LEAP YEAR ROMANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 175, 11 December 1912, Page 7

LEAP YEAR ROMANCE.

FACTORY GIRL'S. MESSAGE. j Fremantle, November 29. ' As 1008 was leap year a factory girl | at Varlaston, Staffordshire (Eng.) took \ it into Jicr head "to negotiate with liian- j kind in an ingenious manner. When i this impulse came upon her she was eh- i gaged in the prosaic task of wrapping I up iron nuts for export, and in one. of the packages she inserted a note asking the opener to write to her. Exactly three months ago a young man employed at Hoskins' foundry, Perth, found the note, and immediately replied to it. By last mail he received the following communication front the enterprising English lass:— "Just a few lines to let you know that I received your welcome letter, which took me quite by surprise, and yet I remember quite well when it was done. I was employed at Martin, Winn and Co.'s "wrapping up parcels, which you came, across; and I remember seeing it in the order that it was a shipping order. I have often thought that the. ship had gone down, as it was three years ago. I should be very pleased to hear a little of your country, as it must be different to ours. Lots of people call ours the 'black country.' I should very much like to see a little of another country, and 1 iiave made up my mind to go to Canada next spring, as so many of my friends have gone out, and the." write to say they like it. I should have come to Australia, as mother has ail uncle out there; but I do not where he is. I should very much lite your photo, and I will have mine taken and send you one. I hope there is no objection in asking you if you are married? If you are please say so in your next letter." Enclosed with the letter is an illustrated card, and the Perth young man finds he cannot understand the "subtlety of the feminine appeal in a text printed across it, which is taken from the second chapter, 13th verse, of Hebrews: "I will put my trust in Him."