A middle-aged lady, object sociability (1905)

Personal1905

MIDDLE-AGED lady would like to meet congenial gentleman; object sociability. Mable Dodge, General Delivery, City.

New Haven Union, January 10, 1905, p. 11. View the original page at the Library of Congress

In plain English

A middle-aged woman would like to meet a pleasant man for friendship and company. Write to her by name at the post office.

Who wrote it, and to whom

Newspaper	New Haven Union, New Haven, Connecticut
Date	January 10, 1905, page 11
Written by	A middle-aged woman
Addressed to	Men, for companionship
Where	Replies to General Delivery, New Haven

Context

Object sociability is a deliberate twist on the standard object matrimony: she states her purpose in the familiar form and changes the one word that matters. Most writers hid behind initials or a box number; she gave her name.

In the Personals Dictionary

Object matrimony General delivery

Tagged

friendship written by women

How to cite this ad

“A middle-aged lady, object sociability.” Personal advertisement, New Haven Union (New Haven, Connecticut), January 10, 1905, p. 11. Transcribed in The Personals Archive, AseeksB, https://www.aseeksb.com/archive/1905-new-haven-union-object-sociability.html.

Public domain in the United States: published before 1931.

Transcribed from the page image and checked against the original; spelling and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined. The trailing printer's code at the end of the ad is omitted. Capital letters are also as printed: papers set the first line of each ad in capitals, so the capitals stop wherever that line ended, sometimes in the middle of a word.

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