Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1884 — Matrimonial Tests. [ARTICLE]

Matrimonial Tests.

The following “points” are derived from the experience of an English lady in good social positiort,. but limited means, who, for several years has been taking “clients” in need of husbands, to watering places during the season. In ten years she scores twenty-three successes and nine failures, this fisher of men. It appears that dark girls go off best in spring and autum, and blondes at mid summer; that the market is apt to be dull in the beginning of the season, and to grow brisk toward the close; that very young, fair men like brunettes best, but veer slowly toward their lighter sisters as the fair men grow older, and that the converse is as true of very young dark men; that brunettes almost as invariably prefer fanmen, irrespective of age, and that the predilection of blondes is generally an opposite one; that blonde girls work off very ill in raw, coldish weather.; that to couple a fair and a dark girl in walking, driving, etc., is generally, but not always, good policy, since the intended victim sometimes falls in love with each in succession, and ends by taking neither; and, finally, that while mountains and lakes prove lively incentives to flirtation, at early periods, the seaside was decidedly the stronger in the way of landing the fish as the leaves turn and the days grow shorter. .