Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1917 — CO-EDS SPURN SMALL INCOME [ARTICLE]

CO-EDS SPURN SMALL INCOME

Wouldn’t Marry Man Who Gets Less Than $1,500 a Year, Girls Say. If any of the gay young Lotharios or Romeos of this bustling and enterprising village have designs on the charming co-eds at th eUni versify of Omaha, they are warned to look to their check books. Big, black eyes, pompadoured locks, glistening white teeth and neatly manicured nails don’t cut any ice with the Omaha co-eds. An income of at least $1,500 annually is the first inducement bachelors with an inclination to leap into the matrimonial sea with an Omaha co-ed must make. So the co-eds answered Prof. Harry De Lamatre, instructor in economics, when he asked them what they considered a suitable salary for a man who is going to be married, says the Omaha Bee. When De Lamatre said he believed an income of SI,OOO a year was quite sufficient from an economical standpoint, the fair young things burst forth with a simultaneous shout of protest and Incredulity. “Who would want to live on that?” they demanded. The Omaha don’t demand luxurious limousines, birds of paradise for their hats, ermine coats or bejeweled shoe?, but they insist it takes sl,500 a year to keep a home going. Upon hearing the views of their fair schoolmates the boys at the university promptly held an indignation meeting and decided to boycott . what they called the extravagant co-eds and find aren’t filled with “highfalutin” ideas.