WANTED TO MARRY MR BALFOUR.

Evening Star, Issue 12768, 22 March 1906, Page 1

WANTED TO MARRY MR BALFOUR.

_ ln an amusing article in the ‘Monthly ReTiew _on ‘ The Fascination of Parliament,* Mr MacDonagh recounts a number ef the. trials which M.P.S, have to put up at : tho hands of their conriatuents and of the outside public. In the course .of it ho asks us to pity- the poor M.P. who receives such a letter as the following:— Honored Sir, — I hear that Mr Balfour is not a married man. Something tells me that I would make the right sort of wife for him. lam coming to London to-morrow, and will call at the House of Commons to see you, hoping you will get me an introduction to the honorable gentleman. I am only thirty years of age, and can do cooking and washing. . Agnes Merton. R-S.—Porbaps if Mr Balfour would not have mo you vyould say a word for mo tc : one of the policemen at-the House. * Mr MacDonagh assures us that during the evening the member who received this strange epistle went cautiously into the Central Hall, And, sure enough, espied an eccen-tric-looking woman, in angry controversy with, a constable, who was trying to induce her to go away; but she refused to leave, and ultimately found’ a sympathetic companion in the crazy old lady who has haunted the place for years in the hope that some day she will induce the Government .to restore the £5,000.000 of which she declares they have robbed her.