HOW TO PROPOSE.
A Hindu father recently received the following letter asking for the hand of his daughter: “Hoar Sir, — is with a liattering penmanship that I write to have communication \\ ith yoil about the prospective condition of your damsel off-spring, jfor some remote time to past a secret passion lias firing lev bosom internally with loving for your daughter. I have navigated every channel in the magnitude of my extensive jurisdiction to' cruelty smother the growing love knot that js being constructed in my within side, blit tiie humid lamp of affection still nourishes my love-sickened heart. Hoping that you will concordantly corroborate in espousing your female progeny to my tender bosom, and thereby acquire me into your family circle, —Your dutiful son-in-law.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1971, 5 January 1907, Page 4
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