The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-25
MARRIAGE TO
Be STIMULATED
BY JNO. D. JR.
HE FORMS A SOCIETY WHICH
HAS AS IT'S MOTIVE THE Fos-
TERING or WEDDINGS AMONG
YOUNG COUPLES.
Special to The journal.


New York, Feb. 24.-Gentiemen who
are hyper-suspicious about everything
to which the name Rockefeller Is at
tached are curious about the purport
of the plan inaugurated here the other
day by John D. Rockefeller, Jr,
through his Bible class, to foster ana
stimulate marriage among young peo-
pie. Those who pretend to be psychic
divine say that it has something to 40
with accelerating the sale of oil and
of the hundred and one other by-pro-
ducts of Standard OIL including the
much discussed butter made from
kerosene. hailed as the greatest dis
covery of the age, next to Mark
Twain's patent corn cure.
Young Mr.. Rockefeller thinks that
the proper age for marriage Is be-
tween % and 26 years. After that the
man or woman who sidesteps Dan Gu
pid's darts is apt to get grouchy and
selfish and become intractable to the
responsibilities Of the married state.
Mr.. Rockefeller's propaganda IL pro-
claimed as a sincere desire to arrive
lem or marriage, to the end that MEM
bers OF the human family, who have
doubts as to its advantages. may come
to realization of It's desirabiIity.
The first of the meetings to propa-
gate the idea, held the other evening
under the personal supervision OF the
Oil Kings son. brought out the fact
that he has some notions about moth
er-ln-laws that are not altogether in
her favor. One Of the speakers sug-
gested that the best way for man
to guage the availability OF a girl as
a lie partner, is to judge her mother,
VINO the speaker said generally mouids
the character Of her daughter.
No! mol" cried Mr.. Rockefeller,
can judge her SO. 1t is, however, a
good thing to judge the girl herself by
her actions in her home, her treatment
of her parents, Of her brothers and
sisters, especially the younger and
smaller ones. In other words, do
believe it's good to judge a girl, so to
speak, before breakfast, while she is
still her natural self, without evening
fralls on. But you car scarcely pick q
wife wisely by picking your mother
in-law!"
And the married men present all
concurred.
Referring to the wages a man ought
to have on entering the hymenal gate
Orrin 9. Cocks, secretary of the Laity
for Social Service, who is Cooperating
with Rockefeller in his altruistic plan
OF encouraging matrimony, said:
L should say that 1t would be very
dangerous for man of. our class, of
the middle class, to marry on an in
come of less than 81, 900 or $1,000 a
year. Here in New York it is far
better to marry with health in the
early twentieE than to wait till the
money comes. Many articles of fur
niture can be acquired gradually and
slowly. To put OF marriage from time
to time results in those subtle selfish
influences that keep one from marry
Ing at all. Nothing SO well unites and
blends man and woman as mutual sac
rifce, mutual thought and mutual
planning.
II have many friends on the East
Side who marry on So a week. Many
men in New York, on the other hand.
rear that they cannot support a girl in
their own class, and are afraid to ask
her to deny herself comforts she is
used to. They might think otherwise
II they could have frank talks with
girls just so situated and see how
sacrifices"
He was opposed, he added, to late
marriages in that man is by that time
set IN his ways, and often inclined to
regard his business, social or club life
o. primary Importance, while women
after 20 years, he said, are less In
clined to dofnesticity. Mr.. Cocks then
spoke OF the need OF knowing ones
HAOSPOStaNo wire LhorOuSnly, instead OF
just falling in love with the young and
attractive 1t was hard, he said, TO
avoid this In New York, since men
and women meet mostly here at the
aires, parties and evening calls, where
their true selves are necessarily more
or less submerged.
Since girls character Is bound 70
De moulded in greatest measure by her
mother. ne continued, cant you pick
your wife betfAr nv IooLrius a%yn Jw.R1< a.
her mother rather than at the Rfri
herself?"
This Is where Mr.. Rockefeller took
exception to the mother-in-law. The
meetings are to be continued weekly
for an indefinite period.