Sighing Dutchman

After the dreary hours of sea and nothingness the village on the County Clare coast looked like a picture post card. The heart of young (22), romantic Dick Bergman, flying home to Holland from America, was filled with a deep yearning for Kilkee. Bergman soulfully wrote to Kilkee's town clerk to find him a Kilkee wife.

The response was heartwarming, largely because Eire's women often weary of waiting for Eire's frugal swains to propose.* Sixty colleens offered themselves as Bergman brides. To choose among them was more than the town clerk dared. So on Feb. 14 the Kilkee town commissioners will put all the names in a hat. The lucky girl will get first chance at writing to the sighing Dutchman.

The Hollander's enterprise has also prodded lagging Kilkee lovers. Reported Mrs. Kay Haugh, village postmistress, last week: "Since Dick Bergman wrote for a Kilkee girl many young bachelors, courting for years, have proposed."

* Some two-fifths of Irishwomen are unmarried at the ages of 30-34, and a fifth of all Irishwomen never marry at all.

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