A SMART CAMPAIGN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 3327, 30 November 1883, Page 3

A SMART CAMPAIGN.

A Paris journal records a very clever bit of matchmaking executed in brilliant style last winter by a wellhnown New York woman. Her eldest daughter, it seems, bad sailed from New York with some friends for a tour in Europe, and after “ doing” the Continent, had returned to the French capital for several months of rest and pleasuring. Attractive and clever, she had many suitors, some more, some less desirable. She could not marry them all, so she adroitly reduced the number to two —the best of the lot of course. Then she wrote home to her mother explaining the situation of affairs, adding that they were both so handsome, agreeable, well connected, and rich that she could not decide between them, and closed with the question “ What shall I do?” Ten days later she received a cable despatch from her mother : “ I sail to-morrow ; hold both until I come” The next Transatlantic steamer brought Mrs Blank with her second daughter just turned eighteen and fresh from school. On her arrival the old lady at once took the helm of affairs and steered so deftly through the dangerous waters that in a few weeks she reached port with all colours flying. To drop metaphor, she attended the wedding of her two daughters at the American Chapel on the same morning. After due examination she deeided that neither of the nice fellows should go out of the family.