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Show OLD WEST IN MOTHBALLS London Girl Wants Boots and Saddles her know, he wrote. If poets for horsewomen are all filled In the west, Mlaa O Leary offers some of her other accomplishments. accom-plishments. She Is trained In nursing, has been an assistant la a big store, has taken courses la domestic science and commercial subjects and for 14 years has longed to go west. The old west, the mayor pointed out, "where the red man once flung defiance to the four winds," Is now studded with skyscrapers. Industrial plants and fancy homes. He wonders If she might not be retaining a childhood impression of what the weet used to be like. "I hesitate to disillusion you," he wrote by way of pulling his punches, "for the romance of the old west is a tradition W hold dearty." - , ", sew ' iJ : 4 .' : 'I" sV f Vi From urbane, fogswept London an American-born maid, longing for the life of an Annie Oakley, has called on Mayor E. B. Erwin to help her fulfill a nearly lifelong ambition to settle In the west And Mayor Erwin, manfully I rising to the occasion, Thursday replied with promises to do all he could to land a Job for her, although al-though with a few hints to the effect "the old wild west ain't what she used to be." This Anglicized American Is Miss Mamie OLeary, native of back bay Boston, where she was born In 1908. When quite young, however, she went abroad and has lived in Ireland and England nearly all her life. Misa O'Leary's letter Indicated her particular yearning was to be a top cowhand, riding the range and shouting Tip-ee!" "I have had a few lessons In riding," she wrote. "Do you think it possible for me to obtain a post as ranch girl In your community?" This passage brought the dude ranches to the mayor's mind, although al-though he warned that while the ranches attempted to simulate the old west they were pretty modern at that Anyway, he'U try to locate something for her and let MAYOR E. B. ERWIN I have to disillusion yon. |