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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

FRIDAY, DECEMBER

1988.

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 de 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 Cruz Road, London.

chiefly. 1.100, under cover to the Editor.

From the round of that advertise-

It consists of eight pages of closely ment he is kely to be one of the

notices "view mat."

scan it in the privacy of their dingy rooms.

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

through its columns,

Many people buy this strange little paper for fun.

Mr. Charlesworth does not mind that.

Its office has worked it out that the "Let's have a laugh" sales of the "Post" are worth £50 a week, and at that price it pays to be thought fany,

LOVE IS SERIOUS

buy it for fun, because there is not very much in the journal that will

But the joke is on the people who

rale a amilc.

Here, in paragraphs of 50 words, people of all ages, the young and the are pleading for that most cherished hopeful, the old and the despairing.

of all life's gifts-the love of another human being.

Wise old Mr. Charlesworth knows

set type and is devoted exclusively to 21 regular. advertisers who will that these Butlees need no dressing- search a long time for the perfect

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

The "Matrimonial Post" was Drst published In 1000.

HIS LIFE'S WORK

The editor-proprietor, Mr. B. 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 marriage negotiations by a high-class matrimonial agency."

With this worthy rocial len in view, Mr. Charlesworth (gossip hus it that he is really a peer) established the Matrimontal Post" as the journal of his matrimonial agency,

He was aided by the rigid conven- which tlons of the Victorian era, made the natural meetings of young people a most dimeult business.

He amalgamated with rivals, and then he settled down to yours steady work bringing together, lonely people.

of

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

Bachelor, age 40, healthy, active,† and SITI presentable personality. University and Professional education, English, fair Income, seeks wife, not] wearing glanses, klim, not noisy or talkative, kind, honourable and In- telligent but not necessarily learned or accomplished, must have a young mind and if over 30 some income, essentially a lady, and live in country

;

woman.

up.

but if they read it they are miore People may buy his paper to laugh;

likely to weep.

This is an advertisement from the nobility:

Bachelor, gresied family, R.C., not bigoted, medium helght and bulld see 31, fairish hair, nier appearance and position, £30 per annum, fond of garden, home and outdoor life, de- s'res to meet a lady of birth and appearance, age up to 34. dress well, seriousness. with similar tastes, and having good income for own tise. 5.141, under cover to the Editor.

These are spinsters:

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

"Ladies and gentlemen who do not sce advertisements in there coluinn!! annealing to them should remember the typical pleas of that the Editor has always a large

number of clients who do not adver lise, but who trust the Agency to arrange matters for them,"

Among these clients, n large pro- port.on is of the nobility.

Not only is the "Matrimonial Post"

1.40.

Mr. Lyle Talbot points to the window through which her screen-actor husband dragged Franklin D. Parker, another actor, after are started in their Beverley Hills, Cni, home, where both men were asleep. With pajamas aflame both dropped to the ground, but both were severely burned. Talbot's burns were not expected to hall his career.

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Spinster, age 21. height 54, 4ins.

The names and addresses of adver- Church of England, brown hale, me- dium fleure, Daughter of Professional

tizers are given only to what he terms "eligible clients." Mau, pleasant disposition, fond of pin- sic, dancing and sports, wishes to meet the marr are negotiator for the nubi-vertisement must first become a client Bombay on his way to the bedside

Anyone wishing to answer an ad-specialist, is travelling by 'plane to 9179 Ilving abroad, with tastes similar to lity; it caters for gentry, commercial and pay a registration fee, a gentleman, age up to 45, preferably above, and with an income of not less peuple, and "ull classes."

(of the 70-year-old Maharajah Gack- It a match results there is another There is only one type of person than £500 per annum

9204 who may advertise: "No one un-

fee, so altogether the "Matrimonial war of Baroda, who is seriously Ill Spinster, ared 29. Daughter of der the age of 21 is accepted as a

Post" must be quite a paying little at his capital. Dr. Evan is consult- well-known Literary Man, auburn ellent, unless with the written con-

business. hair, slim Ögure, domest'cated and sent of a parent or guardian,"

During its 78 years of work it ing physician to St. Bartholomew's: companionable, would like to meet a This may seem a bit hard on the estimates to have negotiated 50,000 Hospital and an authority on kidney cultured man, the thirties or early young and the ardent, or it may ap-

happy marriages, and therefore to disease. The Maharajah succeeded forties, Interested in books and good pear to be a pices of quixotic idealism

be godfather to roughly 650,000 hap to the throne of Baroda in 1875, two music, and with a sense of humour. on the part of the paper.

by children and grandchildren of. C.463.

But Mr. Charlesworth is a psycho-

these successful ventures in matri-years before Queen Victoria was To-day the "Matrimonini Post" logist.

mony. He knows that young love is

proclaimed Empress of India at the offers a gleam of hope to prople I'v-evident love, that the people most It has published an average of 5,000 Delhi Durbar, which he attended. ing alone, and to women who have likely to advertise in the "Matri- inquiries a year which, saged to pri- He has reigned longer than nothing to look forward to.

monial Post" will be people over 30. e inquiries not appearing in the other ruler except Servant girls read it avidly every

He is right, as his columns prove. paper, makes a Brand total of nearly Great, Louis the Fourteenth, Francis Rameses the month; business girls and office clerks | For flve shillings you can advertise half a million match-making attempts Joseph and Queen Victoria.

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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 salling 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.

WIDOW AT 18-DIDN'T KNOW IT

An 18-year-old bride, widowed TIDE TOO STRONG

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,

as they were unable to release it, This was revealed at the resumed they transferred the goods to the Inquest at Leicester on Stanley dinghy and tried to row up harbour. Cumin, aged 23, an electrle light in- The strong tide took them out to his bride on the pillion, when his spector. He was motor-cycling, with 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 and hid the goods in the sand dunes.shortly after the accident.

Returning to Poole by bus, they went into a shipyard that evening said that Mrs. Cuillin received a frac The coroner (Mr. E. G. B. Fowler) und bourded the Susan.

tured skull, but had made a wonder- Failing to start her engine, they ful recovery, cut her loose and drifted out into

the harbour.

When he said that it would be very distressing for Mrs. Cupflin to give. Twice they went aground, but evidence as she was unaware that her

husband was dead, the eventually, after a trip lasting afleer Informed him that she had night and a day; they arrived at been told earlier in the day. Studland Bay.

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They put the goods in the sand dunes aboard the Susan, tied the dinghy nstern, and anchored for the | night,

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Gorratt Leotrie 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.

They intended to sail in the morninsured? No.

The coroner: Then you were not ing, but before they could do so, police arrived in a motor-boat and Nowell admitted travelling of 50 m.p.b. The foreman of the jury said that arrested them.

but seemed to According

treat this very ovidence, lightly. Drury said they had arranged for seriousness of your position," he said: "You don't realiso. the some time to take a yacht and get to Nowell. Nowell replied that he away from the country.

did. When they were taking the Susari down harbour, she twice went on the of Accidental Death, said:

The foreman, returning a verdict ! mud flats. A fishing boat pulled

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