The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-17
RICH WOMEN III HUNTED.

Allowances That nW nolEU-8 lAuet
submit to WiIes of the Fortune
Hunter = Proposes Every Rich
Girl he Meets. "A
New York Advertiser: The position
=, an heiress is a vefy crying one at
ony time. II is not Sdi6aa for a pretty
rir, who is not loaded with too much
Constituencies or for plain girl who Is
minded by excessive vanity. 1t 10
worst OF all for plaid Il who knows
that she is plain. and Us oppressed by
the fear that every man who Is de-
Gently civil to her is pursuing her with
The hope Of marrying n2Aer for her
money.
An heIress very soon earns that she
Is regarded as "falr gauIe" by almost
every man with whom she is brought
IN contact, and many Of her would be
capturers, in their anxiety to secure
tbe prey as soon as Possible. do not
trouble to give her the ordinary law
TO treat her to the 95qInary delays
and decencies Of couttbhip = before
coming to a proposal atqmarriage.
one heiress tells a story Of certain
man who was invited 70 "a luncheon
party expressly to meet her, as she af-
terward found out. ne was intro
duced to her before lunch, and sat next
10 her during the meal, when he made
far from favorable impression on her.
owing to the cynical and vapid nature
Of his conversation. After lunch he
contrived to pin her into corner, on
pretense OF showing her some photo
graphs, and without more delay asked
her to marry him, She was so OUT
ragged by what she regarded as an in-
suit that she did not answer, turned
away and has since absolutely refused
his acquaintance. Hei~as asked by
an intimate friend why be hurried mat
tiers so, and he replied:
well. you see. was going to meet
Miss X,"-naming another iheiress-"at
dinner in the evening. and I wanted to
know whether Miss Y. would have me
or not, in order to know how to behave
to Miss x" e
In another case, a certain man was
in love with a girl whom he thought
had money. AS it hapbened, she had
but little. and he had less, SO she told
him they could not marry99
"Bnt there is my friendSJ Miss L.. the
helress. Why don't you make up to
her?V u
She thereupon lntroducg9 him to the
heiress. and in a very short time he told
the latter that she was the only girl he
ever loved. The helress laughed.
Either you must be very fergettul
or very ficlSle," she said. "a week ago
you Sere forever after my friend, dane
ed with her all night, were always with
her and had no eyes for any one else.
II you have forgotten her already, you
can have no heart at al and II you
have not forgotten her AOea can you
have the assurance to tell me that am
the only girl you ever loved?S
A form OF annoyance which every
heiress has TO go through Il that OF be-
ing proposed TO by certa4 humber OF
impecunious men, who meise It reg
ular business to offer themselves and
what they style their hearts to every
woman OffOrtune who COMFY their way.
Thoy appear to forget tifat they are
known as fortune hunters. RTd that the
history OF their proposals IS probably
the first thing that Is told about them
to each successive miss. There is one
young man Of rank who has proposed
to every helress during the past eight
years and has been refused ~ all. One
OF tine moro recent objects OF his ut.
tempts says that after he he'd proposed
to her three times she asked him how
much he would require per annum In
exchange for written promise never TO
propose to her again. - %
Nor is this the only form of annoy
ance that helresses are subject TO.
Within recent Times q weHtthy and
beautiful young lady was so tOrmented
by a rufiian who insisted on addressing
her and forcing his society upon her
wherever he met her (appfFptly with
the mad idea that she would marry him
at last to put an end to thisgpersecu-
tion), that she was at last Obliged to go
through the dlsagreeable bul lness OF
prosecuting him. in the hope q putting
and end to his insults.
Another heireSs was Destersd by a
correspondent who used td-wrtte her
anonymous letters, in which he not only
called her by every endearlng- and
protested his undying devotion to her,
but actually referred to thslr last
meeting" her last dear lettar." and
the kisses which he had pressed upon
her "deRr lips" Whether tbeSe letters
were Written by a mailman br scoun--
drel was never known, and they ceased
as unexpectedly as they had begun:
While they lasted they were a source OF
grent trouble to the poor girl, who was
especially anxious that they should not
fall into other hands than her own.
In third case an heiress received n
written proposal from a gentleman
whom She knew very slightly. II hap
pened shortly afterward that two girls
came to see her who were also hetresses
and Intimate friends OF hersss In the
course az conversation she Alluded to
the proposal which she had had, where
upon II transplred that both her vlsi-
tors had some little time before recelv-
cd proposals from the same man, which
they had refused. The heroine was so
Indignant at the heart1essness displayed
by the man that she referred to her
knowledge Of II In her reply
Another girl was really In love with
an impecunious man and consented joy
fully when he asked her to be his wire.
But when he found that her fortune
was to be settled on herself and that
her parents declined TO settle Ghything
on him. he broke of the engagement
Government by Injunction.
A writer in a New York paper says: