BRILLIANT MATCHMAKING.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3935, 29 February 1884, Page 4

BRILLIANT MATCHMAKING.

A Paris Journal records a very clever bit of matchmaking* executed in brilliant stylo last winter by a well-known New York woman. Her eldest daughter, it seems, had sailed from Now York with some friends for a tour in Europe, and, after doing tho Continent, had returned to tho French capital for several months of rest and pleasuring. Attractive and clover, she had iriaxiy suitors, some, more, some loss clesirable. Sho could not many them all, so sho adroitly reduced the number to two—the best of the lot of courso. Then sho wrote home to hor mother, explaining the exact situation of affairs, adding that thoy were both so handsome, agreeable, well-connected, iind rich, that «he could not decide between them, and closed with tho question, " What shall Ido ?" Ten days later she received a cable despatch from her mother:—"l sail to-morrow ; hold both until I come " The next transatlantic steamer brought Mrs Black with her second daughter just turned 18, and fresh from school. On her arrival tho old lady at once took the helm of affairs and steered so deftly through the dangerous waters that in a few weeks she reached port with all colours flying. To drop raotaphor, sho attended the wedding of her two daughters at the American Chapel on the same morning. After due examination she had decided that neither of the nice fellows should go out of the family.