OLD MAN’S DARLING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21578, 25 February 1932, Page 16

OLD MAN’S DARLING

YOUNG GIRL’S SACRIFICE MARRIAGE TO SAVE SISTER. An old man whom she has never seen has responded to the offer of a girl of 17 to marry anyone who will put down £2OO to save her sister, aged nine. The money is needed to provide medical treatment without which the child is not expected to live more than 12 months. The girl who made this offer for her sister’s sake lives at Chorlton, Manchester. She has received a letter from an elderly widower who lives in the Horwich district. The widower says frankly: “I might tell you lam a little bit aged. I am a widower, and have been pensioned off for two years, so I am not exactly a young man, but I can get along all right.” After expressing his admiration of the girl’s courageous step, -the man adds that he would like to meet her, in the company of another woman, and he would like to see her family to discuss marriage.

The girl is not dismayed. “He must he a generous, genuine sort of man to write a letter like this,” she said. “It does seem a bit frightening, marriage with a man old enough, probably, to be my grandfather, but I do not mind any sacrifice if I can save my sister’s life. After all, there may be some compensatinons in being an old man’s darling.”