WOOING A BACHELOR.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3241, 10 June 1911, Page 4

WOOING A BACHELOR.

TWO HUNDRED PROPOSALS

Colonel Edward Green,, formerly of Texas, but now of New York, the bugboned, six foot, gawky-looking soil' of Mrs. Hetty Green, who is known as the richest woman in America, has received 200 proposals of marriage since he was quoted in the American newspapers last autumn as saying that lie ‘‘felt a bit lonely and might wed if lie could find the right girl.” The colonel pointed to a stack of letters three feet high addressed to him by loving ones in various parts of the world, all applicants for his hand, and ranging from a cow girl in Colorado to a real countess in France. The colonel admits that the competition is -becoming a trifle too warm, and the “New York World” by way of warning to other applicants, publishes a picture of Colonel 'Green surrounded by photos of the prettiest girls who have expressed their anxiety to make his life less lonely. Mrs. Hetty Green has the reputation of being licit only the richest woman m America but the thriftiest, and for years, with her unmarried daughter and a* few cats, she inhabited the small flat in Hoboken, New. Jersey, the social status of which might be compared with Bermondsey, in London, or even St. Mary’s,. Whitechapel. On the other hand, Colonel Green, a greet, strapping, fellow, while he inherits his mother’s undoubted financial ability, is also, a ready spender of money, and fulfils admirably the Irish: description of a “real broth of a boy.” W;" , Fifty per cent of the letters are from young ladies anxious to get their portraits into the papers, but others are apparently genuine. " V.-Wt “Note the perfume,” exclaimed the colonel, whimsically, picking out letters at random. “Most of them are scented. Here’s one from Constantinople, and no donbt if one luad time to look them over there would be a few from China and Japan and a dozen from Canada.” No. he was not proud of receiving the letters, and did not intend answering them. They appealed to him chiefly as illustrating the trouble which a casual remark about loneliness might bring to an unmarried man when he hapnened toi be richly related. One statuesque brunette ; enclose cl her photograph, and asked the colonel to . meet her in the dining room of a fashionable New York hotel. ' She said she would wear a black dress and a. reel rose. “If you like 1 me, don’t, p’ease, be afraid to approach me.” said the missive. Colonel Green admitted tliaJfc be went down to the din-ing-room just out of curiosity. She Was there right enough, black dress, red rose, anti all complete. “Did she see.me? Sir, I guess not,” said the colonel. “Believe me, I’m a sensible mam and simplv up to my ears in. managing my. mother’s estate and my own affairs.” One of the letters addressed to the colonel was as follows: — “Your photograph in the paper does not look like a mil’ion-doliar face, but just a common, everyda- sort. Your collar looks sensible, and makes me think of my dear old dad I want a. real man to marry me, and I want him to feel that I’m l just part of his life, to cut his magazines, put on his slippers, and be part of life furniture.” An actress, who wrote from Bournemouth, England, said hie- left her profession on account of nerves, and now she had made herself beautiful by Pisco veriria “a cure for greasy faces, which she hoped the colonel would be ab e to promote.” One paper publishes four columns or the colonel’s interesting love letters.