WHERE WOMEN PROPOSE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2131, 24 April 1914, Page 5

WHERE WOMEN PROPOSE

According to some promineni people in Chicago tho women of that up-to-date city arc not content, liko tho rest of tho world, to let their future partners formally propose marriage, but aro actually "popping the question" themselves. Mr. John H. Mack, of the Marriage Licenso Bureau, ascribos tho 15 per cent, increase in the marriago rate to this cause. "My wife as much as proposed to mo," said Mr. Mack. "She showed me most distinctly that shn wanted to marry me, and that is what women aro all doing nowadays. They hustle the men into a proposal." Rev. M. P. Boynton, of tho Methodist Church, says:—"l think as soon as society is differently constituted, when people como to belicvo that it is woman's right to chooso and make known her choice, women generally will propose." Mr. Boynton added that ho had evidence that several hundred women now happily married had during the last few years done their own proposing. Mrs. Frank Streser-Reuter, a society leader, goes further, and says:—"Nine out of every ton marriages contracted in Chicago 'within the last fivo years were the results of women's proposals."