MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 43, 15 November 1882, Page 3

MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.

A Sheffield gentleman, " exceeding well-known in public life," Ims beei creating amusement for the " legal an< commercial ch'cles " of that ci(j by hi: adventures in search of a wife. Hilton teams with horrid examples of what hai befallen impulsive gentlemen who refus* to listen to Punch's advice to those about to marry. From the luckless frog, whe on matrimonial schemes intent, refused tc submit his intentions to maternal sanction, to Caleb in search of a wife, they have all been more or less unfortunate. But this Sheffield gentleman was perhaps excepl ionally so. That he deserved his fate I will not venture to deny. For no one, however well known in local public life, ought to expect, on the strength of an advertisement in a daily f>aper, to find a " young, educated, ovely, fascinating, musical, lively widow with some property" ready to accept lira at a moment's notice. Mr Weller. senior, has left it on record, and he spoke with the voice of experience, that widows are not to be trusted ; but to what purpose if middle-aged gentlemen will still journey from Sheffield to Turnbrdge Wells to meet their fate in the shape of an angry brother-in-law ? The painful part of the story is the behaviour of that brother-in-law, over which we gladly draw a veil. Suffice it to say that Caleb returned to Sheffield bruised and sore; aEd thence indited a reproachful letter to the fair deceiver. Once more the unsympathetic male relative intervened, and explained that the lady in question had been confined for seven years in a ludatic asylum, and most unkindly concluded, " I am thankful to say I had the great pleasure of kicking you out of her house. " The moral is obvious. — Globe.