The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-14

| photo, remain most sincerely yours" Some evidently we'll l-schooled suppli- | cants were clever enough to see that an agency might have a hand in 1t and wrote, If you represent a matrimonial bureau you need not answer" One man is perfectly indifferent to agencies. He | wants a wife. and wants her quick He Is
 a mining man just down from Alaska and is going back in twelve days He writes ''ef you like 70 com wet me anser or com out her at ones, and of you com tellegraf had. my adres is." Expects Legacy from Russell Sage. Another man is a Canadian and rela- tive of Russell Sage, from whom he says he expects a legacy. The Stages are good people, he says, and he has never had to earn his living.
 Paoifics advertisement in his home paper just below this one:
 RETIRED business man, independently
 wealthy. never married. wants poor, but
 honest, wife Address Mir. Weller, Real
 Estate Board Bldg, Chicago, H." He writes to Pacific:
 "The inclosed personals both appear In the same paper here. Tis sad to think that two hearts with but single thought should be so far and yet so near apart lost in a great city, We hasten to act the fairy godmother' that yours may be the first, rather than the last, of Mrs. Spauiding's fate
 '"There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at it's flood leads on to love. Surely you would not allow a few paltry dollars to close the door to happiness when by giving them to charity CD you can attain the 'Job-iacor required in the inclosed ad. May the hour soon arrive for rice and old slippers"
 Answers poured in to such advertise ments and with the list of names thus &C., quared a thriving business was under taken. Pacific wrote to 100 men until they had joined the Standard Correspondence Club. when her attentions suddenly ceased alt.1l ifava ttIr ha fhhUn instead. The club sent punches of pho tographs with names and addresses and descriptions to every member, and the member eorrespended with those he would IT he did not like the looks of his first batch he could send to the club for a second.
 Wanted Husbands for 10000.
 Sometimes the agency advertised in the papers of the country that 10000 wives were wanted for good husbands. That was when the club was short of women members. Again husbands were adver- tised as for sale. In every case the money possessions or earning capacity Of the in- dividual was given. That the public IS fond of answering advertisements is proven by the business of the club, rom every corner of the globe wherever Eng lish-speahng people are to be founo came answers to these advertisements.
 The gullfbinty of the public and its patience with such scheme is illustrated in the following letter which is but one of hundreds found in the ofnce or the club:
 Nov. 1, lso2.-Dear Friend:I reserved your last a lieu days ago and l just set down to answer to you l am working away from home I onlye come home about once a month so l don't think l will send anye money for a while for I wont have tine to, bother with bouisness now for a while have spent quite sun now on tha kind of bisness l trid to get som other young man to adres you thay onIW n l cant do anye more for while you may rite to me again anye time vile answer it I am a young yet have farm and plentye of everything but money l have to work for that my father is dead my mother is getting old.
 T vii son have to get maryed thair now girls wort botering with in this place I hade severl gerls adres iron out your way and rote to then and got no anser so thair must be some thing rong. am go- ing to try you in the spring If nothing hapens their is onyle one girl in that list I would care anye thing for that's the one on the right hand corner on the first page. She sutes me fine I cant rite for more now"
 The letter comes from Nova Scotia farm and evidences the patient determine ton of the writer.
 In joining the club the applicant fills out blank giving thorough descrfp. ton of himself and his wishes. Some of these applications are worth studying. Here is that of a Swede whose name is John Anderson. He fails to give a de- scription of his personal appearance, but begins half way down the list:
 "'Dispostion-'Fine.'
 Religion-Lutherer.'
 "Nationaiity-Suedes. a
 Present occupation-'Stan Engenear.'
 Have you a legal right to marry?- 'Yas ful Rithame 'ime.'
 Have we your permission to give your description and name and addreSs?-('Na I do not care fer that.O'
 Ff-., lA Co, oka~xr later letter seems to indicate. Mir. An derson wants ma monee back, but suffering a similar fate with many fellow club members he complained to no aval His money was probably no longer re- turnable. He had nothing for it but to read the Lovers Budget, to which he had subscribed $2 and to be as happy as man conscious of defeat could be |
 Some Mention of Promises.
 Another prospective benedict and a countryman of MT. Anderson had some !! annoyances with the club, which he thus mentions:
 Gold Bug Ky Nov l o2.-Deare Sir I t S and can from their 1t Bein week if they don't write I wood Like fore yeussed to send my money Back l woudept at setn atte mOneyBu I wanted me wife wood Like fore you to send me the girls name that will write are send my Money Back as ye promist to do hay full i'll my Promis."
 The Lovers Budget semi-morthly magazine which was foisted upon unsus- pecting members, is tiny leafiet con- taining things of supposed interest to | lovers. Among other things are sample | love letters the various jewels that are suitable for engagement rings and how jewels may be arranged to spell words such as dearest" Mary" sweetheart" The club member who Pnid s2 extra for | the Budget was supposed to get extra to be given first chance at the best bargain. and, in plain, to have sort of guaranty of a wealthy and hand some helpmate.
 Show Partiality for Wealth.
 The pile of applications proves that the majority of the clubbers had a partiality marry money" one member would write; 'at the same time l want beautiful | wife and one who has talent for music" Music seems to be one of the at tributes to perfect witehood, at least so sterner members of hte club think. More that the girl of their heart must play either the piano or the organ.
 One man explained his wish in this fashion T have a nice cottage organ which has not been used since my first wife died. I want a wife to play the or time send me someone who is a perfect cook, if she has some money so much the better"
 An old soldier who claims to be a straightforward, up-to-date gentleman, who has never been married and who is now 55 years old, with a pension from the | Government of ST, a month, wants to marry a young musician. ''I am lover of music' he writes, and must have this wish gra tifed in my old age. l don't care if my wife can't cook very well, so long as she can either sing or play. 1 would 1,z4h arNfa !