The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-06-26
Was the Only
Girl Left in
the World
By JUDY BLAIR
"a. 1924. western Newspaper UnIon.)

oOt11& i1o1 ttet0 -
~ the possibility of it. Its causes
were obscure. It's effects were pro
found throughout the world. Fol
generations the number Of girls bOrr
in proportion TO the number of boys
had been steadily shrinking, until al
last it reached the vanishing point.
AT last it narrowed down to n girl
Yes, Kitty O'Hare was the only CIR
left in the world.
There were boys, boys, oceans OF
boys, although this was the last hui.
man generation that the world would
see. There were boys everywhere
but not another girl. The last woman,
apart from Kitty, whose birth was an
event of worldwide phenomenon, had
been born twenty years before her.
Everywhere there were boys. And
everywhere, in still larger numbers,
were grumpy, crusty old bachelors.
! Everywhere were boys-boy cooks,
boy typists, boy washermen; but no
girls.
Kitty's parents lived in humble cir
c~umstances. Kitty was kept jealousy
apart from a too curious world from
the time that she could toddle. Coun-
ellis of state assembled to decide whom
she was to marry; but they never
of the members wanted to marry Kit
ty himself.
Naturally there was a good deal of
competition. Young men of the year
$500 A. D. were about as anxious to
get married as In the year 1924-that
is to say, they had to be led and
coaxed up to it, but then they made a
wild, mac plunge.
And the fact that only enc man in
the whole diminishing world could
marry Kitty made every man anxious
to-.
Besides, Kitty O'Hara was as beau
tiful as the dawn. She had auburn
hair and blue eyes, fringed with black
SO it is no wonder that the competf-
ton was keen.
She was kept under an enormous
glass case, filed with filtered air, so
that no germs could enter it. 1t was
proof against everything except light,
sound, smiles, and radio. Up to this
case Kitty's parents would lead her
numerous admirers, one by one, at
regular intervals-in fact, all day
long. Each visit occupied some
twenty minutes, and each visitor
handed her a five-pound box of
candies, Misunderstanding it by radio
and letting it reassemble on the other
side of the glass.
What a time the girl hadl 1t is true
she could not go to theaters or
movies" but her these things no
longer existed in the year $500 A. D.
Everything came by radio, including
food. Kitty flirted all day long to
her hearts content. This was not
done by radio.
Finally, to the stupefaction of the
world, Kitty's parents, of whom her
hand had been sought by nineteen
kings, t~wenty-four presidents, and the
explorer of Mars, as well as the
head Of the Pie and Pie Extracts
Trust, announced that she had ac-
Michael O'Rourke, an old boy
hood friend of hers.
Wherewith Kitty stepped out of the
glass case and set about purchasing
her trousseau. Fifty-four suicides were
reported the first day. BY the end of
the week they had run into hundreds.
AT the last moment Kitty was kid
naped from the altar by an airship
sent by a European monarch. This
involved the United States in war.
Michael O'Rourke, who rose to the po-
'ition of commanding general, defeated
enemy in a great battle in the air,
Kitty was rescued.
Michael led his bride back in tri-
lmph to the Little Church Around the
Block, where the long delayed wedding
vas at last celebrated. And as the
pronounced the words that
made them one Kitty looked up with
eyes into the handsome,
face of her lover.
He took her by the arm. "Kitty, :
Iarling-"
Kitty started up. Someone was hold
ng her by the arm and shaking 1t Wig ,
She looked up into the eyes ;
f Michael O'Rourke, the handsome !
Dung stock clerk whom she had for (
ong raved over In secret. (
wake up, Red-head," said Michael
"The boss is coming. Thought
d tell you. Gee, them oyster supper
arties is grand, Kit, but they sure
lay the dickens with you next dayl'