The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-31
He FLAYS WOMEN
Green Says They Don't Know
Meaning of Marriage.
Eastern Type Does Not Appeal
to Hetty'S Son.
GETS NINE PROPOSALS TODAY
Kids Should Be Raised Like
Pups and Chickens.
Some Ashamed of Work Their
GrandmOthers Did.
GETS Nine PROPOSALS TODAY

ward HowlaBd Robinson Green, of Ter
rell, Texasf son of Wall streets fam
GUS Hetty Green, railroad president,
banker and bachelor, has arrived here
from the east. All of which is good
news, for Colonel Green has personally
heralded himself as the great hope of
the leap year girl and admits that he
has his big hearts strings well at
tuned for cupid's flashes.
She's to be a western girl, meaning
that if the leap year finds Col Green
with his matrimonial prize, she will
have come out of the west, free from
what the ccionel terms the follies of
eastern social life-a real type of west
ern womankind such as illustrator Har-
rison Fisher was eagerly hunting for
year ago in California.
A girl with a ''slashing head, well
poised on a good pair Of shoulders,
broad straight forehead, eyes well sep
arated, brown hair and rugged coun-
terance-a countenance that is not worn
by social cares, but is frightened by
accum ulating responsibilities of home
life.
I'm going to marry a woman, not a
clothes horse are Colonel Green's own
words. No tangled corset strings for
him. No continuous seasons of social
functions, late suppers and the like. lie
wants wife who can carefully mother
a family of children.
Add domesticity to Artist Fishers
type of western women and you have
the correct idea of Colonel Edward
Rowland Robinson Green's ideal.
Colonel Green is accompanied on his
present visit to San Francisco, the first
son, an attorney of New York and his
secretary, W. H. Marshal.
Looking Over Conditions
I'm here to look over conditions,
declared Colonel Green in response to
a query. Financial or matrlmonial?"
ventured his interviewer.
'.Both,'' loudly replied the colonel
Then he was asked about the report
about his reported purpose to leave
Texas and live in New York, and be-
fore he could reply the interviewer au-
ded:
And would that indicate that you
might make your matrimonial selection
from the east?'
say, young man. did you ever hear
of a Californian abandoning the west
for the east? -.
fornian. 1 belong to the west IeXas
New York women do not seem to
know the real meaning of marriage.
They marry for a home and live out
of it.
children Their Last Want.
sChildren are the last thing they
want. They are the very last woro OF
the useless.
and look fashionable they do not worry
a about domestic accomplishments
'eNone of them know how to cook or
sew. And holy horrorsl They deny
that their good old homely grandmoth-
ers knew how to wash clothes some OF
their grandmothers did wash clothes,
IF a fashionable New York woman
went up Fifth avenue with ring in
her nose the jewelers. could not furnish |
rings fast enough to supply the de- |
mand.
wives Seek other Men.
s.rrhev want to peaeock about restau-
rants and theaters for the purpose of /
being seen by men who are not their |
Colonel Green's idea of a wholesome |
woman is that her education should be |
more along domestic lines, and he quail |
ifies in saying:
''Women should marry with the idea |
of having children and caring for a
home.
chickens and healthy pups-where |
there is grass and plenty Of dirt.
"And there is plenty of grass and |
dirt in the West" declared the colonel |
He laughed merrily at the suggestion |
that the leap year may seal MS 1dte-
TT may said he. I'm but human.
If I should run across a woman I
thought fulfilled my ideas I'd marry |
her For al we know you may have !
that woman here. Texas is my home, |
but I have no dislike for your golden
state We're all Westerners''
Colonel Green will remain in San |
Francisco ten days or two weeks.
Nine Proposals Today.
His first day in San Francisco netted |
Colonel Green nine proposals of mar |
riage.
'sThey must have seen my ad' in the !
papers" the colonel told reporters who /
called on him today to learn what their
matrimony stories had developed
He Iaughingly pointed to one of the /
ads Colonel Green, heir to 100 mil |
lion dollars; retired president, cow
puncher, bachelor and 49,"
ssNfy!'' he exclaimed. that must look |
awfully good to lot of aspiring young /
women
Colonel Green refused to make public |
the names of any of the ambitious /
All the letters. he said. !
were serious in tone, and each writer /
declared she was really. truly west
err. girl - the kind he had declared in a /
New York statement that he preferred /
not the "cIothes horse of New York
the chameleon, called woman
The fact that woman suffrage has /
made such strides out here impressed /
the colonel as proving that the women
of the west We're better thinkers than /
their eastern sisters
They are a more virile type he
went, on They know how to accom-