Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-01-09
IMPORT THEIR WOMEN.
Fatherland Furnishes MANY Hunca.
rim Brides Who Cross the
Ocean for Homes,

The old colonial scheme of bargain
ing for wives has become popular
among the Hungarian residents of
Schoenville. A score of blooming dam
sells from the fair plains of the Danube
lately arrived in Pittsburgh and hur-
ried at once to the new settlement,
where they will soon become the bet
ter halves of as many husky workmen
employed in the Pressed Steel car
works. The method of the Virginia
planters in purchasing spouse for
few pounds of tobacco will be followed
in certain measure in Schoenville. OF
course there will be no open barter
ing and money is not likely to be ex-
changed, but nevertheless the men who
claim the hands of the Hungarian
maidens must be able to show that
they are able to support the brides who
have journeyed so far to complete the
conjugal happiness of the mill men.
Since the founding of the new town
on the banks of the Ohio there has
been an amazing dearth of marriage
able women in the community. Amer
lean girls of the Gibson type, the tailor
made variety or the favorite silk-lined
beauties do not meet with much favor
in the eyes of Schoenville, says the
Philadelphia Press.
The would-be bridegrooms there are
compelled to get up early and work
late, so that there is little opportunity
to go accounting beyond their own
neighborhood. Finally the news of the
scarcity of eligible girls in Schoenville
drifted beyond the sea. 1t was pleas
ant duty for Cupid to perform, and
when he whispered the glad tidings
under the cottage windows on the far
away plains of Hungary he was greeted
with many rapturous sigh. Twenty
girls were willing to risk the tempests
of an autumn voyage on the Atlantic
to become the brides of happy homes
in. America, and, banding themselves
together with Cupid, they came over
under the love gods tender care. When
they reached their journeys end the
entire population of the town was on
hand to receive them. Two engage
ments had been announced before noon
and others will follow in rapid success
sion. Courtships will be short in
Schoenville, and other maidens soon
will be imported. AS may be supposed,
the task of having and holding a wife
in the new town is not one of extreme
ease, and the men who have been made
happy will treat their wives well.
Abandoned Farm Lands in England.
Over considerable extent of Sails
bury plain, which is now used for mil
itary maneuvers, quantities of broken
| fints are to be seen on the short turf.
These fints have tale to tell besides
that in which the geologist revels.
They show that the land on which they
lie was formerly cultivated. Corn once
waved over considerable portion of
the great plain. It was abandoned as
| Improbable long before the drop in
prices 20 or rs years ago. A statement
was recently made in one of the daily
papers that two farms in Essex, on the
borders of the Epping forest, are to be
had rent free, provided the tenant pays
all rates, etc, and keeps the farm
buildings in proper repair.-London Ex.
press. -: =. ~ -
Interesting. .--s
Gent-What is the reason you charge
twice as much for my cuffs as you did
formerly? - ,,*-#
observation-disclosures you have
begun making pencil notes on them.