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Sure To Get Married

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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There is in the mail división of tïie treasury department a very populr desk, to which Is attached the peculiar merit that the occupant is by that oecupancy placed on the sure road to matrimony, says the Washington Post. No sooner is the position made vacant than there is a scramble among the remaining clerks for the lucky place, the fortúnate candidate feeling sure that tt will only be a short time befors she is advanced to the Hymeneal grade. Within the past ten years the desk has been occupied by seven lady clerks follov.ing each other in quick succession as embryo brides, and the records during that time indícate that they have come from all parts of the country only to finally meet their destiny while occupying the fateful desk. Miss Birdie Walker of Tennessee started the pace by marrying a residsnt of the district, after a few months' service. She was succeeded by her sister, from the same state, who speedily followed her example and left the enviable position open to a new-comer. She arrived on pchedule time from Virginia in the person of Miss Easby-Smith, who shed the glory of a famous Virginian name over the talismanic desk for a short time and then was led to the altar by a Journalist of Washington. Next carne from Delaware a relative of Senator Gray- Miss Sue Gray- who was followed in an incredibly short time by a defegate from Massachusetts- Miss Mercine Dickey. Miss Dickey attracted much attention during her stay in the department through herremarkable reBemblance to Mrs. Cleveland, and later married Mr. Simon Flynn, who at that time was connected with the Washington branch of the Baltimore Sun, and now manages a paper in Spokane, Wash. Pennsylvania also ftirnishes a representativa in Miss Ella Newton, a granddaughter of the first commisaioner of agriculture. Her marriage to a well-known resident of this city is a recent event. The last gradúate from this sought-for post is another southern girl, and was formerly Miss Ida say oí Alabama, but on Easter Monda she became the wife of Dr. Henry E Fry of Washington, and the place i temporarily unoccupied. Thia happy illustration of rotation in office as ex emplified by the feminine contingsn of wage-earners, is the only one on rec ord where nobody "kicks," for each woman thinks sbs is advancing her In terests either by fllling the position or leaving it, as the case may be.

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Ann Arbor Register