The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1917-03-08
PAGE FIVE

How else could we start the ball rOllinG2
unless you introduce us to one another. as
who should say, "Heres young gentleman
fishing for love: bring up the young ladies'"
Keena adde's these particulars:
In addition to filing out this blank don't be
afraid to write us letter Of instruction, telling
what you desire, etc, and we will gladly attend
to the matter. All letters will be held strictly
confidential
Send $500 in payment of our Membership fee
(Six months membership $1,000 Address all
letters, and make all remittanCes payable to Ed
ward B. Keena, or to the Catholic Correspondence
Club, 243 Sycamore St. Grand Rapids, Mich.
Don't be afraid to let Keena know that you
want to marry handsome woman, with u
good figure, angelic disposition, sprightly in
tellect, and pot of money.
Keena sends a circular letter along with
the blank application, and [ quote few
clauses from it, to whet your appetite for
membership in the Catholic Society, where
you pay $500 and have first pick at a number
of available candidates for matrimony.
He says:
We accept none but Catholics as members and
ii You are one of us in faith interested in this
matter, and really looking for good practical
Catholc for life companion, there is no reason
why you should hesitate but fill out the
closed APPLICATION BLANK and enroll your
self of members
We trust that you will avail yourself Of this
opportunity of becoming acquainted with humid
reds of good Catholics residing in all sections of
the country with whom you will be placed in
correspondence at once
This Club is formed for the sole purpose Of in
PRODUCING Catholic and women who feel
themselves called to the married state A great
many forget that the call to the married state,
like the call to the religious life, comes from
God, and that they must rely upon Him for all
that tends to make the state happy. For a
Catholic to be happy in that state it is of
necessary should choose a Catholic
a life partner.
There is no law of the Church reasonable
than that forbidding mixed marriages. no law
more helpful for happiness
Some Of our eloquent, far-seeing priests
decrying the prevalence of bachelorhood and
spnsterhood Of the present day. Marriage is a
fitting state in life, and it is sorry sight to see
an old bachelor cooking his supper sewing
on buttons He seems to be msfit in the order
of things. He is in the house, but not at home.
Likewise is the fair bachelor girl out of place in
her club den.
All, these eloquent, far-seeing priests de-
crying the prevalence of bachez0lh0od"
Decrying it and adding to it, at the rate
Of thousands Of new priests every year.
And to every dozen bachelor priests, two
dozen spinsters are necessary locked behind
convent bars
can old bachelor cooking his own sup
per!'
''It is a sorry sight"
Indeed it is, but not nearly so sorry q
sight as to see a priest seated in his house.
with his buxom house-keeper on his knee as
per the Bishop Paul's case, referred to else
where in this paper.
Keena says-"Likewise is the fair bachelor
girl out of her place in her club or den"
That's fact; hence, the Veazey law, whose
purpose is to invite the fair bachelor girl to
come out of her den, and place herself among
the free, in the sunshine, outside the convent
den.
The most brazen element of priestly ar
rogance. and the most astounding feature Of