NINE MARRIAGE OFFERS.

North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17748, 14 March 1927, Page 2

NINE MARRIAGE OFFERS.

A "£10,006 A YEAR" WOMAN; LETTERS NOT TO BE ANSWERED Few women would be so charitable as Miss E. Beesley, who declines to condemn as fortune hunters nine men who have proposed marriage following her appointment as manager of a London insurance office at a high salary.^Miss Beesley is more inclined to be amused than saddened. * "It is quite time that the men have written me suggesting marriage since it was announced a few davs ago that I had been appointed manager of the West End branch of the Southern Light Association," she said to an interviewer. "The figure of £10,000 a year was mentioned as my salary, but although I have nothing to say about that I began to receive letters from men as soon as the figures were published. "I am not sure how many..of them were in the natiire of 'leg-pulls,' and how many were not. But even if it is possible that one or two of them were serious, I do not think I shall trouble to answer them. "I do not think it would be fair or kind on my part to condemn ajl the men, or even to poke fun at some of them. I wili just let them have their little joke. and leave it at that. None of the letters were from educated men, and some of the writers kept up a one-sided correspondence for some days."