Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1916 — MUST CARE FOR MOTHER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MUST CARE FOR MOTHER

Clara Bishoff, twenty years old pretty, is looking for a husband who will provide for her mother. In desperate straits financially the girl says she will try to make the man who meets her requirements happy. Here are some of the qualifications: The man must be between the ages of twenty-three and thirty. He must earn at least SSO a week. He must, be gentle and kind. And above all he must provide for her mother. You might call all this a “husband advertisement” if you look at it one way, but Clara BishqfTs announcement means more than that. Twenty is not so very old when 1t comes to making * fair living for two. Here is a girl who tried to make a meager salary do the impossible. Yesterday she frankly admitted she had failed. r “For days 1 faced this.” the girt explained. “Can’t you see how hard It would be for any girl to conje to a public announcement that she wanted a husband? It was the hardest tiling I have ever had to do. But for moth-; er’s sake I mean to see it through now."