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Otago Witness, Issue 4031, 16 June 1931, Page 23

Fame, with all its embarrassments, has come into the lives of two pretty young sisters living in the quaint Somerset village of Barrow, Gurney. They are the Aliases Edith and Alildred Carter, daughter of the village blacksmith. The father of the girls sometimes finds too much work to do, and Edith and Alildred put on blacksmith’s aprons, roll up their sleeves, and lend a hand at blowing the bellows or fixing a horseshoe. They form the prettiest pair of “ blacksmiths ” in England. They helped their father undisturbed until recently. Then, one day, they were “ discovered.” Publicity was thrust upon them. A photograph of the sisters, busy at work in the forge was circulated far and wide, and now a “ talkie ” of them has been made. “ We have had offers of marriage, offers of jobs, and offers of free samples of face cream to save our complexions from all over the country and the world,” one of them said. “ Young men seem to like the prospect of having a blacksmith’s daughter as wife! ”