Adventure in Search of a Wife.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 23 December 1890, Page 2

Adventure in Search of a Wife.

We regret to say that Matrimonial Agents are not wholly to be depended upon, they have to make their living and .though desirous to be as truthful as "will pay, are guilty at times of a suppression of facts which are misleading. In a town in this colony there lived if*iiot " a maiden fair to see "at any rate a buxom widow, and circumstances had occurred which caused her to desire to alter her present state. This fact she acquointed a matrimonial agent, and as a consequence she was informed that shortly a settler "every inch a man "would call upon her with the best intentions. The man, who had been for years living a lonely life in the bush had" suddenly become desperate to secure a wife, and he had also sought the services of this agent. After paying the usual inquiry fees he was informed that a most charming widow with two children was open to treaty. Hurriedly the man left the bush and clad in gorgeous apparel sped to the address given to him. Oh horrors ! poor deluded creature, the widow was found, she was fair, she had two children — but — she had nine more. These pledges of affection were also not white, but yellow, no enquiry having been made as to the race the lady's first choice had fallen on. He left, shaking the dust off his shoes, determined to adhere to single blessedness after such cruel deceit. .Amongst the few friends our maii possessed was one who also believed in matrimony, but in which he indulged too much, to his friends nothing, and having met him in this disconsolate state, kindly offered not .pnly his temporary second wife, but emphasized the attraction, by a cash bonus. However, the time was not ripe for such a deed, 'f distrust of one and all had entered the man's head, and ho refused, even to oblige a. friend, to take a woman home with him. The story is true though the district in which it occurred is in justice all parties withheld, but it will have served its purpose in telling, if it warns amorous bachelors from the guiles and wiles of matrimonial agents, and from the proposals of interested friends.