Show HULL AID MARRIAGE I PACIFIC COAST BACHELORS FORM AFFINITY CLUB Scarcity of Maids Results In Society Which Plans to Import Women Organization to Pay Wedding Expenses Spokane Wash Designed to solve the problem of the scarcity of mar lagoable young women In tho Island empire the Spokane Affinity club has been organized In this city by 25 bachelors bach-elors under 30 years of nge The society proposes to bring 5000 young women into the Spokane country coun-try from tho eastern states find employment em-ployment for them and act as general sponsor When any of tho Imported young women Is convinced that she has found her soul tnate all marriage expenses will be borne by the club Including In-cluding the license tho ministers fee a wedding dinner and flowers J C Power Drown secretary of the Spokane mining brokers exchange Is president df tho new society Tho secretary and treasurer Is Wallace A iIcBurney vice president and manager man-ager of the Falls City Lumber company com-pany and tho manager of the society Is Cadwallader Jones manager of the United States Steel and Equipment company The membership Is drawn from the best circles of Spokane society As a member must have property of value greater than 1000 they are all eligible young men and entirely liable In case they find their affinity among the Importations Branches are to bd Instituted In every city and town ol more than 500 Inhabitants throughout the Inland empire Shortly after the organization of the club President Brown gave out the following statement The purpose of the club Is to induce in-duce young women to come Into this district There Is a scarcity of young women In the northwest and the inland In-land empire Is no exception I am not overestimating the fact when I say that 5000 women between tho ages ot 20 and 30 years could find good husbands hus-bands and comfortable homes In Spokane Spo-kane alone This may seem an extravagant ex-travagant statement In a city of nearly 100000 population but the fact Is that many more men than women have come Into the city during the last 18 months The first step In the campaign to bring young women Into the country will be to write to our friends and acquaintances ac-quaintances In the old homes In the middle western eastern southern and New England states and eastern Canada Can-ada urging them to come to the northwest north-west and then prevail upon thorn to write to their girl acquaintances In that way a chain system will be established es-tablished and the problem finally solved Any man between the ages of 26 and 40 Industrious and of good character char-acter and possessed of at least 1000 or Us equivalent In realty is eligible to membership In the club |