The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-22
One Topeka Bachelor Receives
Leap Year Proposal.
"Dear Slender Butterfly Lady.
Wants a Husband.
.SWEETlY PERFUMED LETTER
She Don't Object to Answer Be.
ing Delayed.
Love Episode Is Given With
Mans Name Kept Dark.

a lonesome. time by the fireside
watching the dying embers'' is not
necessary for at least one of the To-
peka bachelors. The State journal
listed as eligible receivers of Leap
Year proposals just before the close
OF 1920. One who terms herself a
dear little slender butterfly lady,
with big blue eyes and curly hair
and a skin all love to touch" has Of
fered to assist one of the afo-e-
mentioned bachelors in watching the
embers die II his heating apparatus
is gas stove it is probable that she
would be willing to keep him COM
pany in watching the gas bill increase.
And IL he does have gas stove. the
gas fumes would be easily killed by
the perfume the curly-haired, blue
eyed lady uses. if the odor arising from
the pink stationery on which she
wrote the letter indicates anything.
Used Perfumcd Stationery.
The possible means of the bachelor
for ending his state of celibacy came
in the pink letter. December so. the
day following the publication of the
list of bachelors in The State journal.
The stationery not only has a heavy
perfume attached, but also has gilt
edges, It is dated CORTLAND, Kan,
and is signed Miss Frances Wood
bury" most appropriate name To
follow her description of her skin
that all love to touch" The love
epistie, given for public perusal on
the promise that the bachelors name
be Kept dark. reads as follows:
My Own Dearest
You poor. dear man-to think that
YOU of all men should not know the
thrill which comes to man when hold
ing dear little slender butterfly lady
in your arms I can't imagine YOU
sitting alone by your open fireplace.
But l can imagine you and I sitting
there watching the dying embers. You
in your big, black leather arm chair,
on your knee.
Wouldn't It BE Great.
Wouldn't it be great to have a
sweet little blue eyed, curIy-locked
wlfey TO greet you at evening after 4
hard days work, instead of the China
man? (The puzzled reporter assumed
tnat the Chinaman mentioned was an
imaginary valet of the bachelor, or
perhaps a Chinese 1aundryman wait
ing at the door with the bachelors
shirts and collars.) Dear heart. I.
would make you just such a. wife.
tSimilar to valet?) I'm not very
tail. have big blue eyes, curly hair
and skin all love to touch. I'm
afraid you would have to send me a
night letter If you wished your answer
| to be received in the year 1890 But
i don't object to ii being little tardy.-
only want you to marry me. Please
don't break my heart by saying no.
dearest, FOR you are meant only for
me.
"Oh. -, I can hardly wait until
you and 1 are one. I can imagine
leaning on your arm stroiling down
Cages beach with all the others of
my sex gazing enviously at me. But
then, sweetheart. nothing expresses my
feeling better than these few words
by Jean Lefavre, Dear heart, are you
true to me-Tny heart yearns only for
thee-my soul knows no sunshine
until you are mine-faithfu1 / will al
ways be-you are more than the world
to income bring the sunshine, dear.
dear heart
Lovingly a true lover
MISS FRANCES WOODBURY."