| Show A NEW MATRIMONIAL SCHEME A thoughtful and ingenious farmer in New Jersey has Invented 3 plan which will no doubt commend Itself to bachelors bache-lors throughout the land He proposes to dispose of himself In matrimony by means of a ruffle Apparently ho was Impressed wllli tho great competition among fair women for the hand of the bachelor Governor of ansas who received re-ceived proposals of marriage from many thousand ladles scattered abroad In all the States of the Union While at first glance it might appear Improbable Improb-able that a mere farmer should besought be-sought after as eagerly as 3 Governor It is not likely that a lady who ham a wedding view ever stops to consider the rank of the party of the second part A woman is a naturalborn missionary mis-sionary and her anxiety to get married Js purely a Ucslro to do good to tome J one to reform someone And that is the reason why 1 real naughty delightfully such good I fully bad man stands a chance In the matrimonial market It has been said that marriage Is a lottery and our New Jersey friend is making no radical departure In converting convert-ing It Into a ralile The advantages of the system are obvious Suppose he should put the price oC chances at 25 cents each and should sell 100000 of them In that case the lucky farmer would get not only a bride but would get a fortune as well And the bride herself would not only get n husband but would come Into the enjoyment of the fortune contributed by her unsuccessful unsuc-cessful rivals Could any fortune be more delightful But 525000 need not be the limit In some sections of the country where there is a great preponderance pre-ponderance of women chances would be worth more and In Boston for instance in-stance they would he taken eagerly at 5 apiece Then In the matter of age or color there is I an opportunity I the man has a prejudice in favor or a young wife he might bar all women over a certain age or If that la not practicable he might bar all or an uncertain age or lie might raise the price of chance to ladles in that class As to the color line he might pursue the same plan If he Is willing to incur the odium in the North ot closing the doors of opportunity op-portunity against an American cltixcn ess pimply because she happens to have a dark skin Properly financed Instead of having a dot of 25000 a much greater fortune for-tune might be realized and then after the wedding the bride and glom would settle down without any heartburn ings The groom would or should have the assurance that he had been fairly captured without any false pretense pre-tense while the bride would know that ptgroput eo y9n3I all box pAT > e j t js to be hoped that the New eJrsey man will not copyright his plan I should be free for all Baltimore Sun |
