Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1915 — Appeals to Women of England To Wed Maimed War Heroes. [ARTICLE]

Appeals to Women of England To Wed Maimed War Heroes.

London, Oct. 13.—4:53 p. m.—The Rev. Ernest Houghton, a Bristol rector, has started an appeal to patriotic women of the nation to give their lives to ameliorate the condition of maimed -heroes of the war by marrying them. The rector contends that the exampel of France shows that unions thus arranged promise i greater happiness than is customary from the Methods in England. Strict secrecy is promised as to the identity of women prepared to immolate themselves after the plan of the league until the arrangements for their marriage are complete.