LONELY MEN AND WOMEN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 460, 29 December 1930, Page 8

LONELY MEN AND WOMEN

SEARCH FOR LIFE PARTNERS AVALANCHE OF APPEALS The appeal of the ex Mayor of Durham, Mr W. W. Wilkinson, for a national bureau to deal w’ith the innumerable cases of men and women in quest of life-partners, says the Sunday Dispatch, has met with a remarkable and immediate response. A perfect avalanche of appeals from all parts of Britain poured into the ex-Mayor’s residence in Durham in one week recently. “These lonely people are causing me great sorrow—l wish I could do something for them,” he said. A man in the south writes that he would like to meet someone aged about 30 to 35, preferably a widow, if of a kindly disposition and jolly. He adds: “1 am 55, fond of walking and reading, and do not drink nor smoke. 1 will live anywhere except London or Manchester. I have not much money, as I have used it on the education of my boys, and though I have been left £2OO a year by my mother-in-law I lose that if I marry.” Here is an extract from the letter of a widow in the south of England, 50 years old, who has two sons, both of whom may shortly be leaving home: “I dread the empty house and the loneliness, as I am rather a sociable person. If I could find a suitable man I would like to marry again.” A northern woman of 74 makes a pitiful plea. She says; “1 am tall, considered fairly good-looking, and am often judged to be only 60. I should appreciate a quiet man.’’ These are only a few appeals picked at random from the bundle.