Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1913 — Bachelors Beat Their Studious Sisters’ Snare [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Bachelors Beat Their Studious Sisters’ Snare

BOSTON, MASS. —There was a stump of 210 points in the shares of marriage preferred on the local matrimonial exchange the other day when the state legislature decided against imposing a tax of |5 a year on all unmarried men more than thirty-five years of age. There Is a great deal to be done yet before the matter is straightened out, as the state is said to have several thousand dollars in |5 bills sent in by men who believed the announcement of the bill meant its passage. Boston bachelors, at any rate, were not disposed to take any chances. Boston girls are famous the world over just as are girls of every'other city; only the others are famed for being beauties. In consequence there has been a long sustained era of consternation among unmarried men which gate way to a sigh of relief that resembled an ocean breeia. Boston banks had been forced to place orders with the national treasury for (extra bales of |5 bills, but suddenly

the cigar stores were almost stalled by the demands for change. It Is rumored now that while the bill was introduced in the legislature at the instance of a woman, behind it were grafters who wanted a bigger bank account for the commonwealth. The scheme had great possibilities had it not' been that the speaker of the house was an unmarried man and ruled out of order every member who wished to speak In favor of the measure. A well-known bachelor clubman, asked the other night if he had been frightened, replied: “Oh, no. Money means nothing to me.”