiresses make OF
the associations advertising columns to
dispose of their wards Heiresses do not
grow upon blackberry bushes, and famt-
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possessed of means. cannot have any diff
Guilty in getting married in the ordinary
course of things. The only apparent mo-
tive, therefore, which their guardians can
have in catalOgulng the young LADIES'
attractions for public sale is the oppor-
tunity which it gives them OF sharing
the spoils.
on the other hand there is published the
opinion of a well known American cler-
gyman,' who writes: please be assured
that shall send to any others Especially
init / hay in hsa
past your address, and hope to help what
/ consider to be a philanthropic institu-
ton" Viewed in some lights, the asso-
Citations operations may be regarded as
incidentally philanthropic. The spinster,
slowly whitening in her stalk, may have
the making of an excellent wife for
middle-aged bachelor, whom she might
never meet in ordinary life; but by adj
vertsing in the Gazette, she is placed
in possession of the photographs and other
particulars concerning a certain number
of gentlemen who, for one reason or an
other are willing to take her as she is.
or, rather, as she describes herself. The
transaction may be bona fide from be-
ginning to end, and result in frightening
two lonely lives, which would otherwise
gone down the grade of life, dull ana
wretched Even young and pretty girls,
without bowers, have difficulty often in
finding husbands, and to such the pages
of the Gazette present many advertise
ments from men, young and old, rich and
poor, in all parts of the world, who seek
the companionship for life of just such
maids as live ana die unWeQQed in scores
in every country district in England. on
the whole, the Marriage Association may
perhaps be said to do more harm than
good; for, although from one reason or an
other mot specified in the ADVERTISEMENT,
the goods offered may be frequently a lit
tie off color, still. each transaction Of
persons who otherwise might never have
had it. That, at any rate, the parties to
the transaction are in the first instance
usually grateful for the association ser
nlqnan haNnnn a
tracts of letters before US.
Some of them refer amusingly to the
initatory stages of the courtship thus
commercially inaugurated. A gentleman
writes begging the association not to send
a certain lady's photograph to any other
gentleman, as, though he has not seen her,
he has fallen in love with her already,
and another tells them not to send Mrs.
- any more names of gentlemen, he
is engaged to her. Here ii is to be fear
ed, the first growls of the green-eyed mon
ster may be distinguished. Innumerable
ladies write to say 81 am engaged TO Mr..
-, so please do not send me any more
photographs and not few in announc-
ing their own marriage, send IN the names
of their younger sisters as candidates in
the same competitive system Of matrimO-
ny. A Canadian settler writes in behalf
of a young lady to whom he was intro
duced: Il hope you will assist Miss -
to a good husband, as she really does de-
serve one, only she would not go TO Can
ada"
commence on the most business like foot
ing, as in the following extract from the
letter of a "high-class firm of London so
licitors:" I'VE are instructed by our eli
ent, who is a peer and aged, to make in
quiry respecting your advertisement of
the Goth inst We should be obliged by
your sending full particulars as to her
position, health, fortune, etc" Sometimes
the associations labors were rewarded by
an outbreak of love at first sight between
their clients, as narrated in the following
letter from young lady of means:'
Dear Sir: In reply TO your kind letter of
congratulation, / think if the gentleman
you allude to and myself bring our ar
rangements to a successful marriage /
can only most heartily thank you for your
exertions on my behalf. 1 have had the
pleasure to see Mr.. on the subject,
and must say he is a most genial and So
ciable gentleman, and / really think would
make any one a loving husband, as ! felt
happy in his companionship, and / have
received a letter saying the pleasure my
company had afforded so that may al
most say ii is mutual Yours truly, -.
2. S. - l may tell you l have
lady friend l have coniided in, and
whom Igthink, any gentleman may feel
happy to correspond with
We have said that the Gazette does not
bid for regular subscribers; nor does 1t
apparently expect to appeal to the ordi-