ROMANCE OF A POSTER

Waikato Times, Volume 106, Issue 17837, 9 October 1929, Page 3

ROMANCE OF A POSTER

GIRL'S LETTER TO “MODEL.” “•NOW WE’RE TO BE MARRIED.” An English girl’s discovery of her ideal man on a picture poster has had a romantic sequel at Brighton. Everybody has seen those posters of strong, silent men, pointing accusing masculine fingers from hoardings and demanding to know why the world at large does not smoke a certain brand of cigarette or buy a certain make of underwear. Miss Gladys Hcwett, a pretty young Brighton typist, passed one on her way to Ihe ofllc-e every morning. It depicted a very handsome young man with crisp curly hair, and Miss Hcwett sighed a long, deep sigh. “Why doesn’t one meet men like that in real life,” she said to herself. And then dawned the great idea. Miss Hewett sat down and typed a letter to the firm asking if by any chance the poster had been drawn from life, and if so, would they forward her letter to the original. In the envelope she enclosed her photograph. Miss Hewett subsequently told a newspaper correspondent the sequel to her strange romance. “I got a reply stating that there, was an original of the poster, and that my letter had been forwarded to him,” she said. “A few days later came a letter from the young man himself. He enclosed his photograph and asked me if I would write to him. The young man proved to be a wireless operator in the Merchant Service. His brother is a poster artist and used him as a model when he was home on leave. Yesterday he came home from a long voyage in the East.” Miss Hcwett proudly exhibited a half-hoop diamond ring on the third finger of her left hand. "And now we’re engaged to be married,” she smiled happily.