The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-09
Peabody Girls Who Want Hus-
bands Overwhelmed.
DeIuge Of letters From Wife
Seekers Pour in Upon Them.
THEY ARE NOT SO SURE
Several Say That Home TOwI
Boys viii Do.
Send Out ~Requirements" to
the Many Applicants.

Peabody, Kan, Feb. $50 numer-
Gus have become the requests for
wives to the young women of Peabody
that a meeting of the twenty-three
girls who protested against the at
tempted robbery about to be perpe-
trated by the girls club in Sweden,
that a set of requirements was neces-
sary. william E. Peyton, editor of the
Peabody Herald, who printed the pro-
test of the young women, has received
more than fifteen hundred letters from
men-bachelors and Misunderstanding
for wives.
Those letters have been turned over
to Jeanette, Mabel, Mabel Helen,
Mae, Mildred, Lena, Pearl, Elsie,
Edna, Olive. Alice, Esther, Eileen,
Helen, Ruth, Beulah. Lena, Ethel.
: Dasie, Lulu, Anna, Edna and Lura and
some have taken their choice and
started correspondence.
Must Not Be Too Nice.
But with each reply is sent q list of
the requirements which the man must
meet to be the husband of the girls.
The requirements are as follows.
Men to be our husbands must know
how to do the chores and to kiss. He
must permit US to check on his bank
account and take US to the nickel thea
ter at least three times each week.
There must not be any complaint
about the cooking except, of course,
that the husband would like. We do
not want sissies; we want men with
red blood in their veins. We don't
object to a man taking a drink once
in while and he might stay out to
lodge meetings a. little late some
nights. Our husbands must not be
angels; we are not. Of course, we
want to go to church sometimes and
we went husbands who will know how
to act if they are asked to go. We
aren't hard to suit but too many
angels have written to us; we fear
them.''
who the young ladies believe is eligible
from the first letter Then maybe
other letters follow.
Miss Jeanette Mansfield clerk in
the postoffice and whose name heads the
list of professors against the Swedish
girls, was busy sorting mail when re-
porter saw her this morning.
mo, l haven't found a husband VET -
she replied very emphatical1y. We've
had worlds of fun out of those poor men
who just can't get wives, but we aren't
worrying much. There are lots of nice
boys right here in Peabody and we don't
like to admit that we are too slow to
get them. OF course, we signed pro
test against the Swedish girls but that
was only a move to protect home indus
tries We're against the mail order
houses and we like to boost for Peabody.
Men Can't Write
Why, do you know that three-fourths
to be their wives can't write so we can
read it? Think we want man like that?
We are busy girls who haven't time to
spell out long love letters
Miss Mabel Jackson, second on the list,
works in SWANS store just a few doors
north of the postoffice
rs this Miss Jackson?'' a reporter
asked.
TT is
Have you obtained a husband yet?"
mo, and l don't know as I want any,
she replied just as if the stranger was
about to ask further questions like that.
Miss Jackson was convinced that the
boys of Peabody were mighty fine young
men but she said she was willing to take
q chance on q mail order man if he could
meet her requirements, which one might
understand, are quite severe. She says
she almost is a ''manhater.'
Miss Mabel Helen Carson, third on the
list, works in Haupt's jewelry store just
a few doors farther up the street. She
said she hadn't written to single man
yet and she didn't know whether she
would or not.