MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2215, 9 February 1886, Page 2

MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISING.

Some time ago a young lady; einpyed. in a hat factory at D— secured for hef, self a «;ood husband under rather circumstances. In a fit of abstraction she-; once wrote her name onthe inner side of- ; a leather hat-band, and afterwards'' thought no more about it. The hat was ' at length purchased in the capital by; a young gentleman, who happening one day - to turn down the lining, espied the writing. His interest was awakened/ and the. r end of the atoiy was that the youug'man* and the needlewoman made a match of it.This romantio incident did not fail to pro- , duce a remarkable eflect on all the young A women engaged in hat-making. and hat-bands were covered with the charming autographs of the fair ones. Unsuspecting liusbands who had purchased new hats were not a little astonished.wlieh' their better halves produced as if .bytaagic\ from under their hat-linings a number of young ladies' photos, love-letters, and other suspicious articles. The husbands, who tried in vain to persuade their wives that they knew nothing whatever of the contents of their hats, at last threatened to sue the hatter for damages, and when the other day a new parcel of hats arrived from D—, which was found on examination to contain signatures, photos, locks of hair, and written setting forth that the writer was pretfred to marry the future wearer of the'hat, our tradesman, rendered cautious, wrote at once to D—, refusing to accept the goods. An effectual stop has thus been • put to this mode of matrimonial adver-tising.-Napier Telegraph.