The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-08-15
WIDOW RIDICULES
HER EASY VICTIMS
Matrimonial Bureau Woman
Claims to Be Public
BenefaCtreSS.
WERE LUDICR0US LOVERS
Every One Anxious to Marry Her in
Order to Share Home and
Take Money,
By DOROTHY DIX.

By DOROTHY DIX.
NEW YORK. Aug. l5.-In olden times.
when the sirens wished 10 lure men into
their nets they sat upon the rocks and
cornbed their hair with d golden comb
and sang a little song.
The modern Gree sits at home in a
luxuriously furnished house and inserts
a modest little lad" in the newspaper
or answers the wall Of a lonely heart
that has taken that way of seeking its
affinity.
Both methods work. The victims come
and depart poorer and wiser men. and
the way the trick was done. was anus
ingIv explained by Mrs. Bina +. Yer
rault-or Mrs. Helen Hamilton-held IN
court 10 answer the charge OF various
men who assert that they had wooed
her with costly jewels and expensive
feeds. and cold. hard cash, under the
promise 10 marry, but that she had fail
ed to make good. Wherefore, they claim
ed that they had been cruelty robbed and
that her very love letters. breathing
VOWS of devotion were false and mis-
leading and laid her liable to the law
for using the mails for fraudulent pur-
Are Dressed Women.
Hamilton and her friend. Mrs. James
PembrrtOn Brown, entered their law
yer's Office. neither one looked Ike the
conventional siren. They were just two
remarkably nice looking, well-dressed
women.
Mrs. Hamilton is stoUter than her
friend. though she has a fine. strong.
athletic figure, and Is a woman that one
would guess TO be about thirty years
old.
Her complexion is rather sallow, her
features rather heavy. her hair glossy
brown. Her eyes, though, are large and
beautiful. and she has a big, humorous
mouth and smiles continually, showing
strong white regular teeth.
Saws She Is Public Benefactor.
1T really" she said. consider myself
a public benefactor for having taken IN
these men. VINO seek TO get acquainted
with women by means or personals in
papers. No man who does such things
intends any good to the woman A Alan
who really wants to honestly marry d
woman does not advertise for wife as
he would for cook. Every one or
them intends some wrong 10 the
woman, 10 take advantage Of her in
some way, and 20 get her money, II she
has any. And so I think I Lave done
women service in giving some of
these smart ones q lesson Maybe by
the time they get through with learn
ing it they Will be willing 10 go back
and marry some good girl in their own
station in life.
Suitors Were Ridiculous.
But they were too funny" she
laughed with a flash of white teeth.
Let me tell YOU there is nothing else
on earth SO easy to fool as "a man who
is trying 10 marry woman for her
money. That's where we got them We
have a finely furnished house. with rugs
and bric-a-brac and the bCOks-the aD-
Dlrtenances Of a woman OF wealth. you
know, and a button al the door and
butler looming up IN the back ground
and the man would come and take
look al the stage setting and go down on
their knees and pop the question right
of at the first visit.
Il never even told McClelland, the
little Philadelphia grocer, that had
money He thought he saw II, and saw
himself Iuxllriating in that house instead
of selling salt Goldfish, and he could
not give me enough prese ats 70 MAKE
himself solid. Every man OF them from
first 10 last told me from the beginning
that he would just come and live in my
Little Suckers Squeal.
Wasn't it too funny? They were all
going TO settle down and have me sup
port them. They were trying 20 get
what I had. and when I got some Of
their money they all sQuealed. And
such suckers, How do you suppose that
rHra
young. good-looking and rich. has to ad-
vertise for a husband in the papers, or
that a woman would fall in love with
any man and be ready 10 turn over
$1,000 year income at sight2
"Of course, IL is not so surprising
about the Philadelphia. but what
amused me most was Mr.. Kiesler. I an
swered his advertisement He said he
wanted TO meet "a rich widow, or girl.
object matrimony, and he came 20 see
me and he. too. went GOWN before the
opulent look of mine He told me that
he had high position in the Mutual
Life and that he knew all about the oil
ferent forms OF graft In the Insurance
business and was in the habit OF pro-
hting by f.. Adding that he considered
IL q Christian duty TO help take away
some OF this ill-gotten gain from these
grafterS-
AOAlS On MS AACGo.
'TIe was the worst" pursued Mrs.
Verrault HE would spend hours on
his knees. kissing my hand. and declar-
fng that if 7 ever changed. he would kill
himself on my front steps. He also ex-
pressed a perfect willingness II come
and live in my house, where he thought
he could be very happy on my $1,000
a year"
He said that all Hunsarians expected
tc marry rich Americans when they
come to this country. and the reason he
advertised was because he did not know
how 10 set acquainted with a woman
with money, He gave me a ring, and
some money. and a lOcket tC PIT his
picture in. Goodness. a man ought 10
Iay You for wearing his picture around
your neck, ought he not2 J think IL
would be worth 900 a year 10 wear
1SiesleTs, hut it's nonsense about his
spending any $500 on me at the res
taurants.
Was Unnoticed as Stenographer.
Everyone of them believed that 1 was
rich and silly enough 10 let him get
hold of my fortune. that is. the very