The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-19
COME HERE TO EARN DOWRIES
GIRLS FROM EUROPE WHO SEEK
MEANS TO MARRY.
One VINO wants 10 Set Her husband Up
as q Carpenter Another With Her
Eye on a Dellcatessen ~shop-Fathers
and Mothers Here on the Same Errand,

q Carpenter Another With Her
Eye on q Dellcatessen shop-Fathers
and Mothers Here on the SAM Errand.
The landlady OF a German boarding
house on the upper East Side says that
two Of the girls who are stopping with
her at present have come to this country
for the express purpose OF earning a mar
rage portion and hat she knows OF many
other cases in which young women from
Germany and Austria have been led TO
cross the ocean by a similar purpose.
One Of the two girls, il a native Of a Ger
transporting town in Hungary. She Is a
flower maker and there was plenty OF work
for her at her trade In her birthplace. but
wages were so low that her pay was scarcely
| enough TO support herself and her sister
who Is a doaf-mute. She Is forever telling
her landlady and fellow boarders OF tho
young fellow who she says is In love with
her. When any one expresses surprise
that he should have let her come all the
way to America TO make money for him
she ~rejoins:
'Oh, well, who ever married q penniless
grip l wouldn't have agreed to marry
him even If he had been willing. l don't
want him TO throw 1t up to me when we
quarrel that | was poor as a church mouse
"heh ne hafrieu ms aheie ~ ~
ing in such a marriage
her lover Is u carpenter uy IIaoo' anu
sne expects 'os'ay hele ui,Ii 'io
enough money 70 s'ai' nm ~
on ms +" NOOK ohon las oocnn'e N'
IN TINS country
She had no difficulty In obtaining an
pioyment AT ner uaue' OUT IL .urheu ou'
that the methoos whlch she 'earneu |"
hungary were not iono"eo IN 'he american
shops ana her earnings were mucn sniane,
than she had expected ihlhsS iooAeu
rather gloomy aithoush IN ner letters eo
the young carpenter she presented INC BLU
auoh IN the most rosoa'e eoioiS +,
i don't want MIN 70 Know 'ne nun
she explained 70 her landlady ana tne
boarders, III he does he may give up al
hope OF my ever getting a marriages por-
uon ana oegih 10 rui' WIN o'her s"s
Are you sure ne doesn nrt Win o'her
girls as II isf
Not he. hes thc most hohest reno"
you ever saw he CONSIDERS mihsei oouho
by our engagement TO keep away from
other rirls, but when he sees that ! am
braakinu nv mart Of the contract be may
I'LL hi,n.oi, to- % do os ba p,easas
ehn.A ni"Hon %
And yet you say ne loves your
'of course no does. II you read his
letters YOU wouldn't have any doubts about
q, RI, than men will no men. Won know
M, - - ,.aLinn rood rec.
"heh he heaie 4 o"i ""N"e So 49,
ana my bank account Is growing ne Will DC
attached 20 me. He'll think Of tho work.
shon he'll nr IN when we are married. and
.hot LII Laan hin from, making a fool 81
Si"'so,t wI,b other girls
hlIl-eIi WIN o'hs' s"9' ,
But " he sees tMat am ooWhheartco ana
there Ii little hone OF his getting the money
he needs TO start him In business, he, too,
-, =. a.-.ho.,,ad .nd ,hsn bo xiu horir
""e', H~".eI.a. - - 81
70 iook 'or o"'eou o'"I s"S
That won't do, you know. i nave thought
II all out
She expected IN cour.e Of time TO pick
-, -, 80 ., no. ,r.da cd %
up wv 49,
make better wages out a eul ifieho gov
her a job In a laundry at Better pay than she
could hons 10 earn Ut making flowers
{ Sba no. been two months In her new place
ga h.r hsnk hooL shows nroeress
nv 80"
All sho needs Is 5000, and II she retains
her present place she expects 20 return
worries her is tho fact that the work Is
rather hard and the hours long.
I an not used 70 working 50 hard.
am afrnid Il will spoil my looks, she Otter.
complained 60 her @haaayr 10 d.s,,,.
fellow 10 start In business. sho has como
TO this country 10 earn money enough for
a rousseau and Tor "a marriage portion
large enough 10 induce Tho clerk ~ some
t. own delicatcssen G~ls,nc,s m her native
town IN pfusss = the iioel 81 her ~"
She u an orphan n has any nuinier
o. poor nuuts. She " rather pump and