The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-08-04
ALL WANT
HER HAND
Miss ReaI Receiving Bushels
of Love Letters,
YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE
Would Like to Wed the
Lucky Hello Girl"
SOME VERY SOFT GUSH
From Mortal Men Who Claim
TO Be Angels.

Il requires baskets to contain the let
tiers received daily at the home Of Miss
Matte Beal. H8 South Market street. The
postman calls there four or five times
day and each time he has bag fun Of
letters for the fair Hello Girl who was
lucky enough to secure the second choice
claim in the Lawton district. Nearly all
Of them are proposals Of marriage. They
come from all parts OF the United States
and yesterday one came from far distant
Alaska All her correspondents request
an immediate reply, but they VIII be dis
appointed Miss Beal Is not at home.
having gone 10 Oklahoma TO select her
claim and has not yet received any Of the
letters, although her sister, Miss Dolly,
has expressed 10 her box Of the fun
NEST ones. They VIII be a source Of
much amusement 70 her.
Miss BeaTs correspondents are in every
walk Of life, soldiers. lawyers. farmers
sons, commercial travellers, school teach
ers and doctors and in her mail yester-
day was a love-Iaden letter from Meth
photographs, few Of them send refer
ences as TO their financial standing and
all Of them send personal descriptions Of
themselves.
Until one would read those letters he
could hardly believe that the earth is the
abode of so many angels. None Of thin
have bad habits. They are particular
about impressing this on Miss Beal. It is
wonderful the number Of them who do
not drink. chew. swear or stay out late
at night. Some OF them are so eloquent
IN giving the details Of these virtues that
one can almost see their sprouting wings.
The BeaTs are sensible people, too sensl-
he to be deceived by the love sick gush
of Miss 3Iattie's fool correspondents. and
yet they enjoy reading them. Even the
gray haired Mrs Beal who is past fifty,
and may be close to sixty, is fond of TAX
ing her fan and rocking chair out on the
veranda and reading the letters Ia the
twilight.
Il don't want you TO publish their
names" said Mrs. Beal to a reporter for
the Eagle last night; 1t would hardly
be right ] won't give YOU all of them
because many of them asked TO have the
letters destroyed after Matte read them.
and / presume although we do not know
any Of thera that we ought TO respect
their wishes OF course you understand
that we dc not look upon these letters.
seriously"
What are Miss BeaIs plans with refer
ence To- her claims?'
II really do not know yet. We have
not heard from Matte yet. She and her
brother are down at Lawton now looking
over the ground. She win probably
build q house upon it and make 1t her
home. While 7 do not know h=c plans
definitely it is safe to say that she VIII
begin breaking the land at once AID viii
farm it.
Matte has always been lucky. She
has had luck in everything she has IN
dertaken."
From Mrs Beal a reporter learned that
Miss Peal came very near not taking
chance i'm the drawing.
THE past winter" said Ms. B ssl. i
was with my sons near ConeyViile. They
are renters and ! told then, hat they
ousht 10 60 down 70 the Wichita country
ana set land of their own. They said
they would not that they we're getting
along nicely where they were and did not
like the idea Of going into new country
When Matte came home from Kansas
CITY q couple of months ago I told her
She ought 70 try her luck in the new
country. She said she had no money and
7 said would give her some. She went
70 FL Reno 70 register hut the crowds
were So thick that She came back home
without registering. Later sent her
down again an she registered al rlSAt-
Probably II she registered the first time
she went down she wouldn't set any
thing.
-Tas there any truth I'm the story that
she found a horse shoe the day before the
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