THE PERFECT SUITOR
PROBLEM FOR OXFORD’S MAYOR. When a man in Mexico wanted a wife, he wrote to tho Mayor of Oxford,' Aiderman Miss Lily. S. Tawney, j who revealed the contents oi: the letter to the Oxford Rotary Club;recent-1 ly, v>hcn she reviewed her year of| office. j “He was very particular,’.’ she said,' “that tho lady should be white, and I had a strong suspicion that he him- i self was not. So keen was he, that 11 suspected he must have a coffeecoloured complexion. ; Apparently, too, he was a perfect paragon. ■ lie did not smoke, he was perfectly; virtuous, and ho had- a good income. i “He wanted his? wife to be white, English, .Church-of - England for pre-j ferehcc, most beautiful, well-educated * up to a certain standard, and to have a pedigree going • back at- least two hundred, years. , . . “1 got. a friend to draft a reply,which politely suggested that as he was so. perfect,we. were afraid no lady could he found to equal him.’’’
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 December 1934, Page 9
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168THE PERFECT SUITOR Greymouth Evening Star, 18 December 1934, Page 9
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