The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-15
BACHELOR GIRLS.
Most Remarkable Movement
Breaks Out in Michigan.
Girls Organizing In Clubs OPP
posed TO Marriage
UNTIL 20 YEARS OLD.
After That Age IrreprOachable
Young Men Apply.
Women to No Longer Be
Household Drudges.

Lafayette, Ind, April 15.-NIiss Emma
Ray of Cass county, Michigan, has been
commissioned by the Bachelor Girls
association of that state to organize
branch societies throughout Indiana.
The Bachelor Girls association was
conceived by the young women of Ed
harrisburg, a little hamlet of several
hundred souls, and its outlined object
IS to fit womanhOOd for higher positions
IN life than to be wives, driven by mar
riage into the drudgery and slavery of
marital life and the inevitable results of
i'll conceived alliances.
The society was organized in Sep
tember 1896, and each member is pledg-
cd by solemn oath to remain single un-
til she is 25 years old, when she may
receive matrimonial propositions from
well educated young men of irreproach-
able character The letters commenda-
tory of the society were received in
such numbers that action looking tow
ard national organization was deter
mined upon.
The managers of matrimonial bu-
reaus in large cities throughout the
United States have become solicitous
regarding the society and its threaten
ed phenomenal growth and letters have
been received from them bewailing
what the promoters of matrimony call
the alarming increase of spinster
men,
To these communications the society
is Obdurate and the effort to promote
woman's welfare by the unique meth
OdS proposed, 1nel1g1blHty to marry be-
fore 25 and the education of the sex to
higher plane. will be vigorously pros
ecuted.
Miss Ray will at once begin the work
OF organization among her sex in Indi-
ana, making this city her HEADQUARTERS
This unique organization has attracted
Widespread attention, and while not in
favor with Frances Willard, its ideas
are being cordially received.
AT ST. LOUIS
St Louis, April 15-Women viii be
interested in the fact that Miss Alice
z. MOSley of LaDOrte Ind. is headed this
way Miss MOsley is a reforner OF the
most advanced type; the leader of a
cult to promote welded felicity In an
age when women are struggling to as
sumo many of the prerogatives hereto
fore mOnopoliZed by men and protest
ing against having their civil progress
hampered by orthodox domestic ties.
Miss 8aOSfey WIKI dOubtle be regarded
by some of her sex as a socialist OF
dangerous prOchVities. She will arrive
in st. Louis in a few days to engage in
the task of. evangelizing Missouri
This fin de steele refOrmer will try to
organize here Bachelor Girls associa-
ton, similar to the one recently found
ed at Edwardsburg, Mich. Let no one
suppose that her aim is to promote
bachelorship, feminine or masculine.
Quite the contrary, She wishes to pro-
mote marriage, but she wants the in
tereStS and happiness of the women to
of membership will carry a binding OBJ
legation to not marry before the age Of
%, when propositions of matTimOny
may be considered from irreprOacha BILE
young men. These societies will be the
first in the United States to seek to reg
ulate the age at which young women
may commit matrimony. Their pur-
pose is to prevent i'll conceived mar
riages.
Miss Mosley viii establish clubs
throughout Missouri Her idea is to
create national organization of young
women who will cooperate for the ad-
vancement of their sex.