ADAM’S APPLE WINS EVE

Evening Star, Issue 20555, 6 August 1930, Page 12

ADAM’S APPLE WINS EVE

HIS EDEN IK THE BACK OF BEYOND A demand for a wife, written on the tissue paper round an apple, has led to a remarkable romance, as the result of which a young Plymouth girl is to journey to New Zealand to marry a man she has never seen (states the ‘ Sunday Chronicle’). Sho is Miss Gladys Sprigge, a twenty-two-year-old shop assistant, who lives with her parents and acts as cashier and saleswoman at a little village general store a few miles from here. Three months ago Miss Sprigge was unpacking a consignment of apples from New Zealand when sho saw on the wrapper of one a message in ink YES ” BY MAIL. “ To guy pretty girl who reads this,” it ran; "“The writer, Mj James Kenyon, bachelor, aged thirty-four, is in search of a wife who will not mind living on the outskirts of civilisation and roughing it. “She must not be over twenty-five, and must be domesticated and able to cook and sew. Good looks are not essential, but are certainly a recommendation. Photographs exchanged and further particulars on request.” More as a joke than anything else Miss Sprigge, so she told me to-day, wrote to Mr Kenyon telling him that she had found his letter and enclosing her photograph. Back by the nest mail from abroad came a letter from Mr Kenyon enclosing his photograph and the passage'money for the voyage out. “If you decide not to .come,” he wrote, you can give the money to some deserving charity.” “He must bo kind-hearted and generous to do a thing like that, and so I have decided to marry him,” Miss Sprigge said. “ I wrote him yesterday telling him that I would be sailing next month.”