Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1916 — May Force Bachelors to Wed. [ARTICLE]

May Force Bachelors to Wed.

-Adding to the horrors or terrors of leap year, a man has proposed that bachelors and bachelorettes be compelled by law to marry, and that mating commissioners select mates for them by lot, a great deal as jury lots are drawn; the difference being that a man drawn for a jury can escape by telling a plausible story, but the bachelors elected for matrimony would have no escape. None but a bachelor would propose the method of drawing wives by lot. He ought to know that this marrying business is all a lottery, anyhow. The laws proposed to enforce this must-marry idea indicate the bachelor who thought them up considers that for a man to remain unmarried after he is thirty is a crime, while for a spinster it is “Miss-De-meanor.” —Exchange.