Show I ff GOD SENDS WIVES I Sir Thomas Lipton n Tells TenS Why His Motto Is Walt Wail Philadelphia Inquirer God sends a good wife to every ever man Why Wh then should I hunt for Jor one II It there is one intended for me she will come crome I am waiting and when w eI I get her 1 shall thank God Goll accordingly Thus spoke bluff hearty genial Sir Thomas Lipton gallant galI nt cup challenger and game loser looser of two races for Ameri Amerl Americas cas yachting trophy In n answer a to queries bused based op on reports that he ha had come to America this time to seek an heiress bride He lie laughed off the suggestion with characteristic good humor as if he wag wada was the most natural thing for or him to open his heart to the world on his views of matrimony As a matter of ot fact he has come back troph and once more visited this city where the chivalrous Irish knight and kingly prince of good fellows is dear to the hearts of at hundreds of at friends he be behas has made here on former trips Flanked on both sides by steamer trunks galore the famous yachtsman arrived at West Philadelphia station on the Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania railroad yesterday esterday afternoon frem New York Scarcely had the train stopped before Sir Thomas hid had h d lightly stepped from his Pullman with his own peculiar smile on his lips Ups and the dancing twinkle of his kindly eyes With long strides he made toward friends and greeted them with his profuse heartiness In the gathering dusk while waiting for all the many trunks to be loaded in the second of Mr Morgans automobiles sta stationed stationed tIned outside the station Sir Thomas laughingly denied the report of his heir quest I shant have to hunt for my m wife said the famous Irishman in mocking tones The woman God Intends for me will be put In my path All I shall shan have to do is to claim her That is of course 1 lie hp Interpolated hurriedly If she also thinks I am the theman theman theman man Intended for her You know I firmly believe that for tor every man In the world there is one wo woman woman woman man to make him Im supremely mel happy happ and blessed Some time somewhere sooner or later she and he will come to together together gether Wait Wait Valt Is s the watchword It is mine I Iam Iam Iam am waiting I cant tell ten when the chosen woman will appear or whether she will willever willever ever appear But all the hunting I might do d help to find her There you ou have it in a nutshell It was pure invention and utterly abr a surd that the report got started in the first place It arose from fronia a little joking Joki g gon on the part of a few of my American friends because I 1 happened to be a bach bachelor bachelor bachelor elor You know how bow a rumor grows here herein hereIn herein in America just like a rolling ball ban of 01 snow now no You newspaper chaps are responsible In Ina Ina ina a measure too for the fact that every everywhere eer everywhere where here I go this time on my tour of your country people view me with suspicion as ass asan asan an heiress hunter hunt r Why Vh some somo of the papers pa have even taken offense at this supposed fortune hunting of mine It is Isreall really too o bad because I of don dont met t want Americans to think badly of me mc When asked whether he expected Americas to find finda f a wife before winning the theor Americas cup cupor cupat cupa or at vice versa Sir Thomas winked Inscrutably ably and replied d dh Ah Alt h now Hit is a Jolly jon s stumper of t a query to put to a poor seafaring man |