The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-05-29
FAIR ONES SAY MAN |S MORAL COWARD Girls StoutIy Deny Indict- ment of Extravaganza ANNISTON GIRLS IDEA Says That Man Should Shave Him. self and Then He Would Have
 Enough Money to Get
 Married
ANNISTON GIRLS IDEA

Houston, Tex. May 2S.-(Special )--Half the young women of Houston and many other cities of the United States are of the opinion that the same ratio of men arc towards. They place no restrictions on vicinity, but the 30 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 shirl<ing a Christian duty.
 | Recently Rev. Sam Hay of St. Paul s church of Houston propounded to 10 young
 men of Houston the question: "Why do you not marry?" In return some very loriginal replies were received, the major | fly deploring their financial condition or
 the extravaganza of the present day giri. | These criticisms the girls took to heart
 and handed out some straight opinions
 concerning the moral courage of the op- lposite sex and they demanded these re-
 plies be read from the same pulpit the youths criticisms were commented on. Dr
 Hay complied and now Houstons unmar- ried circles are considerably shaken up. One young man who said he could not support wife and himself on his salary of $6O per month was given a straight shot by young woman who told him to get a better job and he would become a bet ter citizen. Another fair correspondent declared if she loved him she would wed him whether he were earning $60 or $500 per month. The young man is now seek Ing the address of this young woman.
 All the mass of letters from the young ladies did not come alone from Houston girls. The criticisms of the young men were widely printed over the country ana some very original. straight from the shoulder shots came in from surrounding states. But all these correspondents with their Houston supporters refused to &C., cept the indictment of extravaganza. Tn turn they charged the young men with un- necessary luxures and declared a man on a small salary should shave himself and polish his own shoes. Twenty cents a day saved from this source, an Anniston, Ala, girl writes, will keep him in clothes.
 One young man complained that all the girls he knew were society girls and knew nothing about home, which he wanted. A Knoxville, Tenn, fair correspondent retorted that half the young men don't appreciate a home when they have one and prefer the club. She said they were too inconsistent.
 Apropos of the criticism of one young man who said mothers of the present day are teaching their daughters to look for the fellow with the coin," a Sioux Falls, s. D. girl writes to warn the women of Houston against rich husbands. She says they are delusion and can not offer the love that a poor man is capable of She added she had some experience. Dr. Hay is undecided as to the advisability of glv- ing out the name of this correspondent to the several applications.
 One fair writer from Fort Wayne, Ind. who signs herself "Old Maid" absolves herself of all blame for being in the single state. q haven't found the man I want yet, she said, but when I do whether he Is earning $50 or $500 month I'll wed him. The latter task, she said, is the smaller of the whole.