The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-21
President of the Anti Matrimonial
Society of ~. Louis Conn
~ Weakened.
LEAGUE WAS THEN DISSOLVED.
Small Boys Who Had Resolved
That Girls Is Good Fur Moth
in" Reconsidercd Their
Conclusion.

That an auti-mltrimonial society cannot
exist in st. Louis County. whose Gre;na
Green. Clayton. Is the joy Of eloping
couples. has been demonstrated.
Tn. league formed by boys Of Maplewood
and Shrewsbury Park has been dissolved by
unanimous consent. The detection OF :ha
president Of the organization. Virgil Bras-
don. is responsible for tn. abandonment II
the principles which made the society pc
cuiiar to Itself He fell Ii victim 10 the
charms of a biuni-haiieJ little girl. and. I;
is said. even kissed her ia "A kissing game.
The organization Was formed about two
weeks ago hv small boys 10 The number II
twenty. They were all playing bali together
and after ;hr game they vowed that rough
sports were the only ones. AMI they tabuu-'i
anything sirlsh IL was discovered that
girls couldn't throw. OF play CHIMES" or
i" MANY other things that boys do, az IL
WAS y'tcI that giris were uD earthly use:
and that this thing, atrimons. that Older
people talked 81 mu.i about. Was "a fraud.
Nav" said one: 'whuts ~ use - mar
ryin' a g;rl GirS Is good FUR n"thiu'.
This seemed To be- THE sentiment Of AL
aud the society resulted.
Things went smoothly FOR awhile. Boys
VIII" had been wont t0 carry sum. particular
girls books home from school. ani who had
been otherwise sweet on h-T." maufu!iy
withstOol the temptation The very young
ladies' We're much surprised at such de
m-aUor. but they returned sights with in
;er-st and turned up their little nUs-s with
Infinite contempt at the silly bows Ii ~
said that Of the boys when correr-j by
his sweetheart and when size angTiy tie
mand-ti OF him the reasons FOR hts conduct.
told all about th, snti-matrim society.
The htti- lady raised her eyebrows amt
>uappvd ont. What g1Osrs yvu boys are
All the time bra gdOn was the model
among the boys III exhibiting his lack Of
consideration FOR the faiT s-N. lie WIS the
life of the organization. and WAS continually
announcing the maxim that girls are no
use" some Of the twenty began 'o show
signs of Weakening the INST few days. bat
Braydon sn-rr-d them out -: IL. Yet the
president Of the society met his Waterloo.
II" WAS invited To party In the city. He
Thought that real men ought not To attend
larti-". but he went. especially is tb-re
would be mostly strangers there who were
tIugcqtsIntr,l with his Standing In the anti
matrimonial society. Their" we're many girls
Of his Own age present. ana ne saw that he
had made fatal mistake. Hut he bore up
and tried 10 look and act unc1ne.rned
IL would not do. however Two OF thre.
of the little ladies took fancy 10 him and
he was completely -nm-Sh'l. In one Of
th.. games which the young folks played he
was trapped and had to Kiss hts charm-r:
lie iia rot mind II. only nr wished he had
not been president or the anti matrimonial
society.
There WAS hope that the other nineteen
W.u!d not hear III Ms doirgs. none of
them was in attendance. But this WAS a
fali.tcy. one of the city bows Went To
Shrewsbury. and when lie heard of the So
Ci.iy. and of BTagi"nS position In II. he
gave the whole thing away.
"Details of the ordeal that the president
had To face arr lacking. but II mus, hav.
been something awful However. thu other
nineteen boys did not see nj to continue the
~sst-lrfy.