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Show PLANNING HOME FOR MOTHERLESS BOYS Archbishop Mundelein Announces Purchase Pur-chase of Tract of Land and Object of PluUantlirophy. CHICAGO, Aug. . Tn an effort to cut down the number of widowers who, "becoming panic-stricken upon the death of their wives, remarry immediately immedi-ately merely that their children might be cared for," Archbishop Mundelein of the Chicago diocese of the Catholic church today purchased a large tract of land ujion which he plans to erect a home for motherless boys. In explaining the purpose of the home, the archbishop told of the result re-sult of his persona observation of the circumstances surrounding .18,001") marriages mar-riages during the fourteen years he was chancellor in Hrooklyu. "1 was struck by what was a frequent fre-quent occurrence in the daily life of our cities," he said. "A good, sober, steady man with a small fixed salary would get married and perhaps alter a few-years, few-years, while the children were young, his wife would die. The poor man, not wanting to put the children in an orphanage, or-phanage, would become practically panic-stricken and would marry the first woman he met, just to have some care for his children." |