Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — MATRONS’ “CUPID WINGS CLUB.” [ARTICLE]

MATRONS’ “CUPID WINGS CLUB.”

A Movement to Hove Separate Churcfees (or Men and Women. The Cupid Wings Club, a noted organization of young matrons, who make the mending of broken hearts a specialty, has started ~a movement to have separate churches for mesa and women, the New York Evening Telegram’s Trenton (N. J.) correspondent says. The club members believe the presence of the gentler sex keeps many men from church. They believe also that if there were separate churches the& would be a slump in the church attendance of women. Mrs. William D. Hamill, chairman of the committee on domestic happiness, has prepared an Interesting paper on tha subject. In part she says: “The young men ‘sneaked’ in as though they were burglars. As soon as the close came I noticed that some of the younger men became uneasy. I came to the conclusion that they were fearful lest they should not be able to make an exit before they were surrounded by the female members of the congregation. The way many of the men tried to get out seemed like dashes for liberty. They did not stop for a moment at the church entrance, but ‘marathoned’ in either direction. “I was sorry for one young man caught in the blockade. He was the picture of embarrassment. He must have heard such expressions as ‘Nellie is wearing last year’s hat,’ ‘I heard that her husband was brought home by a policeman last night,’ ‘That spiteful thing—she thinks she looks pretty,’ ‘Who is that young man? His suit does not fit him,’ as I was near him and listened to these statements and much other gossip. ‘This is a subject the club is going to give particular attention to, because there would be a great deal more happiness in homes, fewer divorces, less vice and misery if more men went to church.”