The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-29

the miner "and il you can persuade a
sood-loCklng woman 20 come out here and
take look az me / can gamble she VIII
nave me- I won't show her my own
oronzed mug. but I'll let her get sQuint
az the ore II she'll name her figure she
can have Il. Mines put In her name the
oay before she becomes Mrs. Hawkins"
ne price or q Woman-for with such
quick matrimonial arrangements "true
love goes 20 the wall and poor Cupid goes
nome out Of occupauOn-depends upon the
woman and the location. In thriving Wiz
lages, where every man WINS his own farm.
a pretty girl wants a good house clear
a big acreage of land and a Eood-ioOking
man. The live stock Is also taken into
account by her. Homelier girls get less.
And so all the way down 10 the woman
who is angular and sour, and who must
ue contented with a farm hand and lots
OF hard work That is the way things are
managed in the woman's FL Dorados.
where every woman can have a husband
as quick as wink" and where every man
Is waiting for a girl TO come along.
In the most desolate spot upon earth,
where delegation Of women IS expected
to arrive almost any day, the matrons of
the town are determined that there shall
be no romance in their city and enough
courtship TO make matters spicy gossip.
The married men are likewise inclined
10 this arrangement as part of the cost
OF transportation comes out Of their pock-
cts as taxpayers
The matrons propose to open the amuse-
ment halls every night and give sOciables,
fairs and tea drinkings. They have plan
ned an amateur dramatic company, and
as Tor dances, each Is to have a dancing
class under her own chaperonage. The
girls, upon the day of their arrival are
TO be given reception, and all will become
acquainted speedily.
The greatest bargain sale OF wives ever
known took place upon recently opened
domain few years ago. A frantic call
was sent 10 the cities for 100 women. And
poor girls out OF fun and curiosity, went
out there. The men met them a the sta
ton. The girls looked them over shyly.
BY evening all the girls had found board
ing places in the wooden shanties Of the
town And by Sunday the parson was
Kept busy tying the nupt!al knots. The
prettiest girls and the richest ones got the
wealthiest men. A girl with $50 was an
heiress and man with 800 was a prince.
The plain girls took up with poor fellows
with hopes and chances. 1t was quick,
natural selection.
one very handsome fellow, with blond
curls. got very pretty girl though neith-
er had cent 1t was a case of beauty.
The rude cOurtship was carried on in the
three evenings between the time the girls
arrived and Sunday, and within a week
there We're nearly 100 small wooden
houses going up in the town.
There is no name for this peculiar state
of society where women are wanted to
make homes and where money is laid
down for them and paid to them to queen
1t over home. glazing headline in an
English paper once called II The Barter
of Women in America" But among those
who see the satisfactory after workings
it Is merely the good-natured consent of
the girls to adjust themselves to their
country which is yet new enough not to
be as evenly distributed as it Will be when
the twenty-first century man and woman
coma