Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1895 — Amusing Advertisements. [ARTICLE]

Amusing Advertisements.

Matrimonial advertisements, according to a contemporary correspondent at Vienna, are marked by an acceptable humorous audacity. Here, for instance, is one that ran for six or seven days: “Wanted—a rich lady—no matter how old—who will finance a student of medicine until such time as he obtains his degree, when ne engages tomarryhrsbenefactress.” Another is quoted wherein a young prince seeks a handsome girl with a dowry of not less than one million dollars. When the desired mate is obtained, all one’s needs are apparently satisfied, judging from this advertisement for a purchaser for a “well-trained monkey, a talkative parrot, and a beautiful, sympathetic cat,” which belong to a lady who, owing to her approaching marriage, has no further use for them. The most amusing of the advertisements quoted by our contemporary is, however, that of the v; ry Irish peruquier who makes wigs for “men of intellect, philosophers/ scholars and phy--slcians—whose severe mental labor In the cause of humanity has jfilled"their brains with genial ideas, while depriving their heads of their natural capillary envelopes.” These ‘'artistically finished" wigs,” the advertiser continues, “while extremely useful are highly ornamental, and are guaranteed absolutely invisible to the spectator. They can be seen any day in my private show rooms.”