WORLD'S PRETTIEST GIRL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14984, 4 May 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

WORLD'S PRETTIEST GIRL.

MR. CARNEGIE'S DISCOVERY. 'Mb. Caknboie's announcement that he had found til® " prettiest girl in the world," Miss Virginia Lee, aged 20 a stenographer employed in a Pittsburg engineering office, has been hotly challenged by rival candidates from all parte of the country, and has .also started a lively newspaper discussion regarding the essential requisites of feminine beauty. Mr. Carnegie is now at Hot Springs, Arkansas, Lately, while chatting with a newspaper representative, he exclaimed: "By the way, I have found the prettiest girl in the world. Here is her photograph. Do yon know, Virginia Lee would make a good wife for some moo. young man. . Are you married, Mr. Reporter?" he asked. "If I were not a Benedict' inyself," said the laird, "I would board the firtt train to Pittsburg." 1

Tho steel master obtained Mi® Lee's photograph from, her father at Hot Springs. Mr. Lee mot Mr. Carnegie at Hot Springs.' He thanked the laird for the excellent opportunity which the Margaret Morrison Technical Schools had offered his daughter, in the way of educa-. lion. - It was then that Mr. Carnegie asked Mr. Lee for his daughter's picture and got it. •; * V,.

Mr. Carnegie's verdict seems to he largely justified by the publication of the girl's photograph. She has a wonderful wealth of . brown hair, perfect features of the classic beauty type, and eyes like violets of the deepest blue. Incidentally,Mr. Carnegie's prettiest gill finds herself rather embarrassed by interviewers, not to speak of offers of marriage by post. . "The riaea of being the prettiest girl in the •world," says Miss Virginia Lee, "is • just too, good to be true. I never dreamed I would' be picked out for an honour of this kind, and it is really very embarrassing. I don't even know Mr. Carnegie, except by name, and portraits are sometimes flattering." Tho post has brought thirty-eis offers of marriage, likewise various tempting overtures from the proprietors of theatres and music-halls. All have been rejected.