ROMANCE OF REAL LIFE
KNITTING GIRL’S GOOD FORTUNE. BY CABLE— PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT BERLIN, March 6. A pretty little romance of real life is given prominence in the evening papers. A poor working girl stood at a knitting machine at Leipzig.. Her fair but lifeless expression revealed the hopeless drudgery of her daily life. A crowd of visitors stopped, and soon her machine was 1 the centure of King Amanullah’s insatiable thirst for knowledge. Through an interpreter the King of Afghanistan asked for a demonstration, to which request the girl accurately and adroitly but. mechanically responded, unaware that the familiar movements were to have a far-reaching influence on her destiny. _ The King asked questions, which she answered in a perfunctory manner, not attempting to thrust her personality into the matter. Thereupon the King ordered 150 knitting machines, adding: “But that girl must come to teach my people how to use them.” The deal was sealed on the spot, the girl bursting into tears of joy.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 8 March 1928, Page 5
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