The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-04-21
NEBRASKA
men WANT
WIVES.
Mayor Of Omaha May Be Forced
Into Running a Matrimonial
Bureau.

Omaha. April 2i-Mayor Moores Of this
city has been somewhat forced into the
matrimonial bureau business. lie is now
the daily recipient OF scores Of letters
from unmarried men and women who are
anxious 10 be mated. The matter is the
outcome OF notice published in the daily
papers here as something Of joke, but IL
is gradually growing into serious proper
uOns
a circular letter came 70 Mayor Moorcs
on April II from a medical monthly IN
Ohio. which pointed Out 20 him that the
census returns showed "a great deficiency
OF females In Nebraska as compared 10
the number Of mai and the great eN-
cess OF the females In the East. This let
ter also suggested that something be done
IN the matter II egualizing affairs.
The mayor hardly noticed the lettef,
but the newspaper reporters as Joke
In their articles concerning 10 suggested
that the mayor be requested 20 handle
matrimonial bureau and by means OF pho
tographs and letters find wives for the
Western men and husbands for the East
Since then the letters and photographs
have been piling up on the mayors desk
with alarming rapidity The mayor -
IN qtlandary what 20 do I'm the matter.
The business evidently does not appeal
10 him as one that can well b included
IN the duties and dignity OF the office he
holds. Yet here at his right hand is the
photograph OF a woman I'm a picture hat
who has an income OF her own. is "of
blond complexion, tall and graceful, and
would be willing 10 become the wife OF a
Western man with steady employment
Would want one OF opposite type OF
beauty and corresponding temperament"
At his left hand is a Nebraska man
who rs seeking a woman of that very
description. From his letter II is learned
that he is ark-complexioned. and from
his picture he Is evidently short and awk-
ward, which would fulhll the requisite
'fnnnnElf9
1t Sc ms crime. said the mayor in
his good -humored way. ito keep those
two separated. They were evidently made
Tor each other. and some one ought TO
help them along. But, oh. the RESPONSE
bility of IL, Suppose | should go ahead
and establish matrimonial bureau In
those couples married and settled I'm Ne
braska. They would be right here. where
they could reach me- Why, at the end
OF two months there would be a man lay
ing for me at every dark alley, and wo-
men would come here 20 the office with
horsewhips. And IL does not look as II
the day Of horsewhips was far removed
either. Look at this He handed out
the following letter. written in a femi-
nine. hand and dated Neigh, Neb., for
inspection:
IF YOU persist in this matrimonial fool
ishness you are putting your head in a
moose that will mean your political un-
doing There are no more men In Ne
braska than we need am thirty-two
NtdlN VI dbSs anu WNllt years ago tne
assertion might have been true, II has
been long time since ] noticed any SUI
perfiuity OF mer You had better shake
off this matrimonial incubus which tho
Eastern publication. which does not know
Nebraska spirit, has tried to fix upon
YOU"
No went on the mayor 81 don't
think i can risk IL. And yet there Is
another side to the matter. Here are
number OF applications for wives from
right hero In Omaha. These men prob.
ably worked for me In the last election
They certainly are entitled TO any help |
can give them In little matter OF this
kind. | think II might do 10 box up a
few cars of ladies from. say poor over
crowded Massachusetts, and then turn
them loose here In forty-acre lot along
with the same number of men. Such a
scheme ought, TO go 10 help the population
or the state along wonderfully. and would
make more happy homes iu Nebraska
than any homestead laws that you could
devise
NO. sir" interrupted the young woman
secretary OF the mayor, we haven't too
many men out here. III the women of the
East are not satisfied. why IT'S their fu-
neral and not ours. DO let things be as
they are.