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Show I GETS 3500 PROPOSALS ; BUT SPURNS THEM ALL Edith Mae Patterson, Arkansas School Teacher, and the "Mona LlM Smite" That Won Her 3500 Proposals. Be PfEA Sen lOC.) , PINE .BLiUFF, A k.. July 1 7. Three thousand five hundred proposals pro-posals of marriage! Edith Mae Patterson, young 'school-I 'school-I mai m'' here, has received that many And has rejected every one of jthem. Some of theni sho hasn't even read. I Eight months ago Miss Patterson's aunt, without Miss Patterson's knowledge. knowl-edge. entered the schoolteacher's photograph pho-tograph In a state beauty contest. 1 A little later along came a checu 'for $1,000 Miss Patterson had won 'first prize. immediately her fame afl f'the girl with the Mona Eisa smile" I began to spread and proposals began 1 to rain in by mail and telegraph. Then a contest to find the pret-ties'l pret-ties'l girl in the United Spates started. start-ed. Miss Patterson entered. She won the first prize of $2500. More proposals. Hundreds of 'em. Ail Miss Pattersons friends were kept busy opening them. Now the little schoolteacher has entered en-tered an International beauty contest. Pin Bluff people are confident she'll win. If she does. It will be her last contest, she says. "Competing iBn t half 03 Interesting Interest-ing as teaching school." she says Marriage V Not until the ripht man comes, says Miss Patterson and miles the Mona Lisa smile. |