page_title: Philip Cone Fletcher
hierarchical_section_title: Philip Cone Fletcher
caption_attribution_description: English: Newspaper layout including photo of the Reverend Philip Cone Fletcher and imaginative drawings by journalist Marguerite Martyn based on his ideas concerning courtship and romance, 1909. Includes a sketch of Dan Cupid.
context_page_description: Philip Cone Fletcher was the presiding elder of the San Antonio district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
  He received wide notice for advising girls and young women to use beauty aids if they wanted to. He also suggested that "courting places" be set aside for men and women to become acquainted with each other. In St. Louis, Missouri, these stances resulted in the revocation of an invitation to take over the pastorate of a church, so he went to Texas, where he remained.
context_section_description: Philip Cone Fletcher (1870 - 1931)  was the presiding elder of the San Antonio district of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
  He received wide notice for advising girls and young women to use beauty aids if they wanted to. He also suggested that "courting places" be set aside for men and women to become acquainted with each other. In St. Louis, Missouri, these stances resulted in the revocation of an invitation to take over the pastorate of a church, so he went to Texas, where he remained.
caption: Photo of Fletcher and imaginative drawings by journalist Marguerite Martyn based on his ideas. Dan Cupid looks on from top left.
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