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Show Woman Who Thinks Men Should Marry LDHELY MAIDED ARE WILLBKJ MARRY "Bridget Brannigan's" Letters . on Bachelors Bring Letters From Pretty Girls. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, May 4. Widespread interest in-terest has beon excited by tho nmucing letter which "Bridget Brannigan" wrote to the rural district council ofj Dunshaughlin, County Meath, and which caused the councillors to order tho bachelor occupants of their laborers' labor-ers' cottages cither to get married within three mouths or vacate the houses- She complained that Bhe was an exile in England becauso tho Irish bachelors would not many, and that tho housekeeping of the bachelors spoiled tho cottagos. At yesterday's meeting of tho council coun-cil tho chairman said tho clerk had received re-ceived a number of letters from England, Eng-land, some asking to be placed in communication com-munication with eligible bachelors, and others from English bachelors inquiring inquir-ing tho address of Mis Bridget Bran-uigan. Bran-uigan. With tho letters came photographs photo-graphs and prepaid addressed envelopes envel-opes for roplies. Sixteen letters wore also addressed to Miss Brannigun at the locnJ postoffice. One letter asked if it wore any use "offering four girls from Bristol," who "would bo very pleased, owing to tho dreadful state of tho country, at present, to settlo in tho apparently peacoful village of 'Dunshaughlin with good husbands.' "I am an English girl, aged 29, anxious anx-ious to settle down to matrimonial bliss," said a letter with a Payawater, London, address. "Iris and Doris," writing from Portsmouth, inclosed photographs of two pretty girls, and stated that thoy wero sisters, had a little incomo of their own. and would be obliged for tho photographs of two "nice young men. and they must be in n decent position." po-sition." A correspondent writing from Kent described herself as "quite domesticated, do-mesticated, muBical, tall, slight and dark." The council ordored the letters to remain with the clerk for inspection by any interested persons. |