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THE

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1938.

Where the Best People Advertise

"View Mat"

Matrimonial Agency With Own Paper

Do you want to marry an earl, a Russian duke, or a Turkish sultan?

If so, you might do worse than consult the 78-year-old "Matrimonial Post," most dignified of marriage adverti- sers, which claims to be the only marriage negotiator for the nobility in the world.

This unique journal is issued monthly from an office in Charing Cross Road, London,

It consists of eight pages of closely set type and is devoted exclusively to notices "view mat."

The only other reading in the pa- per is a column or so of editorial boosts for the journat by the Editor.

The "Matrimonial Post" was first published in 1800.

HIS LIFE'S WORK

Mr. R. editor-proprietor, The Charlesworth, who must now be near- ly 100 years of age, said recently that his purpose was, and still is, "to sup- plement the ordinary mediums of marringe negotiations by a high-elais matrimonial agency."

With th's worthy rocial iden in view, Mr. Charlesworth (gossip has it that he a really a peer) established the Mairimonial Post" as the journal of his matrimonial agency.

chiefly. 1.100, under cover to the Editor.

From the sound of that advertise- ment he is likely to be one of the: 21/ requior advertisers who will search a long time for the perfect

WOHIO.

Tw's is an advertisement from the noblilty!

Baclicfor, created family, R.C., not bigoted, medium height and build, ace 31. fairish hair, nice appearance and position. £30 per annum, fond of garden, harne and outdoor life, de- s'res to meet a lady of birth and appearance, age up to 34. dress well, with similar fastes, and having good Bsc. 8.141. under Income for own cover to the Editor.

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scan it in the privacy of their dingy, rooms,

Further up the social scale, titled sp'nsters and gouty aristocrats anaMo it from the servants' quarters to peep

through its columns.

Many people buy this strange little puper for fun.

Mr. Charlesworth does not mind that

Ifia omce fan worked out that the "Let's have a laugh” mules of the "Post" are worth £40 a week, and ot that price it pays to be thought fanny.

LOVE 15 SERIOUS

But the joke is on the people who buy it for fun, because there is not

very much in the journal that will

raise a smile.

Here, in paragraphs of 50 worda, people of all ages, the young and the hopeful, the old and the despairing, are pleading for that most cherished of all life's gifts-the love of another human being,

Wise old Mr. Charlesworth knows

that these notices need no dressing- up.

People may buy his paper to laugh; but if they read it they are more fikely to weep.

"This paper is not published for a joke," wrote the Editor in a recent issue. "Every advertisement appear- ing therein is absolutely bona fide and inserted by the advertiser in all seriousness.

"Ladies and gentlemen who do not see advertisements in these columns annealing to them should remember These are the typical plans of that the Editor has always a large

number of clients who do not adver spinsters:

ise, but who trust the Agency to arrange matlers for them." ~

Among these clients, a large pro-

port.on is of the nobility.

Spinster, ace 21, height 5ft 4ins, Church of England, brown hair, me dium figure, Daughter of Professional Man, pleasant disposition, fond of mu He was aided by the rigid convic, danclug and sports, wishes to meet tions of the Victorian era, which made the natural meetings of young gentleman, are up to 45, preferably Ilving abroad, with tastes similar to people a most difficult business.

He amalgamated with rivals, and above, and with an income of not less people, and "all

to years of than £500 per annum. R.10. work bringing together lonely

then he settled down

cople.

Here are some sample advertise- ments from a recent issue:

Bachelor, age 40, healthy, aclive, and

presentable personality. University and Profess'onal education, English, fair laconie, seeks wife, not wearing glasses. slim, not noisy or talkative, kind, honourable and in telligent but not necessarily learned or accomplished, must have a young mind and if over 39 some income, ossentially a lady, and five in country

the marr age negotiator for the nobl

Not only is the "Matrimonial Post"

commercial lity: It caters for

There is only one type of person who may not adverlise: "No one un- Spinster, aged 29, Daughter of a der the age of 21 is accepted as a client, unless with the written con- well-known Literary Man, auburn cent of a parent or guardian."

and hale, slim gure, demrat'ented

This may seem a bit hard on the companionable, would like to meet a cultured man, in the thirties or early young and the ardent, or it may ap

piece of quixotic idealism forties, intercaled in books and good pear to be musle, and with a sense of humour. on the past of the paper.

But Mr. Charlesworth is a psycho- C.463.

To-day

the "Matrimonial Post" logist. He knows that young love is offers a gleam of hope to people I'v-confident love; that the people most in the "Mairt- ing alone, and to women who have likely to advertise

monial Post" will be people over 30. nothing to look forward to,

He is right, as his columns prove. For five shillings you can advertise

Servant girla read it avidly every month; business girls and office clerks

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The names and addresses of adver- there are given only to what he terms

Dr. Geoffrey Evans, "eligible clients."

Anyone wishing to answer an ad- specialist, is travelling by plane 100170 vertisement must first become a client | Bombay on his way to the bedside and pay a registration fee.

of the 76-year-old Muharajah Gack- It a match results there is another

9264 fee, so altogether the "Matrimonial war of Baroda, who is seriously ill Post" must be quite a paying little at his capital. Dr. Evans is consult-0316 business.

During its 78 years of work iting physician to St. Bartholomew's estimates to have negotiated 50,000 Hospital and an authority on kidney happy marriages, angi therefore, to disease. The Makarajal succceded: be godfather to roughly 650,000 hap- to the throne of Baroda in 1875, two py children and grandchildren of these successful ventures in inntri-years before Queen Victorin

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It has published an average of 5,000 Delhi Durbar, which be attended. inquiries a year which, zoned to pri- He has relgued longer than any vate inquiries not appearing in the other

The ruler except 'Rameses paper, makes a grand total of nearly Great. Louis the Fourteenth, Francis half a million match-making attempts Joseph and Queen Victoria. since the journal was estabilshed.

POLICE RACED TO SEA AFTER MISSING SLOOP

-Court Story

A story which counsel described as "rather like the first chapter of an adventure of the sea," was told at Poole (Dorset) Police Court recently.

Two men who were alleged to have said that they wanted to get away from the country were the chief characters.

Both hotel employees, Arthur Squires, 30, and Frederick Arnold Drury, 30, of Bournemouth, were charged with breaking into a sailing club at Poole, stealing sailing equipment valued £7 8s. 6d., stealing the auxiliary sloop Susan, valued £550, stea ling a sailing dinghy, and stealing articles from the yacht Sandra.

Mr. A. Templeman, prosecut- ing, said that on Saturday, October 22, after buying provi- sions and filling jars with water, the men broke into the sailing club and, taking the dinghy, rowed to the yacht Sandra, in which they loaded the goods.

TIDE TOO STRONG

WIDOW AT 18-DIDN'T KNOW IT

An 10-year-old bride, widowed two days after her wedding, did not know of her husband's death until

They towed the yacht down har recently. bour, but it went on the mud and,

release it, This was revealed at the resumed as they were unable to they transferred the goods to the inquest at Leicester on Stanley dinghy and tried to row up harbour. Cufflin, aged 23, an electrle light in- spectar. He was motor-cycling, with The strong tide took them out, to his bride on the pillion, when his sea, however, and the following machine was involved in a collision morning they put into Studland Bay with a car on October 10. He died Fand bid the goods in the sand dunes. shortly after the accident.

Returning to Poole by bus, they went into a shipyard that evening and boarded the Susan.

Falling to start her engine, they cut her loose and drifted out into the harbour.

Twice

The coroner (Mr. E. G. B. Fowler) said that Mrs. Cufflin received a frac tured skull, but had made a wonder- ful recovery.

When he said that it would be very distressing for Mrs. Cupfflin to give evidence as she was unaware that her husband

coroner's was dead, the

they went aground, but eventually, after a trip lasting ofcer Informed him that she had night and a day, they arrived at been told earlier in the day. Studland Bay.

They put the goods in the sund dunes aboard the Susan, tied the dinghy astern, and anchored for the night.

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Garratt Leofrie Nowell, a technical At Christmas Time

instructor, of Coventry, driver of the car Involved, said that he was not using the car for business purposes at the time of the accident.

The coroner: Then you were not They intended to sall in the morn-insured?-No. Ing, but before they could do so, The foreman of the jury and that police arrived in a motor-boat and Nowell admitted travelling at 50 m.p.h. arrested them.

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to police evidence, Ughtly. "You don't realise the Drury sold they had arranged for seriousness of your position." he said some time to take a yacht und get to. Nowell. Nowell replied that ho away from the country.

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When they were taking the Susan The foreman, returning a verdict

· down harbour, she twice went on the of "Accidental Death, saldi mud

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