MARRIAGE AND 1000 A YEAR.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 51, 1 March 1913, Page 3

MARRIAGE AND 1000 A YEAR.

Ten young women of Chicago, undcr the leadership of Miss Catherine Florence Falke, have organised “The £IOOO a Year Club.” Their membership, says the Standard’s New York correspondent, is open to any woman who will subscribe to the following provision : No member shall marry unless, after a full consultation of the Executive Board, it shall have been established that the family income will not be less than £IOOO a year, and that there is not undue restriction upon the wife in the dispensation of family resources. “One thousand pounds,” said Miss Falke, in an interview, “is the dividing line between a career and a living. American girls want careers. All can get a living. There are thousands of £IOOO men in Chicago. Our club is a sacrifice club. Every girl in it ought to have.a £2OOO husband. One thousand pounds a year will get a real social end for the business, a real girl who knows what is expected of her, and a real wife who will stick if the game goes wrong. There is no sense in the perpetuation of antiquated ideas about matrimony. Of course, we all fall in love, and equally, of course, wo all fall out again. ‘Time and tide wait for no man,’ and a woman has to run who overstays the tide. We all know that. But no woman should marry just because she is unmarried; no woman should buy a home with a lifetime of tears; no woman owes to humanity the sacrifice of her life, her soul, and her body for mere bread and butter, and no woman should be driven into matrimonial fetters because it was respectable for women to be married at 18 when her grandmother was a girl.”