Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1916 — If You Earn $1,600 Yearling And Can Dance, You’re Eligible. [ARTICLE]

If You Earn $1,600 Yearling And Can Dance, You’re Eligible.

Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 25. —The Minnesota Daily, the student newspaper of the University of Minnesota, which had asked the women students of the institution the question, “How much salary must a man receive before you would consent to marry?” today received replies ranging from SBOO to SIO,OOO a year. Most of the girls were conservative in their demands, however, and the general average, based on early replies, is about $1,600. One girl wrote, “What is money to me! Give me a true, loving husband and a cottage.” A large majority of the girls demanded that their future husbands be good dancers, some said they must know the “latest steps,” and one went so far as to say she would marry only a man who was a “dreamy dancer.” Smoking would be permitted, even demanded, by a large number of the girls, but drinking would be prohibited, and those who advocated card playing say bridge should be substituted for .poker, although one girl concedes her future husband one night a week for the latter game.