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Show A New Marriage Bureau. Somebodv, a long time ago. gav this advice to struggling young men- "If you want to make a rich marriage, you must go where the rich girls aic" Nowadays, thc surest and speediest way for a young man to marrv rich would acem to be to enter a social settlement, not because he will meet moro rich girls by this means than bv anv other, but because the rich girls who Inhabit or hover about settlements settle-ments are apt to possess peeuliurly emotional emo-tional and Impressionable temperaments. The proportion of male settlement workers work-ers who have had romances with rich slrls so far is strikingly large, and of course the end is not yet. And now tlio Pastor-Stokes romance comes to prove that settlements are likewise conduclvo to marriages between poor girls and rich men. Altogether, the settlement as a marriage mar-riage bureau is proving to be an eminent success In this respect. If in no other, it Is a social lovcler of the first water. Boston Traveler. |