The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-25
THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING. as.

miner, and II you can persuade good
looking woman to come out here and
take = look at me I can gamble she will
have me. l won't show her my
bronzed mug. but I'll let her get a
sGuint at the ore. II she'll name her
figure she can have II. Mines put in her
name the day before she becomes Mrs.
Hawkins.
The price" OF woman-for with
such quick matrimonial arrangements
true love" goes to the wall and poor
Cupid goes home out Of his occupation
depends upon the woman and the loca-
ton. In thriving villages, where every
man owns his own farm, pretty girl
wants good house clear" big acre
age or land, and good-looking man.
The live stock Is also taken into account
by her. Homelier girls get less. And
SO all the way down to the woman who
Is angular and sour. and who must be
contented with farm hand and lots Of
hard work. That Is the way things are
managed in the woman's Ell Dorados.
where every woman can have a hus-
band "as quick as wink" and where
every man Is waiting for a girl to come
along.
In the most desolate spot on earth.
where delegation Of women Is expected
to arrive almost any day, the matrons
or the town are determined that there
snail be romance In their city and
enough courtship to make matters spicy
gossip. The married men are likewise
inclined to this arrangement, as part Of
the cost OF transportation comes out OF
their pockets as taxpayers.
Ihe matrons propose to open the
amusement halls every night and give
sociables fairs, and tea drinklnss. They
nave planned an amateur drama tic
company. and az for dances, each
Is to have dancing class under her own
chaperonage. The girls upon the day
or their arrival are to be given recep-
ton. and all will become acquainted
speedily.
BARGAINS IN WIVES.
The greatest bargain sale of wives
ever known took place upon O recently
opened domain few years ago.
frantic call was sent to the
cities for one hundred women.
Ana poor girls, out of fun and
curiosity and willingness to have a
home. went out there. The men met
them at the station. The girls looked
them over shyly. BY evening all the
girls had found boarding places In the
wooden shanties of the town" And
by Sunday the parson was kept busy
tying the nuptial knots. The prettiest
girls and the richest ones got the
wealthiest men. A girl with $50 was an
heiress and man with 500 was a
prince. The plain girls took up with
poor fellows with hopeNAnd chances. 1t
was quick, natural selection.
One very handsome fellow, with
blond curls, got a very pretty girl,
though neither had cent. 1t was a
case OF beauty. The rude courtship was
carried on In the three evenings be-
tween the time the girls arrived and
Sunday, and within a week there were
nearly one hundred small wooden
houses going up in the town.
Inere Is no name for this peculiar
state OF society where women are want
ed to make homes and where money is
laid down for them and paid to them
10 queen 1t over a home. A glaring
headline in an English paper once called
1t THE Barter Of Women In America. :"
But among those who see the 50 tisfac.
tory after workings it is merely the
good-natured consent Of the girls to ad-
Just themselves to their country, which
Is yet new enough not to be as evenly
distributed as 1t will be when the twen-
ty-hrst century man and woman come
in.