Shy English Girl Makes Friends by Post

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 292, 10 December 1936, Page 11

Shy English Girl Makes Friends by Post

AUSTRALIAN CORRESPONDENTS. LONDON, Oct. 30. Shy twenty-two-year-old Elizabeth Whitney, of Hereford, found it difficult to make friends in the city where she lives as housekeeper to her father and three brothers. Y'oung men did not attract her and she had little in common with other girls of her ago. She wrote to an Australian newspaper telling of her loneliness and hoping to get into correspondence with lonely people there. “I am so lonely,” said her letter, “and I am sure there must be many people in Australia who, like myself, through their own shyness, lead very lonely lives. My hobbies are reading, writing, needlework and walking. lam fond of music, but not jazz. “I would like to write to anyone of either sex and any age. I am an English girl of twenty-two.” Already she has had two replies, one form a young farmer in Grenville, New South Wales, and another from an elderly couple in Bunvood, New South Wales. “Both letters were very sympathetic,” Miss Whitney said. She added that she was certainly not thinking of getting married. “That was tho last thing in my mind when I decided to write to Australia,” she said.