Omaha daily bee., 1895-08-04
LOOKING FOR a HUSBAND.
Experience of u Bright and ChRtty
LttIc Girl md Her ChMm.

Experience of u Bright and ChRtty
Little Girl and Her Chum.
She as chatty little girl with a tilted
nose and she seemed quite intent upon tell
ing the reporter her experience. "Td like to
awfully," she said. "to have it published. 1t
is good enough, better than half the things
you read in the papers, and it took $3.50 out
of my spending money. l had seen the ad-
vertisements in the papers, you know, all
about the matrimonial bureaus, and l did
want to know something about them"
She laid her hand upon the Chicago Chron-
cle reporters arm and looked into his face
and she had pretty eyes. She lowered her
voice to a mere whisper, and it was soft
pleading voice. Now" she began, Il will
tell you all about it if you won't give my
name or tell any one it's me-
The solemn promise was made.
at all came about this way she COM
menced. Last Sunday Name and | were
reading one of the Sunday papers, and there
was more silly stuff about men wanting
wives and women wanting noble, true hus-
bands. Then there were these agencies that
get wives and husbands for people. 1t did
seem awfully funny, and Name and l wond-
cred about it more than little. Name said
she'd like to know how thew went about it,
and said I'd like to, too, and then we talked
a long time about it. At last we said we
would try it to see how it was, and then
we thought for long time to get about 1t.
OF course, you know, we took no stock in it,
Names engaged, and, and" she looked
knowingly into the reporters eyes, well,
the short and long of it, Name and l started
out, and we appeared to act as green as could
be, not to be found out, you see. Name
said we should pass for cousins, and /
Thought it best, and we were to make out
we we're not pleased with our home; we
agreed to lie awfully
GREETED WITH SMILES.
1--WE went into downtown place first, and
young girl met us in the entrance hall.
There was a door for ladies' to go in and
door for the men. The girl in the outer office
smiled at US and we smiled back,
and we played green well, for we
felt green. Then | said to the girl, 1 sup
pose you know what took us here, ana the
girl said yes, and she asked us to wait until
the head lady should come in Then. she
showed us into an inner office with two little
| curtained rooms opening on. we asked the
girl any amount of questions and she an
swered them and gave us II paper, and there
were hundreds of wealthy, moral and hand
some men wanting affectlonate wives. After
some time the head lady came in, and an ele-
gantly dressed elderly man was with her
She was woman with a kind face, and she
wore a white shirt waist and black skirt. She
was somewhere in the SOS and she didn't
seem an ugly woman. She treated us very
kind and motherly and asked US why we
wanted to get married. Then we told the lie
we had fxed up and said how harsh they
were to us at home and that we wanted to
get some one who would treat us Kindly.
The agent then wanted to know II we were
of legal age and we told her we were. she
asked us IL we had any accomplishments
and where we were educated and II we had
any means of our own. She turned most or
her questions to me; Name did not have much
to say. She asked us what kind OF men we
| wanted and we told her we wanted man
who was tall, with dark hair and eyes and
well educated and able to support wife in
good style. Name said she did not want a
man who would drink or was immoral, ana
| that she wanted to be sure that he was wnat
| he pretended to be. and Name asked If they
| were sure that all the men were honest in
what they said about themselves. The agent
| looked at Name and said My dear girl, 1
| have daughters of my own and i would 90
| nothinp by girl who comes to me that
would not do for my own child. This agency
has it's own reputation to keep. up and we
| have a bureau to investigate the character
| and standing of all our members. we nave
M one on our list who is not what he rep
resents himself to be. When we discover
that a man or woman Is decelying us ms
name is at once taken from our lists ana ms
money is not refunded to him. When girl
nomes and confides In me would no more
abuse her trust than l would with my own
child And the woman did look earnest
"H'" PAYING FOR HER FUN.
"After I had talked for some time she told
me that there was young man In Evanston
who was Just what l wanted and she was
sure that he would be pleased with me. She
| said II | registered she would see to our
meeting and she said the fee was 80 for one
wear / wondered If It would really be worth
| SIS. but | was hard up for fun and paid 1t
out and she said she would send message
| to this young man in Evanston and for me TO
come next morning. After | went wished
had that So back but | made up my mind
that the fun might be worth it. / wondered
what the young man was really like. The
| woman said he was handsome and that his
parents were wealthy, and that he was doing
business with his father. She said he was
very bashful. Name and went to see another
agent on the west side. woman in the
outer office talked to us for while and we
told the same story that we did at the other
place We made out that we were ashamed
to tell the story to man. She said that the
agent was a man and she only did clerical
work. She then brought us to man and we
acted as II We were very much ashamed, and
perhaps we were ashamed of our lies, and
that was why We acted so we'll The woman
went first to the man and told him about us
and he said that he was sure to get us the
kind of a husband that We wanted He said
that he would not promise but that he would
introduce us TO some very desirable young
men who wanted wives and were in earnest.
and he showed us lot of photographs, and
some Of them were nice looking men. | paid
| $3.50 here and he said that he would give me
| the Introduction the day after tomorrow"
''Did they make you pay the first thing?"
! the reporter asked
"oh, no." she said, "both agents said few
| people Joined the first time. but ! was in a
| hurry to have the fun over with. The fun
niest thing OF II all was that the man was
telling us all the time what good judge he
was OF human nature and that he could tell
| sincere person the minute he set his eyes
upon them. He did this 10 assure us that he
would not be fooled in any person that he
brought to us. He said he should have our
photographs but we did not want eorre-
| spondents. We wanted to meet men in this
| city. He told us that there was now in
| Chicago a very wealthy man from Idaho who