REMARKABLE ROMANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1047, 11 August 1930, Page 13

REMARKABLE ROMANCE

ADAM’S APPLE WINS EVE A demand for a wife, written on the tissue paper round an apple, has Ie 1 to a remarkable romance, as the npsult of which a young Plymouth girl is to journey to New Zealand to marry a man she has never seen (states the “Sunday Chronicle”). She is Miss Gladys Sprigge, a 22-year-old shop assistant, who lives with her parents, and acts as cashier and saleswoman at a little village general store a few miles from here. Three months ago Miss Sprigge was unpacking a consignment of apples from New Zealand yvhen she saw on the wrapper of one a message in ink. “Yes” by Mail “To any prfetty girl who reads this,” it ran: “The writer, Mr. James Kenyon, bachelor, aged 34, is in search of a wife yvho will not mind living on the outskirts of civilisation, and roughing It. She must not be over 25, and must be.domesticated and able to cook and sew. Good looks are not essential, but are certainly a recommendation. Photographs exchanged and further particulars on request.” More as a joke than anything else, Miss Sprigge, so she told me today, wrote to Mr. Kenyon, telling him that she had found his letter, and enclosing hep photograph. Back by the next mail from abroad came a letter from Mr. Kenyon, enclosing his photograph, and the passage money for the voyage out. “If you decide not to come,” he wrote, “you can give the money to some deserving charity.” “He must he kind-hearted and generous to do a thing like that, and so I have decided to marry him,” Miss Sprigge said. “I wrote him yesterday telling him that I would be sailing next month.”