The Cairo Daily Bulletin

TO FOOLISH GIRLS.

A WORD OF WARNING—WHAT MAY COME OF CORRESPONDENCE WITH UNKNOWN FELLOWS—BEWARE OF NEWSPAPER PERSONALS.

During the progress of a divorce case tried in Cincinnati a few days ago, some disclosures were made which must be highly interesting to any foolish young women who have allowed themselves to be led into correspondence with strangers, through the introductory medium of newspaper advertisements. It appeared that the defendant in the case, who was accused of infidelity and desertion, had advertised in the Waverly Magazine for correspondence with young ladies between seventeen and twenty years of age, with a view to matrimony," describing himself as a gentleman of ample fortune; and a large box of letters and photographs of young women who had answered his advertisement was produced in the court room. These were examined with great interest by the jury, reporters, and others, and it is very probable that some of the letters may be published for the amusement of the public. It was shown that in one instance, at least, the rascal had proceeded so far as to contract an engagement of marriage with a young woman of respectable family who had answered his advertisement, although he had a wife and child living at the time. How many more such cases there were cannot be known. If girls belonging to respectable families will be so inexcusably foolish as to enter into correspondence with men of whom they know nothing except from the description they give of themselves in advertisements, they must not expect sympathy if their pictures and their love letters come to light in such a manner as to expose them to great mortification.