Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1919 — TOUGH LUCK, MEN; WORLD SHORT ON EDUCATED WIVES. [ARTICLE]

TOUGH LUCK, MEN; WORLD SHORT ON EDUCATED WIVES.

Another world demand whicjjS.the war has rendered greater than the available supply is for educated wives, according to reports from foreign missionaries received by the inter-church world movement of North America. “The demand,” says a statement issued at the inter-church headquarters at New .York, “is particularly great in the orient and Africa, where millions of men have returned from the armies of the allies after having a glimpse- of occidental marriage relations and found them desirable. “According to one missionary’s report a young Moslem sheik offered to pass up the four native wives allotted to him by the Koran if-the missionary would bring him an educated American to share his camel’s hair tent.”