New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-28
,usressman Proposed Mar
rage on Second Visit, Says
l8.lear-Old Washington
Girl: No Attempt to Spoon
Phi On Contest for Wife
perfect Gentleman. Declares
Miss Michel. but She OBJ
iected to Old Lady for Ma


,.hool in this city. to-day told about
ssr experiences with Representative
Manuel Herrick and his beauty con-
ST. According to the Congressman,
- was putting or 4 beauty contest all
~ himself in order to get data sup
wing bill he introduced recently in
H. House abolishing such contests be-
s,ss Of their evil influences. But. ac-
.ard;ne to Miss Niebel, the Oklahoma
avn grower told her, after she had
lied out MS questionnaire, that it was
s;s sttempt to get wife. He had al
-ost persuaded her that she stood first
- his list Of eligibles and that he had
mo great influence" that he boasted,
vss Michel said. when he angered her
Nv referring to her mother as "the old
lady"
visited by this "beauty expert" Miss
yi.bel decided, she said. to tell how
h. had made love to her. offered mar
rsge on his second visit and asked
her over the telephone if she could
ever love him.
Miss Niebel said she received the Con
e-essman's beauty questionnaire three
sseks ago Asserting that she filed it
ant as joke. not expecting to hear
suvthing more of it. she continued:
Didn't Try TO Spoon
SWELL. two or three evenings later
re Congres sman called me on the tele-
nhoue and said | was in the lead of the
contest. | was slightly pleased, and
shen ne asked ME if he could come to
.se me | remembered some of the letters
:sving the writer was handsome. and
old him to come up Sunday afternoon.
August IA. He did, and l was very
disappointed.
lie sat in the parlor with his lew
crossed and looked first at ME and then
It the ceiling, telling me of all his past
lite-how he had once loved. OF his
power and influence. He said he had
Visited other girls.
81 want to say right here that, except
for his ill-advised methods of referring
70 people, such as calling my mother
the old LADY, Mr.. Herrick acted thor
oughy the gentleman. He did not try
to spoon with me or anything of thai
sort"
Mr.. Herrics asked for another >daee,
but was refused A week later he per-
listed and called
influence and Pressure
"As soon as Mr.. Herrick sat down
in nv parlor he started again to tell
ne Of his contest for love-" Miss
Niebel continued. "He said to me:
You have never lost your lead in the
contest. Only two of the four girls
at the top press you close
"'My idea IS to marry girl and to
protect her from all unwholesome in
saences,' he went on. 4 have great
PRESSURE and influence. If you ever
carry me you'll never have to go to
york. because ] have plenty of money.
Yo1 and your mother would be happy
then, wouldn't you. kid 20
According to Miss Niebel, Herrick
old her he had two OF the girls eating
out OF MS hand after they had turned
over his letter to a Postoffice inspec-
Tor.
As to replies to his letters, Miss
Michel said he told her: "All that sent
their names in I went to see. One
WIS only block from here. Another
sLrl lived III Kenilworth. She was
hight nice. Another was a Central
High School girl, q little sawed Fl
unt with shock Of hair. I couldn t
Georgetown girl told me she wouldn't
e: her daughter enter my contest.
didn't care. because I didn't like the
sound Of her name"
Would Have Saved Husband
Miss Nebel said she felt like show
ing the Congressman to the door
when he told her he would like to
meat the old lady" referring to her
aother She resumed:
when my mother came down he
Ssid: Oh. by golly, I'm glad to meet
al the folks. Your daughter is in the
lead IT. my contest, you know. She
tells me- your husband died year or
70 age. 1t is too bad you didn't know
~ 'hsn- | would have saved him, be
5ssse ! vas doctor once. He had
scpss1 Well never dropped a case
II drapsy Course, you know, | might
saTe failed, but | think I would have
saved him.
He started on his love contest
zee more, shouting: am the sole
Edge Of beauty in my contest, and
you're IN the lead, KID 1t. is puerie
aid foolish 70 suggest any one else.
I'm surprised after looking at some
Of the girls. that they had the gall to
answer
Ny mother kept on asking Mr.. Her
answered: 'My contest : just this: II
End young lady that suits me, why
III marry her. II she loves me I'm
ss' prize, with all that belongs to me
nat Is It.
Down or That Big Ranch
You wouldn't mind living in the
ssan,fy. would you" be went on. | an
efeFed that could never live in the
sssntry.
But we would 20 down on our
amen = ny political enemies ever re
sfse my influence, ne said. And
.2s' think, KID, down on that big ranch
Ssc be happy
Nevertheless insisted that 7 would
ssTer 70 u the country. lie said he
sspsd Id change my mind and that
<sa settlc that later when we founC
~ u we suited each other.
g.. zen re st4rtcd 20 tell my mother
+ 'ose story Il Was the story O
At one love that ne had told roe or
u Hrzt visit II is too long 70 pa
ssTp he,e. nth the exception that {
-l''91e mad wiped out some % Con
.'T's'asn Herrick's property, ne SAID
ses the grl had married the othe'
81 lie has remained single eyel
re out lonYs for companl oneh p
~ u the eompanionship his wife il
'.sposec 70 afford him.
an the lonezomest man n
ne told me in 4 choking voice
>. lpn2 for comp n,onship and wan
Yei fac wife. have only m,
~+'ptfe sister. District woman, am
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