Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — Penalties of Being a Bachelor. [ARTICLE]

Penalties of Being a Bachelor.

The ancient Romans were severe with their bachelors, who were made to pay heavy fines; and worse than that, Camlllus, after the siege of Veil, Is recorded to have compelled them to marry the widows of the soldleTs who-had fallen in war. In the"time of Augustus, married men were preferred for public office. The Romans who had three children were exempted from personal taxes, and the bachelors had to pay them. Plato condemned single men to a fine, and at Sparta they were driven at certain times to the Temple of Hercules by the women, who castigated them Ip true military style. In the French settlements of Canada women were sent over after the men, and the single men, that they might he forced to marry, were subjected to a heavy tax and to restrictions on their business and their movements generally. ■»: