The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-04-28
C0WARDLY men
Do NOT PROPOSE
Texas Girl. Are Stirred up over the
Way the Young Men Have
Dodsed The Marriage
Question.
CHURCH MAKES PUBLIC
Pastor Started Something When He
Read From the Pulpit the First
Batch of Answers From
Bachelors.

HOUSTON, Texas, April IS. Halt i
the young women of Houston and ,
many other cities of the United States
same ratio of men are cow
ards. They place no restrictions
on vicinity, but the 80 per cent Of the
fair sex appear to be unanimous that
half the young men in the country
who don't ask some girl to wed them
are moral towards and shirking a
christian duty.
Recently Rev. Sam Hay of St. Pauls
church of Houston propounded to ten
young men of Houston the question
| why do you not marryg' In return
some very original replies were re-
ceived, the majority deploring their
/ financial condition or the extravaganza
of the present day girl.
4 These criticisms the girls took to
! heart and handed out some straight
opinions concerning the moral cour-
4 age of the opposite sex and they de-
4 manded these replies be read from
! the same pulpit the youths criticisms
were commented on. DR.. Hay com
! piled and now Houston's unmarried
i circles are considerably shaken up.
Il One young man VINO said he coulo
i not support a wife and himself on his
salary of $50 per month was given a
straight shot by young woman who
told him 10 get a letter job and he
would become better citizen. An
other fair correspondent declared IL
she loved him she would wed him
whether he were earning $50 Or $500
, per month. The young man is now
seeking the address of this young
woman
All the mass of letters from tht
: young ladies did not come alone from
!. Houston girls. The criticisms of thu
! young men were widely printed owe
the country and some very original
straight from the shoulder shots CAM
q in from surrounding states. But al
n these correspondents with their Hous
. ton supporters refused to accept tn
Indictment of extravaganza. In turl
f they charged the young men with III
necessary luxuries and declared ma
on a small salary should shave hin
self and polish his own shoes. Twer
ty-tive cents day saved from thi
source. an Admission, Ala. girl writes
, will keep him in clothes.
One Young man complained that a
N the girls he knew were society girl
and knew nothing about hom
which he wanted. a Knoxville, Tenn
fair correspondent retorted that ha
10 the young men don't appreciate
to home when they have one and preft
a. the club. She said they were too \
IN consistent.
Apropos of the criticism of OF
,r- Young man who said mothers OF Il
Sc present day are teaching the
n daughters to look for the fellow vii
ed the coin a Sioux Falls. S. D., 81
n writes TO warn the women OF Hou
cs ton against rich husbands. She sa,
he they are delusion and can not off
OK the love that a poor man is capab
10, Of She added she had some expe
.b- ience. DR. Hay is undecided as to q
es advisability of giving out the mar
es OF this correspondent to the sever
re applications
One fair writer from Fort Wayr
ed md who signs herself "oid Maie
ng absolves herself OF all blame for
at ing in the single state. 4 have
found the man want yet she sa
but when / do whether he is earni
$50 or $500 month III wed hin
The latter task, she said is the SIN
Ter OF the whole.