Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 281, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1910 — MEN UNFIT TO WED [ARTICLE]

MEN UNFIT TO WED

So Declares Memphis Beauty Who Divorced Philadelphian. Mrs. Keith Donaldson Compares Northern Man With Those from South, Especially Texans— Foreigners Inferior. New York.—Mrs. Keith Donaldson, at the ripe age of twenty-four years, will never, no, never, marry again. She says so herself. The ideal man does not exist, she declares, and until he is produced she will devote herself to the care of her child, the accommodating courts of Reno having relieved her of her husband, a former Philadelphian. Two years of married life have taught her the wisdom of the ages, and no man need apply, unless —yes, there’s a string to the declaration. There is a chance for a Texan. “For,” says the lovely divorcee, “my fortune came from the great and glorious state of Texas, and if the same state can produce a man handsome, strong, chivalrous and steady, I may be prevailed upon to change my mind.” Mrs. Donaldson was Miss Evelyn Willis Hunter of Memphis, Tenn. A great beauty, she was much soughtl- - in every city, but the dashing Philadelphian carried off the “million dollar bride,” and the wedding took place in New York, April 25, 1906. The couple went to live at the St. Regis. Differences arose between the young pair, and a separation followed. came the divorce, and Mrs. Donaldson went abroad. She has just returned, with her views of men unchanged, and, if anything, more firmly rooted in her mind. It was rumored that she was engaged to Robert Dula, but this she denied emphatically. “Why,” she declared, “he is only nineteen, just a nice boy, and the brother of my friend, Mrs. Townsend Horner. I shall never marry again. “I returned froni abroad the other day, where I met several men, but none approached my ideal of what a husband should be. “When abroad I studied the continental gentleman and found him away back in the field when it comes to racing with southerners—and especially Texans. He does equal northern men, though, I must admit, but the northern men, either easterners or westerners, are not fitted to be husbands. I think every northern father should send his son south for a finishing education In gallantry. He will learn much that will make him fitted

to compete with the hundreds of foreigners who come here to New York and break Into the families of the rich.”