The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-20
Of
THE GOLDEN
HAIR GIRL
mice OLD GENTLEMAN"
WANTS GIRL FOR WIFE
WITH RED LIPS

New York, July 20-Jamaica saw
more blue-eyed, blond.haired, rosy
checked girls yesterday than 1t ever
before held mt one time, and Fulton
avenue had so many Of them cominA
and going and looking at the street
numbers that it looked like thor
oughfare OF some old Saxon city.
David l.. Hardenbrook, a real estate
dealer at No 3l9 Fulton avenue, had
been requested By nice old million
aire of sixty-two years to find him a
twenty-year-Old wife with blond halr
blue eyes and red cheeks The mat
ter had got into the papers, and there
were girls, answering the description
more or less. making their way TO
Jamaica all afternoon. Mr.. Harden
brook was away in New York and
his Office was closed for the time
Being, but when he got home last
night and learned about the deluse
he had escaped be looked sober He
had his hands filed with letters.
This being a Dan Cupid is a serl-
GUS matter, he said. Il have a friend
who is worth nearly twenty million
dollars. put it down at eight mil
I
a reporter about IL Yesterday. He Is
siXty.two years old and his wife died
eight months ago. He mas no bad
habits and has retired from business.
Recently he went up on the old farm
where he was born and tried the
quiet life On that farm Is Won
derfHl spring that he remembered as
a boy to have been used by local doc
tors for their patients, and also used
to keep the cattle IN fine shape He
has been drinking this water with
the result that he is now perfectly
we'll and as strong as he ever was in
New York, and told me he could not
stand the lonelness-hs daughter
and son are both married and live
apart from him--and that he was
Of getting married again IL
he could find such an ideal wife as
his first one was. He asked me to
try to find such a one for him, and
! consented. The requirements are
that she shall be blonde weighing
rather more than one hundred ana
forty pounds happy temperament, fair
education and good family. 1t is not
necessatyk that she shall have money
To investigate Candidates
This man was once a successful
in New York and his life
witt his wife was ideal His chil.
dren do not object to his marrying
again, but fear he viii not get such
a Wife as their mother was The
children are about forty years old
am getting lots Of letters today
from girls all over this part Of the
and some OF them are inter
esting They send their pictures and
5sk for an introduction ] shall care
fully investigate the most promising
ones through their pastors and social
and business connections They viii /
never know they are being nvestigat ]
ad and no one will know what it isl
for If I find one whom ! think is |
worthy ! shall introduce her 10 my
friend in hope that he may like her. |
ANY girl who gets him will get a
prize"
Picking UP some of the letters he
had received from blondes during the
lay Mr.. Hardenbrook read bits Of !
them without giving the names or ad. |
lfesses. One girl said she didn't !
have blue eyes but did have two dim
Lies that more than made up for the |
lack OF blue As a matter Of fact |
blue eyes are not necessary IN this |
ease. Mr. Hardenbrook says. but were |
Just mentioned to suggest the sweet /
sort OF temperament wanted in the
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