The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-01
THY WANT HUSBANDS
Girls in Hoboken, New Jersey,
Have a Prayer
ASKING MEN TO BE SENT
One Girl Gives Her Views on
the Subject.
ASKING MEN TO BE SENT

Husbands of the right kind are needed
in Hoboken. and the young women OF
st. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
have completed a nine days period of
prayers that lords and masters may be
sent to them.
Rev. Father McAvoy, pastor of the
church. had viewed with alarm" as a
campaign orator would say. the fact that
in the last two or three years the num-
Der of marriages had fallen of to a
startling extent. He noticed that the
young women and the young men did
each other and that the church lacked in
social activities.
Whereupon the priest delivered SER
mons upon matrimony
There must be- said he, more mar
rying in this parish. 1t is not good for the
young men TO live alone, or for the wo-
men alone, for that matter. The church
viii lose influence without homes
1T is not not fault said the young
women, we are willing TO marry if the
right men will ask US, but where are the
eligibles?''
Rev. Father McAvoy reminded them
Of the efficacy of the prayer. and as a
result there was novena held, at which
the young women offered up their sup
plicatiOns for husbands of the right kind.
In each case the ideal of a husband
was different, yet there was in the minds
of the fair petitioners the thought that
there was no place better adapted for
,,ra,rar for tl,a iooraasioor Of M +-fr7o0pial
prospects than the shrine of St.Joseph,
patron saint of matrimony.
1t is expected that by June there will
be several weddings. although at present
the young women are keeping their own
counsel. There is no doubt of the fact
however. they prayed without ceasing
at St. Joseph's church. They have with
them small leaden images of st. Joseph
concealed in their pocketbooks. They are
enclosed in tiny leaden cylinders and
carried as charms to bring about the
wishes Of the petitioners husband Of the
right kind.
Rev. Father McAvoy took a deep in
terest in the attendance of the young
women, and it is said that the reverend
secretly gave advice to the
young men that they should try to live
up to the ideals of the women.
The priest is encouraged over his cam
paign, and when the period of roses is
at hand it is likely that he win have
reason to feel still more satisfied as to
the results of his advice.
There are different ideas entertained
by the young women Of the parish as to
what a husband should be, but in each
case there seems to be the opinion that
he should be generous and unselhsh and
well enough settled in life to give to his
helpmate a comfortable income.
Some of the young women do not OBJ
jet TO riches and others would prefer
a poor young man who has energy and
brains.
There are a few of the girls who are
said TO have a matinee husband in mind,
and others who would prefer to have
a husband who owned less of good looks
than a devotion to the interests of the
women whom he would make his wife.
All agree they would prefer to marry
a man who would make his wife liter
ally his partner. They share the views
Of one of them. who said:
When two persons have the same OBJ
ject in life and when the wife is in
sympathy with the thoughts and aspira-
tions of the husband I think that there
is a marriage which is worthy of
name. That is the kind which brings !
happiness TO husband and to the wife !
Then there can be nothing which viii !
disturb the peace Of home. A husband |!
who is interested in the thoughts and |
the aspirations of his wife is as near
perfection as it is possible for man to |
be-
such a man win be generous and un- /
selfish. for ne always considers the other /
partner of the firm. He viii court his /
wife to the end of their days. for the /
memory Of early struggles against ad- /
rersity win always keep aglow the lamp
II love. The may who I may marry may 4
be poor. yet he be the possessor of a /
stout heart and brain quick to turn ev-
Try point to his advantage, I mean to our I
advantage. I would have no fear Of the /
future"