CLIPPINGS FROM HOME PAPERS.

Evening Star, Issue 3357, 22 November 1873, Page 3

CLIPPINGS FROM HOME PAPERS.

A MATRIMONIAL ADVKRTISKMKNT.' Erom a weekly.paper published in New York, we (Echo) cull the following splendid chance for the benefit of English ladies of wealth;— “Wanted a Wife.—A gentlemen of education, hiirb order of talent, prepossessing iqqwaranco, well-bred, respectable, untiring and high ambition, strong practical common sense, superior business capacity, delicate views of honor, in the prime of life, with gentle heart and strong affections, chivalrous impulses and native goodness, desires to unite his fortunes in marriage with a lady of wealth, and for a noble purpose only. He is attractive ; true to all the better instincts of the human heart, and delicately careful of the wants and the happiness of others, and enduring to attachment; is disposed to soften all asperities with a rare love and gentle influences, and will pledge himself to entire happiness of her he weds, and will give every guarantee of .this. The very best of references given in due time. - Address P. P. Kowe, care B. Sails, Toledo, Ohio,” It will be observed that this gentleman possesses in himself every noble quality, and everything that can make a man eligible except the “yellow earth.” This, therefore, it will he noticed, is the only thing which he requires front the lady who may offer herself to him. About youth, beauty, temper, or accomplishments he seems indifferent, unless his willingness to “soften all asperities with a rare love ” be taken as ii bid for an untempered wife. We place him in all his glory before our country-women, merely remarking that, unless inordinate vanity is one of his failings, he ought to he cheap at any price. EXTRAORDINARY PETITION, The preponderance of females in the population of the New England States is so great that the question of their employment lias become a serious problem. They overflow the factories, fill the stores, and hasten by the score to answer any advertisement fen- an employee. Some of the women of Massachusetts imagine they see a way out of the difficulty, and have sent a petition to the State Legislation to carry thenviews into effect. Their suggestion amounts simply to this the legalisation of polygamy “ in cases where the first wife does not object, and where it is made evident that the man is able to support the additional burden laid unon his resources,” “ Prejudice and custom,” tuey say, “ have decided in restricting the husband to*a single wife ;” but this restriction they condemn as unjust and uusoriptural. With the Mormon example before their eyes, it is strange that American women could be found to support such a petition ; yet we read that “ this document bears over 200 signatures, all of them belonging to •women of American parentage, and many of the family names have been well known in New England for a century." A LADY AT THE lUII. A letter from Chicago, in the Toronto Glohr, says :—“ One day last week a curious scene was enacted at one of the Courts of this City. A lady appeared as counsel for another woman. The young attorney was Miss Alta M. Hnlctt, having offices in the most crowded part of the south side devoted to business and professional avocations. The case was a very simple one, and offered no fair criterion of the p.wers of Miss Hulett, but afforded an opportunity for the display on her part of considerable, abilities as a talker. Miss Hulott was born in Kockford, and, after graduating at the female seminary at that place, entered a law office, where she studied diligently for two years. Then she came to this city, and’ for a year read in the office of Messrs Sleeper and Whitson, two respectable but. not very showy members of the local bar. A week since she was admitted to the bar, after a severe examination before the Supreme Court. Miss Hulett is only nineteen years of age, and is of slight build—a brunette of the most pronounced type. She is a pleasant conversationalist, aild, while engaged in professional duties, has not neglected to acquire those accomplishments which constitute the charms of tme wcmanhood. The unqualified success which has attended her first suit has drawn muck attention to her, and, so far as her chances of progress iu her profession arc concerned, has been an excellent advertisement. The only legal journal issued iu this city is published by a lady (Mrs Myra Uradwell), who, however, has the. advantage of having Judge Bradwell for a husband, and of forty years' experience.”