Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1917 — High Cost of Courting. [ARTICLE]

High Cost of Courting.

Rev. Dr. W. Wofford T. Duncan says the high cost of courting must be curbed or there will be a decrease in marriages. In the good old days, the doctor says, when a man courted a girl, he occasionally brought her flowers or a box of candy and she was satisfied. But the modern girl, h& says, collects gifts from her male admirers as if these gifts were the premiums of an advertising concern. "There is a decided mercenary streak in many a girl of today,” deciares Doctor—Duncan. “She not only allows, but expects, the voting man of the period to spend on *■ -■ , • - her and for her much more than he can-afford. Even thein ercenary -spirit is cropping up’ in small children,” says the good doctor. Only recently he heard some schoolchildren humming: "I should worry, I should care, I shouFd marry a milMqmyrepif he should die, I should cry—l should marry another guy.”—New York Times. _