SCHOOL OF MATRIMONY.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1390, 25 March 1912, Page 4

SCHOOL OF MATRIMONY.

FIFTY COUPLES ENROLLED. Tin: Tiev. Mr. Dalton, pastor of a popular church in Kmi'us City, has formed a Gcliool of matrimony to increase the number of marriages in his parish (reports the New York correspondent of. the "Daily Ab.il"). Calling His young people of his concrcgation lu a church meeting recently, he announced that it was his opinion that any bachelor aged tivantyI'our year;, earning .£ls a. month, aiid any girl over eighteen years of age, ouelit lo marry, and ho intended they should. Ho forthwith formed a matrimonial club for that purpose and enrolled fifty couple-. To the present members tho pastor is now delivering weekly lectures on "Courting," "Buying Furniture." "Cooking." "Saving Money," and "Rearing Children," each concluding with an admonition to the effect that the sooner the fifty eoupk'.s assist themselves to embarlj on their matrimonial careers the better it will be for them.' The "K'iowa County Signal." of the nfichlymrins town of Green?burg, h:is published, as a guide for spinsters dos'ring to tnk" i'.dvnntice of Ijoan Y'ear a directory of eligible bachelors of the wnimnnity, seltiu? forth their (|ualiiications. Tho list includci a tradesman with pos-n-s<ious rated at .540..000 and the nre-i----dent of a farmer-' bank with ,C."O,(!fr'l. and reveals several farmers owning many liioiisasul acre.-;, and one with .CIO.OOQ and two motor-cars.