Show A LOTTERY chances for a husband bought by maidens the only marriageable maa in captured by the poorest of twenty young tonne women who drew tor fai hima A Drummer 8 story A sun reporter comani coliny over from iram philadelphia fell or was thrown juto into conversation with a chicago drummer he might inight have merely fallen in into con u ersa tion with anyone else but with wilba a chicago drummer he be was thrown in for a chicago drummer let any passenger on a train escape the co conversational al if he can help elp it and lie he most n ays ys does docs ITY by jove jor oll 14 tan tan he said with the seductive i 1 larity arity 1 of all drummers drum mem that littas tale talc you have just told me ah the summer girls mobbing the only man at the hotel a patching to a cooperative matrimonial snap I 1 came across one time when I 1 was in a section in Massa massachusetts chuse etts where men are so scarce that when w hen the girls give a party they have to find a man with a search u baj rant there Y was as a wedding at the biggest church in the town the evening evenin I 1 got there and the whole town was illuminated and everybody was out as if there was a a Four fourth of july celebration going on and naturally I 1 asked what all the row was about then the landlord of the tavern told me it seemed that there were 20 marriageable young women in the town and only one man and he was so poor that he be was afraid to venture being thrifty tyas as most yankees are and not earing caring to assume a obligations without corresponding in capital the girls were well to do that is to say they were worth or apiece but that was hardly enough for the thrifty eligible so he proposed a cooperative matrimonial scheme as I 1 have hare called it though the name exactly appropriate 3 proposition was that all the gh in so much for a chance at him no db ab to be less than and each subscription of that amount entitling the subs subscriber criter to one ticket with add additional it tickets at each the girls giris were anxious the young mart man desirable and the enthusiasm soon become intense one girl who was worth a little more than the others or was moreana more anxious I 1 dont recall which blew in 1003 on six tickets and several of them harl bad more than one chance on the day aay of the drawing there was something over 11 in the pool and the ann was pleased to death the girls on the other land hand were dreadfully nervous a and nd anxious for while the man was a sure winner only one of them was go ing to get the man and the pot the drawing 0 took place in the town hall where an admission of ten cents was wai charged the sum to 0 6 go 60 0 to a consolation fund f 1111 d to be distributed among the 19 unsuccessful ones the drawing was conducted by the town officers and was very simple the names of the girls be ing put in one hat those more than one chance having baring their names a corresponding number of times in the hat a and the name of the mand n with a number of blanks in the theother other then the drawing was made and at tho draw the young mans name naine cams came out with that of a girl giri who had bad only one chance and of course she was declared the winner the wedding wadding two months later was wak the event of the season and as strange gi as it may seem to you bf the cases of lottery where both drew prizes for they lived very happily 1 and an d are still living that way I 1 sup suppose pam though I 1 seen them in years another odd thing about it wa that the unsuccessful ticket holders seemed to take a proprietary interest in jhc thel thc couple and they have a reunion every year and call for an accounting though they never ask for dividends on their in vestment I 1 may say though that the lucky man has made money aggee to pay to each of contributors the laoo 1000 on her marriage and up to thet thel last time I 1 heard from them helain he had paid three or four of them are in maiden graves however andi the chances are he will never have as up as much as they gave him N at sun |