Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — Still on the Statute Books. [ARTICLE]

Still on the Statute Books.

An unrepealed law of the pilgrim fathers in New England reads: “All women, of whatever rank, profession or whether maids or widows, who shall, after this act, impose upon or betray into matrimony any of his majesty’s subjects by virtue of scents, cosmetics, washes, paints, artificial teeth, false hair or high heels, shall incur the penalty of the law now in force against witchcraft.”