- Louis Conroy thought when he inherited his father's comfortable fortune and took a little apartment of his own, that he had everything he could desire. But he was soon disillusioned, and found that he needed a wife to complete his happiness. Louis was a man of action, and the idea no sooner occurred to him, than he had written and taken to the local newspaper for insertion an ad, stating that applicants for the position of wife to a handsome, rich young man should apply the following day. True, on his way home it caused him to ponder when he saw a family of six boys, but they passed on their way quickly. Next day Jerome Avenue was astir. All sorts and kinds of women were making for the Conroy apartment. Louis got a glimpse of them from the window, that was enough for him, and after a moment's thought, he discovered a way to get rid of the surging mass of applicants. He burnt some cork and colored his hands and face. Entering his parlor, he asked for the first to be shown in. She did not at first see his face, but when she did, what an uproar there was. She rushed out and told the mob waiting outside that it was a colored man that had advertised; and the way they left that house would have done credit to a rat pursued by a terrier. One colored woman remained, however, and she was now shown in and was delighted to find his visage to be jet black. Falling on him and kissing him, she noticed that white appeared where she kissed him, and his trickery being thus exposed she left after administering a few blows of no gentle character. Mary, the maid, ascertaining that he had been unable to select a wife, came to the conclusion that it was up to her, so, disguising herself in a cloak and heavy veil, she entered the parlor. Louis was at once attracted by her pretty figure, and when she fetched his pipe and lit a match for him, he came to the conclusion that he had obtained the right girl. When he discovered who she was, it did not alter his opinion, and he gave her the ring he had purchased in anticipation of getting engaged to someone that day.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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