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., n n : VR5o l?V ";; ' fl (c o . . . : : X Y : III Will' II . s . M f i vx - . Every Man & to the ''Loveliest' Stenogrdpke" and Now the -Boss and Get a vsiie Gift y s Comn Weddina V Stenoraplicr" and alio "la WcrldV y Ckftsspton Of lie 3 . , ... -., , Tiap - vno 1 Declined Clerks, ' Cookeepers Salesmen and ; Crunch Managers to Marry tha Doss .'of the Firm. ' Th Wedding Gift Clock With tha 29 "Returned" Diamond Solitaires Set In Above the Face, to be ; Presented to the Bride of the . Lucky Thirtieth Man. : , " - . - LONDON. THE clock that . will tick the I time for the .married life of . Miaa Enid Wentworth "Engf-, land' loveliest stenographer' will, not tick the tima alone; it will tick the names ef the twenty-nin tweet heart Miai Wentworth Jilted before she won: the heart of their boss ! For set above the face of the clock will be twenty-nine solitaires, and - every time Miss 1 Wentworth looks np to tell the hour she will see the sparkle of those diamonds Tick! tocklTohn, Eddie, Paul " tick! tock! Percy, Harry, Pete--; tick I tockl Joseph. Francis, James -tick! tock r And so on, until the dock calls the roll of each of the twentynln -tnen who worked In the same office' Srith Miss Wentworth, who pot en Iraged to her one sight after the other, who all had their rings re tained, and who then, when she noonced her betrothal to the head of firm, pooled their rings and put them la the clock as a wedding present. - ; ' -, Miss Wentwoxth's clock will be a of unofficial acknowledgment that she the , world's . champion "office vamp, beauty who can truthfully say she la typists own Helen of Troy.! She Is -" I .... -. ., ' ... sort Is the only The Clock of the 29 Rejected her own age. . The first day he saw the "new stenog" his head Whirled. And it. did not stop whirling' until he had dug into ; his pocket for his bankbook and examined his balance care - fully. Tea pounds - and some odd shillingsenough 'for, a small diamond. - A glance, a word, tete-a-tete, by trip to ' the cinema, a Idss stolen- behind the filing eab lnet, and ho trick was done. Ths Rejected Ones Hare Decided to - Form An Arch of Honor-for the Bride and Groom ta Walk Under When They sheave tne cnurca. - uj i , k After the Wedding fAVl OyC 't : - M Pi twentr-sla but to ten Veara aba ateimrf- Twin r bops TOttevbrfdeb7of T. osaGiven to Mrs. FrjmkHn:t6-be, As a Loving Tribute froo the Miss Wentworth was only sixteen when - Men to Wnom She Said "No m sne nmaoea ner Dusmess course in nigh, school and fared forth In search of a job. There was not a man in her life then, so she says. There was only a dream. : And the dream was only of one Prince Charnv Ings certainly not thirty! ? r . In "the city, as London's business dis trict Is known," Miss Wentworth had no difficulty In getting a position. Not only , was she good-looking a peach-blown blonde of sparkling eyes and creamy com plexion but she was fast in dictation and a whizs on the keys. t It was part of office legend . In the big wholesalo house where trie went to work mat tne office manager., said of her: . "She's a splendid worker. And there's no foolishness about her. She doesn't flirt with the Ctlesmen. She sticks to er knitting." - When that iudrment !sras passed on Miss went worth she had been with . the firm three weeks and already she was in the throes of her i first ;ro : manee, She confesses, blushingly, that -it was with the head office boy He was a pink-and-vhite youth . of - about NX f ft "Bat 1 2ont like fights. Htf't your ring. Tommy... r -. - 1 ' " , ' , "Will you marry mtV breathed the stay talesman. ' "No," said Miss Wentworth. ' "' fBut I hare the ring;" begged the star talesman. "Then keep It for another girl, . ad vised Miss Wentworth, and wafted on. ' The star talesman kept the - tiag, hut not for another girL When Miss Went woxth's engagement finally was definitely announced to Mr. Franklin, head of the firm he added It with those of his fel lows to the clock's setting, - For. though Miss Wentworth never wore It, "she could have." said the star salesman, "so 2 think it belongs in the collection." As a girl who received and pondered In ten -var thlrtv nronA of tngTTlii ; gaged to them that X hadn't the heart to Miss Wentworth Is qualified to speak au turn them down." thoritatively on the sub ject of men. And jthe firm five years she was transferred : Some 4 of them propose with lona J from one department T to another. 'And" speeches, but most of them pop the ques fthere she' repeated her triumphs' Junior tion with no trimmings. : 4 , Clerks, elerks, ssJesmen managers aU "fl m9 -fty,-f.ji rtTt.- -rTir -. 0rt tlm r-T0 out with him Another , competeafo her favor, sU wat tempo- one waited for a year. He tried to pro i7 , rwwnci j ana ewa, m u ena oi dom-i aoien limes. DUt n would ffftt r xxancee, ua pius a The First of Miss Wentwortb's Thirty 'Romances Was With the Head Office Boy and Their . Engagement Was Cemented With a Stolen Kiss Bebind a Filing : . Cabinet r them a Was' minus dlamoaauirin "It! may sound like I was fickle, says Miss Wentworth. - "But that's Just the point-4-4 played falr When I was en ; f rixrhtened and chans-e the subleet. x r Only one man got down on his knees to roe, and he Is the man I am going to marry. ; Soma of the others leaned over and grabbed my hand. A few stood ua1 Exalte ZnS. Hi ZIm .;Uke.ibMlM going to be' shot at mnrls Enid Played Fair With All' Her ouitdrs. tvery Time She Broke . rr.7?. "JTv: .r." "r - ''I've been Drooosed to In cinema tl,- A 1111 I MX' tirilKlTB . ail W -- - - M 1 UHft. ' . - V changed them." - ; - ' Jt??y' on.to buset,.In iruuiHg KlOIlg VD9 An Engagement She Handed ick the Ring Before Aeceptix Another from the Next Man. uses me lung uerore Accepun i-ernaps teat is wny, wiw an ox Miss r.-.r. -.vV-i 1 . wwugn , . . . . . .j . . . trrttrlr. Mils T raA Hauint linn). .Mt In w enTwoixn s-rumances, an text so mue rr 7. " T. "V .u..u.,... Only, Ona Suitor, the Doss' of the vlffice, Proposed On. His ICnees. And Mils Enid Says He's the Only One of the Thirty e ylil Marry. Her first solitaire a wee one, but her own glowed on Miss Wentwoxth's ring finger.- ----- - w It glowed there only'a few weeks, how ever. : Another glance and a jealous, one, - another word and a tart word, an old fashioned quarrel behind the filing cabi net, fcftd the trick was laidone. : Miss . wentworth ttrlpped off the diamond and flan It back to the head office boy.. bitterness - and hard f eelinra - ranlrlin? Her first remaned Aflf 1600 tUu Won-. amons the victims of her charms.--Office otconip.ACTWtftlyherrainyimn, tee teWei th usimiBl ktIoM.lt. moch bimr Out iMu vui w .Aua onqa u0Tf aer type writer f every male id sight to succumb. ' j Miss Wentworth got engaged to the assistant file clerkand jilted him. ' Miss Wentworth got engaged o tbV file clcxk and jilted him. Miss Wentworth got en gaged to the ttcond assistant bookkeeper and jilted him. The first assistant book keeper and the bookkeeper himself fol- - lowed, all ever a period of three or four years. . : T : , , "I really didn't fvamp them, declares the fair stenographer nafvely. "Of course. i wasnt m love witK au of-them. nut they were such nice bors. And .thev begged so pitifully for me to become tjp went farther. Miss Wentworth, then, was engaged to the head bookkeeper. The etar salesman saw her and surrendered. He was a fast worker.' With true salesman's methods he decided tcrget the ring first and then get the girl. His only mistake' was la making a confidante of the very bookkeeper - to whom Mitt-Wentworth secretly jiral en gaged. r':-'-'i '.rr. Bruised feelings Immediately led to: bruised knuckles and bruised faces. Miss Wentworth cam upon the combatants in the hall as she started out for lunch. They separated and faced her ranting. "Are you engaged to this blighter demanded the star salesman. ..."I .ssJ tinted, ii p!atcriiu the midst ol writing an Important letter at the office. - -. - "The rings I've worn were of all sizes. was a little feliow not mldrt. I believe it thrilled me more, however,' than any ox the others, and a few of them were eigb-teen-earat solitaires that must have cost three hundred pounds. r 7 ' f I shall certainly value my clock. All the hoys were awfully sweet about it when ; I told them I really was going to be mar ried at last : This is one engagement I'm not going to break, h , . - s "Pm glad they took it so gently. Tie clock la a delightful surprise. I don't think they meant it to reproach me at alL I will keep It on the chlmney-pUee, and , every time I look at it I, will see a dia mond end think about one of th boys I used to be engaged to. I don't think tny husband will mind thai, do ;out. Afteg tU, U't tha cz to ci ZI vcerua, kzl sr roitunmii tuvu same xu, aa xut rtft v