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The St. Paul Daily Globe, June 12, 1887, p. 10

BLOOMING BACHELOR BUDS

Minneapolis Overflowing With Young Men With All the Attributes of Good Husbands.

Buxom Bachelors Who Well Might Make Lovely Women Happy for Life.

"Our Homeless Young Men," Some of Whom Are Only Awaiting Their Affinities.

A Chance for the Girls --- Eligible Young Men Whom the Globe Can Recommend.

YE BUDS of promise! Minneapolis is full of 'em. There is more marriagable talent in the young man line lying about in Minneapolis than in any city of its class in America. The number of eligible young men is greater in proportion to the population than any other developed Western city, and "our homeless young man" has frequently been the theme of the GLOBE's touching solicitude. Well-to-do dowagers have little trouble in selecting suitable parties and the work of the match-making mamma becomes a perfect sinecure. Handsome bachelors! Why, the Lurline Club alone is full of them, and the ranks of the Nicollet club will be equal to the demand for years to come. The former have the advantage, for as a rule they are muscular, well developed dudes, and walk with stalwart mien into the affections of the ladies. The Union League and Algonquin clubs could furnish forth a surprising array of victim's eligible to Hymen's sacrifices -- men, not boys, who are prepared to start an "establishment" and [install] a lady at its head. These are worthy of the contest, for ladies love, above all things, to conquer the heart that for thirty years has resisted the onslaught of cupid, though they are not averse to occupying the first seat in the tender affections of adolescent love. It is one thing to walk rough-shod over the susceptible heart beneath the incipient mustache of a boy and another to carry by storm the prosaic fancy of a man of the world, and the ladies know it.

AN ESTABLISHMENT IN MINNEAPOLIS is quite a desideratum, but it is not all. The husband who can afford a mansion on Park avenue, a cottage at Minnetonka and a coach and four may be the most desirable from one point of view, but all girls are not alike, and many such are thrown overboard for the handsome good-for-nothing, with only his salary and his winning ways, but whose Claude Melnotte pictures of fancy outshines all of the substantial actualities of the solid man. It is true, as has been said, that women are like moths, and are fond of fluttering about a brilliant light, but it is noticed that once their wings are singed, they continue to flutter about the object of their affections. Society people know that many is the young man of Minneapolis, with nothing but his own courage and address, backed perhaps by good looks and certain other lover-like qualities, who has made the most brilliant match and ever afterward lived in the traditional joy and peace. But the bachelors of Minneapolis are particularly eligible, because they are a jolly, good-natured set. They know more of the cynacism so commonly associated with the life that has lived to [reach] thirty years in a state of single blessedness. They enjoy life so thoroughly, that if they have thus far failed to associate a parter in their joys, it is because they prefer to bear the pleasures that they have than to fly to others that they know not of.

GETTING DOWN TO PERSONALITIES, and solely in the interest of the ladies, whose chosen paper the GLOBE is, some of the eligible bachelors are pointed out, and to each name the GLOBE attaches a guarantee, upon which the ladies may rely with implicit confidence.

There is L. M. Stewart, calculated to make any woman happy during his life and afterward. It is true he has passed that period of existence when the state of his feelings may be accurately told by the colors of his neckgear, as he does not think the one object of his life is to wear good clothes; but he is in the full vigor of manhood and is wealthy. Under the gentle persuasion of a wife he would probably erect on his magnificent homestead site, a palace that would be one of the attractions of the city and keep a whole barn full of horses and carriages, with livery, crest and 'scutcheon complete.

W. B. Wheeler, of the Omaha road, is a man calculated to make any woman happy. He is emphatically domestic in his tastes and just the man to delight in a family circle about the evening fire, with smoking jacket, slippers and little toddlers all complete. Nothing but his capricious fancy has thus long kept him single, for his ideal is very high, indeed. Young, handsome and rich, he has long been the object of the envious glance of many a managerial mamma.

Col. Sam Hill, the young attorney and capitalist, is a very eligible husband and has kept many a fair girl on the tip-toe of expectancy while he softly syllabled ball room nothings in her ear, but he never came to the point and has still to arrange his own laundering. He is a manly young man and has all of the attributes with which young ladyhood adorn the ideal husband. Comely in person, refined in taste, cultured in mind and polished by travel, it is a marvel why he has reached thirty in bachelor loneliness.

Abbott Blunt, the Adonis of the Tribune, is still single only because he has not had the courage to take the leap. Seven times he has stood on the precipice and prepared for the plunge, but he is so modest and retiring that each time he pulled back. That he is still a forlorn bachelor is his own fault entirely, for he is one of the kind the girls are just dying for, and hundreds of the dear creatures have looked love unutterable into his soft Andalusian eyes. Not only the handsomest of the newspaper fraternity, but he is also the best natured and most patient. He will probably wait until at last he is himself wooed and won in leap year.

Attorney Jim Sherer -- why had he never taken advantage of his opportunities? He can quote Shakespeare -- oh! so sweetly -- and always selects lines in praise of a heroine. This shows that he revels in an esthetic love of connubial domesticity, and the wonder is that he has not found a partner [to] share it.

Ralph Wheland, of Temple Court, has traveled and knows the world. Happy the girl who could make complete conquest of that battle-worn and love-scarred heart. Ladies love to watch him skate, and "Wheland days" and "lady days" at the Central park have become synonymous. He has thus far remained single because of a haunting fear that he is loved not for himself alone.

Clarence Child, the young attorney, has those melting brown eyes that look their way right into a lady's affections, besides a good figure and fashionable clothes. The avenue pronounces him in every way eligible.

Lac Stafford has thus far successfully eluded the designing girls who have ascertained the strength of his bank account, and is still in the ring. It is his avowed intention to remain single until he is twenty-eight, and as will power is his characteristic, he will probably do it, unless some girl abducts and carries him off to a Gretna Green.

F. C. Nickel, the young real estate prince, is still single and heart-free. He is one of the handsomest men in the city and has a good business. He has a taste for music, art, literature and would make any woman happy.

Howard Commons, secretary of the Lurline Boat club, is a favorite young bachelor, and good looking enough to please the most fastidious young girl.

Hal and Lou Watson, Al Pray, W. S. Ankeny and C. A. Williams are a quintette of Lurline young men, all free of entangling alliances and all good catches.

Roger Vall is of marriage age and domestic habits and would make a devoted husband. He saves his money and does not squander his time.

J. V. McHugh might enter the competitive list with anybody. He is an attorney in successful practice, can speak four languages, has a decided taste for theatricals and is essentially good looking.

E. A. O'Brien is a confirmed misanthrope, but greater would be the glory of winning his proud heart. His aristocratic tastes and English air and manner would make him a very popular husband.

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