“PROPOSALS” TO PRINCE

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1924, Page 9

“PROPOSALS” TO PRINCE

HUNDRED LEAP-YEAR OFFERS AMERICAN GIRDS’ LETTERS. NEWSPAPER COMPETITION. Prior to the departure of the Prince of Wales from England for America it w-as stated that when he arrived at New York, he would be the proud but possibly somewhat embarrassed recipient of a S'hoal of proposals of marriage from American girls. This is the outcome of a surprising kind of competition organised by the New York Daily Al irror. • The paper recently opened its columns to girls desiring to make Leap-Year offers to the Prince, and received about a hundred replies. The journal stated that it intended to forward the best to the Prince with the girls’ photographs. The following are representative extracts from the • letters _• — ■Margaret Fisher, Jersey City, wrote: “1 hope. Your Royal Highness, that you will like my likeness.. You ea v ’ot see my hair. Lt is golden brown. My eyes are blue. I have • been sitting on the beach all afternoon trying to make up the sort of letter a prince would be interested in, bin somehow I find 1 cannot write you flowery phrases. I can only say that every time you fall off your horse and I read about it I feel as though I had fallen off.’’ Thus wrote .Dorea Dare, of New York: “I first fel] in love with you when I noticed that - although born a peer you are a democrat at heart. If my picture fails to impress yoji, I want you to know that I am a .student of music, and hope to be abls, to play a way to your heart.’’ Gloria Walter, another New York girl, thus expressed herself:—“You cannot tell from my picture, but I have golden blonde hair, big blue eyes, pearly white teeth and fair complexion. I fell for you, Prince, long before you fell from your horse, and whether you accept my proposal of marriage or not, I am yours until the Statue of Liberty starts to crumble."

Edith Heiiken, Brooklyn, said:—“l have read with pleasure and not without a thrill of your various exploits, ■and each time I have admired you mor? and more. I do not ]ove you. Prince, for your station in life. My affection is not for your financial status. It is because I feel somehow that we have something in common. Some day, perhaps. you and I—Well, 1 am your devoted American admirer." Mollie Norris, also of Brooklyn, was by no means backward. She declared her sentiments in the following words:

“Whether you select me or not 1 want you to know that you will find. the nicest, prettiest and wittiest women in the world here in New York. Of course you have been here, -so you ought to know, but the 1924 crop is a world beater, Eddie.—Yours till I meet Lord Renfrew in September.’’