The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1901-08-03
BOSTON'S MATURE CUPID
DANIEL HAYES AND HIS AMULET
LEAGUE OF LOVE.
Early Marriage Is What He Is Trying to
PrOnote-He Has Already Established
Circles OF His League in Many Parts of
the World-BOstOn Quite Enthusiastic.

Handbag Boston has q new cult. 1t
Of all the queer enterprises ever start
ed it is averred that this latest ehulli
tion of the higher life is the queerest.
The prophet of the new dlspensa-
tiOn is Daniel Hayes. The purpose OF
the Amulet League Of Love is to dis
seminate the doctrine of early mar
riage and pure love. Mr.. Hayes has
had an odd training for man who. at
the age of so. thus takes up the work
of Cupid. He has been persistent,
daring, adventurous and successful
miner. He has roamed over the whole
world. He was a forty-niner and
washed the sands of CALIFORNIA; gold
en- slopes. He spent three years in
Ecuador. He got in on the ground
floor at Cripple Creek. When the
klondyke craze broke out Hayes jour-
neyed to the Yukon. He spent year
there and acquired interests which he
still holds. But think Of it. From
the Yukon's ice and snow, from the
crags and gorges of Colorado, from
the sun parched clays of Arizona and
New Mexico, to q Boston sociological
cult!
Nevertheless, in the few months
that he has been distributing his leae-
lets and spreading his propaganda,
league circles have been organized
all over New England, in Hong Kong,
China, and even Cuba and Porto Rico.
Hayes foots the small expense of or
ganizing a circle.
When visited at his business Office
in the Colonial building, the first ques-
ton Mr. Hayes asked the caller was:
"My dear young sir. are you
married?"
At the embarrassed and faltering,
NO." Mr.. Hayes speedily shot out the
poser:
"No? Why not?"
Things were getting decidedly in
teresting for the interviewer. but be-
fore he could fix up a response Mr..
Hayes was launched in ardent speech.
do you know, young man, that the
sins of society and the misery of the
world are to be justly laid at the door
of men like you? Do you realize"
and he raised his hand ominously
| "that marriage is divinely ordained
institution, and that upon arriving at
the age of maturity it is your duty as
q man and your obligation as Chris
tian to embrace it at once? No, you
palter with natural instinct and natur-
al law. You defer the day from mer-
cenary motives.
"If you find yourself attracted to a
beautiful and fitting maid you deny
| the manhood that is in you; you stif1e
the best impulse Of your nature; you
determine that you will wait until you
have made a name. fortune. You
| waste the best years Of your life and
then you lose your love. You waste
the best years of your life and wither
the finest blooms of woman's heart
and then lose your love.
Worse than that, you lose your ca
pacity for loving and you fall. You
fall into sin, young man. as every con-
firmed bachelor must fall"
He paused for breath an instant and
then resumed with renewed vigor as
it were "The crime of all crimes Is
one not written in the statute books.
It is the crime against home! The
| crime against love! The crime against
| the spirit of romance which if rightly
| cultivated would redeem the world
Although somewhat disconnected the
l 70 q dnCirn
| details concerning the Amulet League.
| Instantly the reformer's eyes lighted.
| Turning to pile of leaflets, he handed
| one forth. 1t began thus:
Paragraph Each circle OF the
| Amulet League Of Love is strictly
limited to an even number not to ex-
ceed so members and shall in no case
| contain a greater number.
| Paragraph 2-Sexes must be repre-
sented in equal proportions. For in
stance, a circle consisting of 10 mem
bers must contain five gentlemen.
| Paragraph ?-The accompanying
pledge must be signed by the organizer
and the members individually.
Engagement.
| 81 hereby enroll myself as member
| of the-Circle of the Amulet League
of Love and pledge myself to cooper
| ate with all associated members in a
| psychic union of will power as we'll as
| by word and deed for the furtherance
of the objects of the league. These OBJ
jects are:
"The promotion Of true marriage.
"The preservation Of the home.
"The correction of the di=orce evil.
"The establishment Of one high
| standard of both sexes.
"The publication Of humanity by
mutual idealism.
| "The cultivation Of true romance.
| "The revival OF the chivalric ideal OF
true wOmanhOod.
"The mutual success OF all members.
"The universal triumph of love-
| Mr.. Hayes sees great future for
his plan. The interest with which the
young people in and around Boston
and elsewhere are rushing TO his
! standard inspires him with the belief
that It will be but short time before
the scores of circles will be entirely
selfsrpporting. will have Official prilt