RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31295, 15 February 1967, Page 30

RANDOM REMINDER

100 MEN AND SOME GIRLS

In a few days, the Lonely Hearts Club of West Hartlepool, County Durham, will be assembling in Hyde Park for a rally designed to gather in a harvest of husbands. The founder of the club, Mrs Evelyn Harrison, said the 20 members of the club going to London would each spend £7 12s 6d each on travel and accommodation. It seems a pretty modest sort of outlay on running costs to snare someone who will put the butter on the bread for the rest of his days. This score of sirens has a practical knowledge of the odds. For the 20 women, there will be 100 men. The net ha> obviously

been spread wide, and the catch should be interestingly varied. The marriage market is nothing new, but there must be some speculation about the marketing methods to be employed. If this was to take place in New Zealand, there would be every reason to expect the 100 men to establish a tight group in one area to discuss racing and Rugby, while the ladies loitered in a line and waited with what patience they might muster. In England it may be different. Any woman capable of organising a sort of matrimonial march on London is not likely to allow man’s natural defence mechanism to work. But what will she do? Perhaps she will fall them all in

and match them off by sizes. There is to be a pop group in attendance to “lesson the tension” and perhaps she has in mind a rather dramatic version of the Paul Jones. A mild game of Russian roulette would be safer for the men. There must be some prospect of the rally ending in a shambles. The ages of the women at the rally vary from 24 to 55, and among them, no doubt, there will be one of particular attractions. The probability is that there will be a hundred men heaving and shoving each other to kiss her fingertips, while fighting breaks out among the other 19 girls. Some one will havs to dial 1010.