Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-01-20 | Page 6 | The Encouragement of Matrimony

THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF MATRIMONY. A small town just outside of London Lon-don is coming to the front with a scheme for the encouragement of such as stand "trembling on the brink" of matrimony. It originated with the rector of a church who has hanging on his church porch a list of such of the village spinsters as were willing to change their estate. Opposite each name was set the amount of yearlv income by her considered absolutely lndispenslble for safe and sane housekeeping. house-keeping. The rector declares that men nowadays hesitate to marry because be-cause they've no idea just what their own particular "she" would be willing will-ing to marry on; whereas many a girl could and would be glad to keep house on less than he would dare to expect. By means of this "bridal record" re-cord" all such misgivings are immediately immedi-ately set at rest and a young household house-hold may be firmly established on a sound, well-understood finanoial basis. At last accounts there were but half a dozen names enrolled, slie who headed it Insisting on the modest sum of 150 pounds as the necessary yearly income But the season anil the record are still young and the rector has high hopes of the efficacy of his little bulletin, meeting censure and criticism with at least a dozen good reasons why. One bright objector to the rector who has evidently studied it with a view to its utility in her own case-gives case-gives her reasons against as follows: "Just now I shouldn't dream of a prospective husband with less than 1000 pounds a year, but who knows how I should feel about it in five ten or twenty years? Should I want he who runs to read that In 1916 an income of 900 pounds would tempt me' And should I on public record be satisfied 'In 1929 with the 150 pounds of the widower with six children: child-ren: K. H. in New York Times.