Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-09
TITLE MAD MAIDS
BESEECH A COUNT
TO MARRY Them
Sick in Hospital, He Receives
Many Missives From Cove
tous Girls.

New York. Special: A New York
newspaper a received a letter from
Count Egon Frederick Terglau o
Ehrenfels. who is taking the rest cure
at st. Peters hospital, Brooklyn, in
which the count states that he has
been overrun with letters and tele-
grams from young women who wish to
marry him.
All told, the count has received IS
epistles, all written in the most endear-
ing terms, by girls. some of whom adj
NIT poverty and inability to settle a
dot" on him.
Il wish you would please ask young
women to stop sending me letters"
pleaded the count. Il am not in this
country for the purpose Of matrimony.
1 came here for the purpose of making
a living. but" he added with a smile.
Il may find a woman who suits me and
then probably I'll marry. But when I
do it will be for love only and not for
money. I am disguised with the way
American girls sell themselves to for
eign noblemen."
Tell Their Love in Poetry.
Some of the counts CORRESPONDENTS
sent their love in poetry. The German
nobleman showed a reporter several Of
the letters, which, he said. are good
samples of what the IS contain. One
of them is as follows:
MY Dear Count: Pardon for the lib
erty l am taking in writing to you,
especially no, being properly introduced
to you, but you might oversee this for
mality in some instances.
Il very much regret that you are not
we'll, and would like to meet you per-
sonally, as your name sounds promi-
nent and we'll to me, not forgetting your
worthy title.
II imagine you must be a nice young
man. We have two autos, n for pa
and one for the rest of the family. If
NNpp l0tst 49, ~,,1 fH.-
for you with the machine some after.
noon and take q ride with you. no mat
ter where. No one will suspect any
thing, not ever h chauffeur, and then
I'll bring you back to the hospital, and
so on until we are thoroughly acquaint-
forgot to tell about myself. I am II
years old. brunette, perfect figure, and
gray eyes. They all say I am beauti-
full. and ave admirers by the dozen,
but they are too common for me.
FLORENCE H. WILSON,
General Delivery. N. Y. City"
No Money, But Love.
Another from a Newburg girl reads:
Dear Sir: Seeing that l am not an
heiress, l think l l have a chance to win
you. l am a young girl. considered
good looking, and enough money
to support us for the rest of our lives.
Well move out to the farm and build
a nest, living happily n away from
the noise of the city and it's pleasures.
1 hope you will consider my letter.
LOUISA HELM.
Water street. Newburg, N. Y"
II nave not answered any Of the let
tiers and don't intend to-" the count said.
AT present 1 am too busy perfecting
the plans of an aeroplane with which ]
hope to be able to fly across the Allan
tic"
The count is somewhat of an aviator
and is now working on an aeroplane
which he says is a combination of the
monoplane and biplane, and if he ever
gets the funds to complete it he says
HI will be able to average l20 miles an
hour with it.
During his stay at the hospital vor
Ehrenfels invented a c~ontrivance which
he says will do away with women's
hatpins. He will patent it when he
leaves the institution next week.