A SMART CAMPAIGN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4659, 10 December 1883, Page 2

A SMART CAMPAIGN.

A Paris journal records a very clerer bit of matchmaking executed in a brilliant style last winter by a well known New York woman. Her eldest daughter it seems, had sailed from New York \Tith some friends for a tour in Europe, and I after "doing" the Continent,had returned . to the French, capital for several months of rest and pleasuring. Attractive and clever, she had m^ny suitors, some more, some less desirable. She could not marry them all, so she adroitly reduced the number to two-»the best of the lot of course. Then she wrote home to her mother explaining the situation of affairs, adding that they were both so handsome, agreeable, well connected, and rich:that she could not decide between t&em, and. closed .with the question "What shall I do ? " Ten days latter she received a cable :' despatch flbm her mother: "I sail tomorrow ; hold both till I come." The next^Transatlantic steamer brought Mrs Blank with her. second daughter just turned eighteen and fresh from school; On her arrival the old lady at once took the helm of affairs and steered so deftly through the waters that in a few weeks she reached port with all colours flying. To drop metaphor, she attended the American Chapel on the same morning. After due examination she decided that neither of the nice fellows should, go ou,t of ih.9 family. ..,-' .