Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1912 — SPURN FARM LIFE [ARTICLE]

SPURN FARM LIFE

Women, as a Rule, Refuse Riches to Live in City. Kansas City Priest Finds That Wealthy Farmers Are Not Desired by the Fair Sex as Bridegrooms. Kansas City. - Money, comfort, fresh air, good things to eat —such things are not sufficient to tempt marriageable American women away fronr the cities. Most of them prefer torn arry city men, even if they are poorer providers. That conclusion has been reached by Rev. Father William J. Dalton, pastor of the Annunciation Catholic church here, after reading the letters of 6,452 persons who desire to marry, and have written to him for help. Father Dalton attracted attention a few months ago through a “school of matrimony” he established in connection with his church to encourage marriage among the young people of his parish. “The only women who express a willingness to marry farmers are elderly women who find • themselves alone In the world.” Father Dalton said. “But the farmers who ask for. wives are younger men and they do not want to marry such women. “One man who wrote to me owns three big farms; another , has 650 acres of fine farm land, and a third

farmer showed mo that he had $75,000 in the bank. “Can you tell me why it is that a woman will not felve a proposition like

that a minute’s consideration, but will choose instead some struggling bank clerk in the city who lives from hand to mouth?”