FERVID AUSTRALIANS
LETTERS TO A LADY
.[Over eighty men in New South "Wales h^ve written to offer their friendship (faults and qualities thrown in),' to a, £ fair young London lady whoso appeal for a correspondent ia Australia appeared in the, "Daily Pictorial" recently. The gentleman through whom i*je fruwespondenee is passing has openc3 ; and . examined the letters, on . ac«onnt of certain people who delight in rideness. But from the genuine, soulful cries go up: > "Prompted by an impulse which I cannot control, f and impelled onward Ijy a passion which overwhelms every other consideration," writes one, "I have dared to address you' with the hope, faint, yet deathless, that Fortune, which sometimes seconds a i desperate idsqlve, may thus favour me." One good-looking suitor tells of "that aixiininable complaint, loneliness. We might find consolation through our coradspondence. I have turned twenty• oim," he &jys, after giving the news that ho manages his father's 10,000----acire station. One letter tells a story of the "blues," and of soul-stirrings when "the bush all is still and quiet, with only the calls of night birds and animals." After 1500 words the patient says: "This letter is to break the ice. I'm cranky on automobiles." Another can handle a plough better than a pen, although ho is interested in art. ("On second thoughts am including sketch of a dog"). His nobility is attested by ten medals and some cups for life-saving!.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 29 May 1930, Page 20
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236FERVID AUSTRALIANS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 125, 29 May 1930, Page 20
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