LOVER’S PROPOSAL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3894, 26 April 1937, Page 2

LOVER’S PROPOSAL

£2OO FOR A REPLY. DETERMINED MUSIC-HALL ARTIST. In olden days when a man proposed marriage to a girl he waited on bended knee until she whispered either “Yes” or “No.” But times have changed. Recently on the radio from New York Florence Hurlbut, of Excelsioi Springs, Missouri, gave her answer to a proposal of marriage by Harold Hulen, known as “ the sit-down strike lover.” She received £2OO, with all expenses paid, for doing so; and Hulen, a music ball artist, received’ a great deal of valuable publicity—free. Hulen called the nation’s attention

to his romance by chaining himself to a radiator in the house where Miss Hurlbut lived. He had then, he said, proposed marriage to her a hundred times, and planned to stay where he was until she said “ Yes.” She left home during the night, and went to her uncle’s home a mile away. Hulen pursued her, still carrying his chains. While he languished outside the uncle’s apaitment, again chained to a radiator, Miss Hurlbut left by a window and motored to Kansas City, where she caught an aeroplane to New York. Wlhen she arrived at Newark (New Jersey) airport she revealed that she had accepted an offer to go on the radio the next night. “All I have to j do is to give my decision on Mr | Hulen’s proposal,” she said. Her ansi wer was “Yes.”