Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 311, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1910 — Silk Socks Foe to Matrimony. [ARTICLE]

Silk Socks Foe to Matrimony.

Tha the desire of young men to decorate themselves in sartorial finery is the prime cause why many fall to place their necks under thb yoke of matrimony, is the assertion of JRev. Samuel Hemphill, a distinguished Irish clergyman. “It seems that the young men of today,” says Dr, Hemphill, “prefer patent leather shoes and spats and a fortnight’s ‘swelling’ about a watering place, or a game of billiards at a club every night, to the delights of family life. Their wages, in most cases, will not permit both the sartorial adornment and some sort of a club and a wife, so they go in for flashy clothes and let a lot of sweet girls pine out their lives In maidenhood. Better the love of a sweet "Wife than air the silk socks and gaudy waistcoats in the world." '