The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-02-03
earned Dollar In Her Life Folks Wonder Popular Unrest
Mrs 3D. Gave $4,000 Mrs Mclean Never Earned Dollar
aus MARRIAos oLAea
ksneas City Friest Wants Young
People In Parish TO Wed

Kansas City, Mo, Feb. 2.-MarTla
yes may be made In heaven. but the
Rev. w. ]. Dalton of the Church OF
the Annunciation believes they are
facilitated by having branch matri-
monial agencies right here on earth.
In that belief he has established
such branch at his church at Lin
wood and Benton boulevards and at
the present time he has some fifty
couples in training for double har-
ness. and the branch has been open
only about a month.
Father Dalton, pastor of the
Church of the Annunciation is con
Quoting a matrimonial class openly,
frankly and under that very name
His object is to marry the young
people of his congregation and he
tells them So He doesn't insist
that John shall marry Mary or that
Jennie shall not marry William, but
he has told John and Mary and Jen-
ME and William and all the rest that
the quicker they get together and
settle it for themselves the quicker
they will be rid OF having him after
them with a sharp stick.
Father Dalton called the young
people together about month age
and told them what was what. lie
told them that any young man of "a
or "a who was making sos month
should take a wife and that any cir
of IS or 10 should take husband
Early marriages and large families
he told them, were to be the cardina
rules of a society he proposed t
: form. And he formed the societ.
right then and there and every on,
OF the young men and women pres
ent was enrolled as member OF
! the spot
) The guide is a month old now, ha
= membership of about 100 ant
meets every week. There have beef
! no marriages yet and Father Daltol
e doesn't want them yet. At presen
g he's delivering weekly lectures OF
matrimony, on buying furniture, o.
S cooking, on saving money, on real
Ell ing children, and on counting. Her
j are some OF Father Dalton's views o
z. those subjects:
= The apartment house is destro!
# ing the American home. Our girl
a and boys are reared in these rented
r steam heated, furnished by contraC
l. quarters and grow up without know
II ing the struggle and JOY OF buildin
a real home.
d mo home is a home that support
y corner drug store, corner baker
Ie and a corner cleaning and dyeing e
n adjustment. You will see those pl
o. ces scattered through the residenS
d, sections over all Kansas City, al
10 they tell the story OF the model
home and how it is run. Our mot
s. ers baked their own bread and clea
le ed their own clothes and their on
idea OF drug store was a place
ty buy drugs when necessary-som
he thing the corner drug store OF todi
e- scarcely deals in, understand.
IL The object OF the guild-and "
may call it a matrimonial class
ed you wish, for that is what 1t is
Is to teach the young people OF {
to Church of the Annunciatlon that Il
be is all wrong, and that they are L
doing their duty TO society in
- naming single and that they are
viting want and unbappiness In
II age.
Il am getting on, think. ! mott
. that where they used to come in bl
| ches they now come in couples.
III While the matrimonial class "
Il instituted chiefly to serve the ChuT
OF the Annunciation, Father DAFT
u says the latch string is out for a
who are looking tor helpful hints.