The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-24
SOME FAIR CRITICS.
They Think 1t Is Mistake to Tax Bach
elOrS.

4n6y EC IS a mistake TO Tax Bach
elors.
''What do you think of the bill to tax
bachelors?'' asked the girl who was pre-
pairing a paper on the artistic in politics.
81 consider it a direct blow at matri-
mony, replied the young woman who
never mentioned birthdays.
For mercy sake, why so?'' twittered
the girl who always told the nearest man
she exactly agreed with his views
"Humph! It's easy enough for anybody to
see. Man is the most obstinate creature in
existence. Once let him get an idea that
the state wants to force him into matri-
mony, and he will decline to wed Venus
herself, though she be a daughter of all
the Vanderbilts into the bargain
"There may be something in that, :"
broke in the girl whose soul was in her
sleeves. Il once knew a girl who tried for
two seasons to make an impression on the
wealthiest man in her set. Thinking she
had failed, she joined a society in order to
become member of which she was oblig-
ed to hold a redhOt curling iron in her
hand exactly at midnight and swear never
to marry. The penalty of breaking her
oath was to have Autographed copy of a
page in her family Bible inclosed with her
wedding cards. -
How perfectly awfulp' breathed the
young woman who never mentioned birth
days. 'FDo tell us what happened.
ooh, as soon as he found it out he de-
clared he'd shoot himself if she refused to
marry him, so they just eloped and sent
out no cards at ALL
''Stuff and nonsense!' said the girl who
was preparing an essay on the artistic in
politics. but seriously it will be much
cheaper for a man to pay $25 year tax
than to settle mi1iners' and dressmakers'
bills every month, and the bachelors are
not going to forget that either
"Oh, as for that" gloomily remarked
the girl whose soul was in her sleeves, Elf
we are going to wear mems Shirts ties,
hats, collars, coats, vests and-er-bloom-
ers, a man will soon be able to dress his
wife in his own castoff clothes. Besides
who would want to live in an old maids
home anyhow
81 should" remarked the young woman
who never spoke of birthdays, provided
the man 1 had refused because he was so
stingy had to help pay for it.
There's one thing sure, " spoke up the
frivolous girl in the corner. Its 60
ing to make things awfully hard on US if
that bill does pass. Take for instance
the case of the man to whom you can t
just make up your mind to say Yes and
still less to say NO Why, he'll just take
that S25 a year out of what he'd pay for
flowers and candy while he was waiting
for you to make up your mind. =
''True," said the girl whose soul was in
her sleeves, "but there's one thing we
could do. We might get up young wom-
ans protective syndicate and keep strict
account of the men who had been once or
twice rejected Then, in case they tried
to dodge the tax by proposing to one of
u.s. we might just accept and then throw
them over. The bill makes no provision
for broken engagements, I take it.
"None at all, - said the girl who was
preparing an essay on the artistic in poll
tics. ''But, as Amy has just said, the
amount of the tax would be deducted from
our perquisites in any case. 1 move we
get up a lobby to defeat the bill All in
favor of the motion say aye. All opposed
"Aye!" cried deafening female chorus
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