A CARD THAT FOUND A WIFE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 23 December 1922, Page 7

A CARD THAT FOUND A WIFE

A remarkable accident brought happiness some years ago to one of our bestknown barristers, who will almost certainly wear the ermine of a Judge before Jong. One day, so lie tells the story, when he was vainly waiting for the briefs (hat refused to come, in his chambers in King’s Bench Walk, ho received a newspaper from a friend in Melbourne, and was surprised to see an envelope caught in its folds, which had been overlooked by the postman. As the envelope was unsealed, curiositv impelled him to open it, and he drew out a gilt-edged card, bearing the photograph of a beautiful girl, with the best Christmas wishes from Lenore.” So struck was lie by the sweetness of the pictured face that lie decided, instead of veposiling the card, to take it back (o its owner —whoso Address as given on the card was, curiously enough, quite dose to In's own bachelor rooms in the West of London.

On calling at the young lady’s house, he, found, not at all to his surprise, that she was as charming as her face was lovely. And to what, good use ho was able to turn (his introduction was prov-

ed, in the following summer, when the wedding bells were set a-ringing for liis wedding to the lady of the Christmas card.