The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-08-01
AGED MILLIONAIRE
LOOKING FOR Wife

NEW YORK. Special-Iamaica
saw more blUe-eyed, blonde haired,
roSy-cAeeked girls Wednesday than il
ever before held at one time, and
Fulton Avnue had so many of them
coming and going and looking at the
street numbers that it looked like a
thOroughfare OF some old Saxon city.
David l.. HardenbrOOk, a real estate
dealer at 319 Fulton Avenue. had
been requested by nice old million
alre of SiNty-twO years to find him
twenty-year-old wife with blonde hair,
blue eyes and red cheeks. The mat
ter had got into the papers, and there
We're girls, answering the description
more or less, making their way to
Jamaica all afternoon. Mr.. Harden
brook was away in New York and
his office was closed for the time
being. but when he got home We'd
nesday night and learned about the
deluge he had escaped he looked
sober. He had his hands filled with
letters.
This being a Dan Cupid is Sc
friend who is worth nearly $4,000
900. put it down at SS.OOO.OOO to
be conservative when / told n re
porter about 1t yesterday. He is sixty
two years old and his wife died eight
months ago. He has no bad habits
Gently he went up on the farm where
he was born and tried the quiet life.
ON that farm is a wonderful spring
, that he remembered as a boy to have
been used by local doctors for their
patients, and also used to keep the
cattle i'm fine shape. He has been
drinking this water. with the result
that he is now perfectly well and as
strong as he ever was. and his COM
pleNion is like that of man of TWEEN
~. The other day he was in New
York and told me he could not stand
the lOnelinessf -his daughter and son
are both marT1ad aud live apart from
him-and that 9he was thinking of
getting married again if he could find
such an ideal wife as his first one
was. He asked me to try to find
such a one for him, and I consented.
The requirements are that she shall
he a blonde, weighing rather more
than 140 pounds, twenty years old, of
good character. happy temperament
fair education and good family. 1t is
not necessary that she shall have
money.
To Investigate Candidates.
This man was once n successful
merchant in New York and his life
with his wife was ideal. His children
do not object to his marrying again
but fear he will not get such a wife
rs their mother was. The children
are about forty years old. I am get
ting lots of letters today from girls
all over this part Of the country and
eome Of them are interesting. They
send their pictures and ask for an
introduction. I shall carefully investi-
gate the most promising one through
their pastors and social and business
connections. They will never know
they are being investigated and no
one will know what it is for If I find
one who / think is worthy 7 shall
N n hone
that he may like her.
ANY girl who gets him will get a
prize"
Picking up some or the letters he
had received from blondes during the
Gay. Mr.. HardenbroOk read bits of
them. without giving the names or
addresses. one girl said she didn't
have blue eyes. but did have two
dimples that more than made up for
the lack of blue. AS a matter of fact.
blue eyes are not necessary in this
case, Mr.. Hardenbrook says, but were
just mentioned to suggest the sweet
sort Of temperament wanted in the
prospective bride. Another girl said
she had blonde hair and blue eyes
and very small feet-the smallest she
thought. in HObOken-but she admit
ted having a very quick temper. She
thought. however. she could restrain
it if the millionaire could check his.
Another Hoboken girl wrote:
n Near Venus.
Dear Mr. HardenbrOOk.-I saw
your advertisement in the morning
paper for a wife for a nice old gen
tleman Of siXty-twO. / have beautiful
blonde hair past my waist. blue eyes
like old china and a slightly turned
up nose. My friends say, though, that
il is a pretty nose. l think so some
times myself when ] look in the glass.
have perfect teeth, a full round face
with rosy cheeks. and am well form
ed and in perfect health. / am al
most twenty-One years old and weigh
120 pounds. / am five feet four inches
tall and well educated, having gone
through the public schools. ] play the
piano, and am milliner by trade
and am the daughter of a poor man.
/ inclose three pictures of myself,
though they are not good. Hoping
that ! come up to your standard. 1
remain, yours truly, S. G. l., HO-
boken."
Here is another:
Dear Mr.. HardenbroO,-I have just
passed my twentieth birthday and
have blonde hair, blue eyes, a happy,
cheerful disposition and have been in
the East only two years. ] am of
one of the best families in America.
1 should expect to give very good ref
ercnces and receive them also. l
should Verv much like to hear from
you in regard to the matter in the
paper. Yours. r. G. H., Manhattan"
A girl from Paterson wrote that
she represented a syndicate of young
people who had read the story and
who knew just the girl for the mil
ionaire. "She is a perfect LOhengrin
Elsa" she wrote.