Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1909 — “Hope Boxes” Secure Husbands For Girls at Bloomington. [ARTICLE]

“Hope Boxes” Secure Husbands For Girls at Bloomington.

The Bloomington correspondent of the Indianapolis Star is authority for the statement that the “hope box” is the latest fad among the pretty girls of marriageable age in that city. According to the correspondent this is the way the scheme is worked: The girls secure a dainty little box and place therein from' day to day some article of wearing apparel, such as lingerie, gloves, handkerchiefs, hosiery, veils, or slippers. As each article Is deposited, the girl, sighing softly, “hopes” that within a year “he” pops the question, and her fondest dreams be realized. Two girls started “hope boxes” a few months ago, and early this week they received proposals of marriage. One of them, it is said, accepted immediately, and the other promised an answer by next Sunday. Another society girl started a “hope box” and before she got it half filled received a letter from a young man matrimonially inclined. As a consequence her girl friends are all in a flutter of excitement over the pretty romance.