THE MATRIMONIAL MARKET.

Globe, Volume II, Issue 146, 20 November 1874, Page 3

THE MATRIMONIAL MARKET.

Is it possible, we venture to wonder, that matrimonial alliances are to any appreciable extent brought about by advertisements in the journals devoted to that line of business? We say journals, in the plural, advisedly ; for London now boasts of two at least of these remarkable broad-sheets. If properly managed, there is, perhaps, no real reason why such papers should not exist, but the necessity for them is a phenomenon. We had fancied that getting married was the easiest thing in the world; in fact the difficulty with some people seems rather to lie in keeping unmarried or in breaking the nuptial bond once riveted. The advertisements contained in one of these journals, which, by the way, is being distributed gratis in the streets, are so comical as almost to transcend the bound of the rraisemhlable and make one think they must be the production of some wag who docs not grudge sixteen stamps for the sake of a joke. W e extract half a dozen announcements culled at random from the columns of this extraordinary newspaper ; Elsie,' just seventeen, will have a little money when she comes of age. Being modest, would rather not give any description of herself, but would first like to exchange photographs with a nice looking gentleman, under thirty, and leave him to judge for himself.

An English nobleman, aged thirty-four, fair, tall, and very fond of manly sports, wishes to meet with a nice young lady for a wife, younger than himself. A ill any lady notice this appeal ? One who can play the guitar preferred. A country gentleman, aged twenty-eight, and possessed of large landed property, a line man, being just six feet without his boots, wants to hear from a pretty young lady about eighteen, with golden hair and blue eyes, w ho would like a country life.

Susan, a cook, twenty-seven years of age, industrious, and a capital manager, would like to hear from a steady, industrious young man, in her own position of life. Emma, aged twenty-four, with golden hair and blue eyes, very musical, and can speak four languages, would like to correspond with a dark professional gentleman possessed of good means. Mary, a country lass, very jolly and good tempered, age seventeen, has a little money, wants to hoar from a gentleman of suitable age and fair means.