The Elk County Advocate

Advertising for a Husband.

A New York paper facetiously observes: Advertising for husbands and wives we had supposed to be confined to the Western nations; but it seems that they understand the peculiar art also in the East. A young woman in Goa, a maritime city of India, has adopted a novel method of securing a matrimonial partner. She has posted in the municipal chamber an announcement that a young lady of eighteen, of good position and comely appearance, having an annual income of 1,500 xerafims, wishes to wed a man who understands English and Portuguese (she herself is of Portuguese descent), and the metrical system of accounts, and has an income of 1,000 xerafims. She adds that on a given day, at noon, she will walk through the principal streets with a green umbrella in her right hand and a green handkerchief in her left, after which she will, at a certain place, receive proposals from suitors in person, and select him she likes best. The latest advices from Goa are earlier than the date of her proposed promenade, and we await intelligence as to the result thereof with burning expectation. We are confident that a young woman with so much enterprise, energy and audacity will have a number of suitors, who must be attracted, if not by her looks and carriage, at least by her green umbrella and green handkerchief. It is pleasant to observe that she is so particular about the metrical system, full knowledge of which is indispensable to a well-regulated husband. "Men unacquainted with the system often make wretched husbands; but a man who has the metrical system at his finger-ends never fails in the fullest performance of his connubial duty."