Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 February 1914 — In 1975. [ARTICLE]

In 1975.

It came to pass that with women holding all the political offices ana barring the male sex from voting, mere man rebelled against taxation and, after a fight that lasted for years, the income tax became a dead letter. The government was in dire need and many schemes were proposed to make up the deficit. So it came that a mere man devised the Beauty Tax and saved the day. The Beauty Tax was imposed upon woman alone. She paid in accordance with her claim to beauty. The confessed homely sister was exempt. The fairly good looking woman paid $25. The good looking woman paid SSO. The handsome woman paid SIOO. The pretty woman paid S2OO. The beautiful woman paid SSOO. And in a single year the Beauty Tax netted the government exactly $32,899,677,455,233,111.—Cincinnati Enquirer. >