Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1917 — GETS 100 PER CENT WIFE THROUGH AD-VENTURE [ARTICLE]

GETS 100 PER CENT WIFE THROUGH AD-VENTURE

Brlde-to-Be of New Yorker, However, Not One of Those Who Answered His Plea. —“ New York—Arthur Loeb has found a wife. He might have found a thousand or so after his appeal to the newspapers for aid in his search for a model companion not afraid of roughing it in the tropics. The chosen one did not propose to him. He proposed to her. She is Miss Hilda Freedman, employed as private secretary in a business house. According to Loeb, although she was not 100 per Cent’ a candidate, she is 100 per cent a woman, and he expects her to be 100 per cent a comfort to him when he returns with her to the wilds of Panama and the Argentine. His business as head of an engineering and con- ’ trading firm is likely to keep him In Central and South America tor several years. "Mixa Freedman did not knOW Sttything about my search for a wife through the newspapers," said Loeb. “Tn fact, when she did hear of it she was not at all pleased. "No, our meeting came about in an entirely different way. It was the greatest piece of luck for me that you ever heard of. "A young woman telephoned me from Atlantic City. She was one of the numerous applicants. She told . me she might marry me, and Invited me to Atlantic City to meet her. "I went, of course, being anxious not to miss any chance of finding a suitable wife, and —well, that meeting didn’t go any further. But, as luck would have it, this young woman happened to introduce me to a friend of hers —and who do you suppose the friend wasY “Yes, it was- Miss Hilda Freedman. Now, you understand. Miss Freedman was not an applicant and didn’t know a thing about that wife-hunting business, because, of course, her friend hadn’t told her—she told me she hadn’t -- - - ... "It was just the most extraordinary piece of luck for me. We’ll be married about a month from now, and soon after that we’ll sail for Buenos Ayres."