Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1911 — Would Give Away Missouri Bachelors [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Would Give Away Missouri Bachelors

JEFFERSON CITY, MO.—John H. Burgin, representative from Gentry county and father of 15 children, announced that he would organise a free matrimony bureau for the purpose of disposing of the bachelor members of the legislature to Cole county girls. "I got married early,” said Repreeent&tlve Burgin, "and I know from experience that it’s worth the money. The man who plods along without a ’wife ought to be arrested as an uniteJl TRIM'S- . '

sirable citlren. And the girl who qan charm a young man and falls to wed him is not worthy of a husband. “Now, I have made ten matches, and every ono turned out Just as ordered* I am one of the happiest men to be found in this country, and it is just because 1 had brains enough to get married. I have 15 children, and am not too modest to admit that It Is the best brood of its sixe I know of. “Now, about this bachelor business again. If I had my way I’d make every bachelor marry. And there ought to be a way to punish those girls who toy with the affections of man. This not only takes up a fellow’s time, but It has a tendency to make him lose faith in women, sad that is the cause at much of this terrible bachelorhood."