The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-03-21
Dollar Bankroll
 Big Enough To
 Get Married On?

Ncw sYork-Somebody's found a use for the dollar.
 The poor, shrunken dollar, almost lost in the shuff1e of high prices, has now come into it's own.
 Take dollar and get married,
 So advises Dr. William A Mo Keever, Kansas University professor Recurring now in Oklahoma.
 All a young man needs these days to start a matrimonial career is one good American dollar, willing hands and an alert brain.''
 Perhaps out there young couples can lasso roast beef and hIet mignor with one sweep of the lariat and cook same under the blazing Southwest sun Perhaps rooftrees are unneces- sary. Perhaps the pavements don't wear out shoes and the styles don't change, and neighbors don't have to be entertained However, Dr. Mo keever shall be answered in kind
 The college man of the West shall be laid low by the college woman of the East in this case, Dr. Aristine Pix ley Mum, dean of women at New York University.
 Don't" urges Dr. Mum.
 T would hate to marry a man on dollar and work up in the world with him." she continued.
 When bills come in at the door love Hes out the window, para phrases Dr. Mum.
 If Q couple started out with a dollar and it were put into the hands Of the wife to spend for necessities the husband would surely ask her: What did you buy with it
 sOh, Why did you spend so much 9
 What causes most unhappiness in marriage2
 Two things, and the foremost is money.
 First, let me say that among my work in Women's clubs many mem bers have come to me to confide their welded troubles.
 And have begun to wonder if there is a really happy marriage to- day.
 '<These are the main causes of dis pute- First, jeafousy-man's jealousy of 8 Woman,S ability to succeed in her particular field, whether the same as that of her husband or not.
 Second-and this question plays the more important role, as most men are unable to realize the tremendous rtsesin price of commodities and pro- vfsions-the matter Of finance in the home.
 ''Do~men ask where the money has gone? Only too often
 How soon after the honeymoon does the battle start about money :? As soon as the cash the bride brought from her own home has given out. she wants, either-nothing so inter est1ng as that. Merely a squabbIe about money for carfare.
 T know the case of the wife of a wealthy man who had charge-ac- counts in all the stores but who never handled a. dollar of her husbands money till the day he sailed across in the A E. E.
 If love in a cottage is so desir- aoie. why do we see so many desert ed Farms up in New York State?
 don't know much about life out In Kansas where pr. McKeever has formed these opinions, but I am sure that in New York City anyone will tell you that at least S1,0OO would be necessary to start housekeeping and rs-s---S -zo rent.
 Tn country places or small towns less might be well enough, $2Oo or
 To any resident of New York con- tempiating marriage on a single dol lar hasten to cry out, Dont'.''
 IT Dr. McKeever's plan comes into vogue 1t will establish a new stand ara or eligibility We may picture an anxious suitor rushing to his fiancee saying:
 At last-at 1ast-I have if and @ua need wait no longer. Your parents cannot fail now to give their con sent waving a. lovely S1 greenbaek Tn her astonished and pleased face
 But Where is young man to set a =ooffHr these days?