“ CUPID’S CLEARING HOUSE.”

Hokitika Guardian, 9 June 1920, Page 4

“ CUPID’S CLEARING HOUSE.”

FICKLE ENGLISH GIRLS

NEW YORK, April 14

“Cupid’S Cicariiigr-House” is the name that lias been facetiously applied to the headquarters lipro of the 'travellers’ Aid Society, an organisation devoted to the care of war financees arriving in America to meet and wed the objects of their affections. Instead of being merely an agency through which young English women wore welcomed on arrival and put in touch with their prospective husbands— American soldiers whose love they won under the influence of war-time romance—Miss Virginia Murray, the secretary of the society is now frequently compelled to assume the role of confidante ,adviser and friend to disappointed sisters.

And to make matters worse, the Society is being deluged with hundreds of letters by every mail from English girls who have conceived the erroneous impression that there are not enough brides /to go round. ' Here'is a letter from an English girl which reached the Society’s head quarters to-day and is a good example: “I have read that you find English girls change their minds o» arriving in America. I want to assure you that we are not all alike. If you know of an American who is very lonely and wishes to marry for comradeship 1 should he glad to meet him.” \ Scottish lassie enclosed a letter which she asked the Society to forward to a, former American soldier in Grand Rapids, Michigan, whoso fiancee had fallen in love with and married a fellow passenger on the voyage to this country. The supplicant wrote the society: ' f “I do not mean any harm ■ in asking you to- send my. letter to the y.oung man, but I do.feel sorry for him.”