WOULD-BE BRIDES.
Asked by an Alberta farmer to find him a wife, the Prteton (Lancashire) Board of Guardian?, have received a postbag containing six "applications for the post." The letters are mainly from women in Lancashire, Yorkshire. and Birmingham, but London is not unrepresented. Several contain ounint stipulations. "I shall expect you to get up and heat milk for baby during the night," writes one woman. Another lays clown that "you will have to be a kind and loving husband. I shall expect to be waited on hand and foot. Let me have my oww way. My word must be law. I shall expect you to comb my hair every night, black my boots, and allow me to go to the pictures." A third specimen letter contains the confession, "I am very domesticated and fond of cigarettes."
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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 590, 7 December 1920, Page 2
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137WOULD-BE BRIDES. Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 590, 7 December 1920, Page 2
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