"MATRIMONIAL TICKETS."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 28 February 1907, Page 4

"MATRIMONIAL TICKETS."

Out of their nerd and invention the railroads of the West have now evolved a matrimonial railway ticket, the very newest device for getting tinlandless man upon the nianles., land, it is an established fact that the be-v settler is the married man, \Hu>so domestic instincts lead him and his to '1 permanent home. The interest most bonelitcd by the development of the new West is the railroad company, ana tlierefoiv they seek to indue*; settlers to locate along their line. Out of tiis has come a scheme to attach a five bride's coupon to the settler's railway ticket. Tiie scheme can be best explained by a suppositious ea.se (says the American correspondent of the •*i-3vening Star"). John Brown, a worthy young man. leaves the home nest for the \Ve>t or South-"West, and -secures a farm. To retain this homestead he must build a house and othcrw.sc improve it. lie can for a time turn his own hoil, look after hi? own stock, mend his fences, do his own cooking, sewing, and darning, hut there are many things that he cannot do which go to make a home, lie needa helpmate. He ha- spent all tV 1 money he couid scratch up. How, then, can he get her? Looking over a ■newspaper htf reads a railway advertisement ottering him or any other settler along the line who may desire to go back to St. Louis, Chicago, or Milwaukee for a wife to give Ihe bride a free ticket to her home. This to Mr 15rown is a solution of the problem. He writes to his best girl and closes the bargain. A week or two inter he goes to the station and buv> one of 'Hie new tickets having a brides coupon at tached, goes back for her, and her fanon the road is a wedding present from the railroad which encourages that sort of a tiling.