. A Storm m a tea-cup has been raised in Now York (writes Miss Zara Douglas, a Sydney singer who visited America in 1915, to her friends) by one of the local papers advising young Frenchwomen to marry members of the American forces in France. Letters for or against the sug- . gestion have flooded the press. The old' maids wished to -start a league for tho protection of American sweethearts. The, \ cry thought of the wonderful chances in the American matrimonial market ■ for Frenoh girls has touched the American women* who believe that every soldier who leaves an American port will fly at once into the arms of a French admirer. One spinster, who evidently thought she had lost her last chance, wanted the President to pass a regulation, forbidding soldiers to '• marry!
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 17499, 16 December 1918, Page 6
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132Page 6 Advertisements Column 7 Otago Daily Times, Issue 17499, 16 December 1918, Page 6
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