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Show Cupid Hears Wail Of Mercur Youths. 0. N. 0. Club of This City to Investigate Inves-tigate Their Offer. The following is from theHerald-Republican theHerald-Republican under date of January 29th, and from present indications M ount Pleasant will loose a great many of its most lovely damsels, providing, however, that the would-be would-be husbands are composed of the right kind of material. We know for a fact that theie is no place under un-der the sun that the boys from Mercur Mer-cur could go and select a held-mate for life that would make a better wife than any of the members of the 0. N. 0. The cry of the lovelorn Cupid who li rs at Mercur, where he has failed to supply the wants of eighteen bachelors has been heard in Mount Pleasant. Orange blossoms are sprouting in the hearts of eleven young women, who have vowed that at least all but seven of those eighteen eigh-teen Mercur bach, urs shall be unwed un-wed not much longer. When the Herald-Republican two weeks ago published the appeal of the Mercur young men for wives who would be good and tender to them, and give them the "happy ever after" there were no Mercur girls to give them. The 0. N. 0. club of Mount Pleasant, with a membership mem-bership of eleven young maids, promptly asssmbled. Unfinished business was relegated to the waste basket and eleven young women began be-gan to dream of love and a cottage at Mercur. There are lots of young men in Mount Pleasant, but the 0. N. 0. club has tried them all and found them wanting. Some are too stingy, some too impecunious. Some are too polite to all the girls, and some don't seem to care for any, Some have been coaxed and petted to no avail and others are known to have proposed pro-posed to every girl in the town. So the 0. N. 0. club was just in the mood, this leap year time, to send their thoughts all fancy free, to where eighteen bachelors were en-haloed en-haloed by the enchantment that distance dis-tance lends. After frequent sessions, the appointment ap-pointment of many committees and a revision of the by-laws, the members mem-bers of the 0. N. 0. club have decided decid-ed what to do. They will shake the names in one of their brothers' hats and each 0. N. 0. girl will wiite a letter to the bachelor whose name she-draws from the lot. The seven names left over will be left for future fu-ture consideration, Also the young women will write a general letter to the Mercur postmaster, post-master, the president of the bank there and other substantial people, inquiring about the different bache. lors. "Can they dance? Are they nice? Do they clean their feet on the front rug when they go home? Do they stay out late at niKht? Are they loving and kind? Can they support wives? Are they young enough to be not too old?" and a host of other questions planned to give a clean bill of husbandship will be included in this general letter of investigation. Individual replies disposing of each bachelor separately will be requested And when the eleven most attractive attrac-tive men have been picked from the eighteen who want to woo and be loved, eleven Mount Pleasant young women will begin to tell about them- selves and invite eleven Sunday call- j ers to come around to father's' house. And tnen the orange blossoms will begin to grow and eleven sets of friends will wonder how they are' going to shower so many brides that ! will go away to Mercur. The eleven member,, of the 0 N O club are: Goldie Faux, Christie Neilson, Florence Monson, Tressie Larsen, Hilda Madsen, Stella Mcin' tosh, Stella Truscott, Virgie Whit lock, Viola Whittaker, Ettie Rolph and Ida Merz. Some of these are blonds anil some are brunettes. Al are good cooks, they themselves siy, and none is so old she ought to I e younger. The Mercur bachelois are first referred, but all others wi'i be looked over by the 0. N. 0. club. |