Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1904-02-11
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WAR ON OLD VACuELORS.

Tt was to be expected that those or
CARNATIONS of the fair Sex the chief aim
of whose life is to make existence un-
comfortable for male celihates, would
take advantage of tho advent of another
leap year to do effective work. So far as
Vermont Is concerned, however there has
been little on the surface of the social
sea to Indicate that the present year is
different from any other. We hear OF oc-
oasional leap year parties but nothing
has occurred to the knowledge of the
newspaper public indicating that the
Green Mountain girls regard leap year
as an unusual period for the privileged
promotion of matrimony by the fair SEX
Some of our sister States are not so
fortunate or unfortunate, as the case
may he. For example 1t Is announced
that the cntcrprising unmarried women
of Carlsbad, New Mexico. have organized
the "Carlshad Leap Year association"
COR the express purpose of cncoura ging
sly Cupid's matrimonial pranks. Judging
from the systematic manner in which
the female promoters OF Carlsbad have
gone to work they do not in any way
regard leap year rs n joke. On the con-
trarY, it is evidently to them period OF
promised marital harvest.
The secretary of the association Is said
to have secured the name of every man
OF marriaeeable age in that town. to-
gcthor with a full history of his antece-
dents. ana in some cases a photograph OF
the eligible surrcptitiously obtained. has
boon ordered on file. Each male man has
been given a number by the committee
of Investigation as to his matrimonial
qualifications and opposite each mans num-
hor is written n list of comments that
would he of interest to II female home
seeker. In this connection it is interest
ing to note that brcadwinring is placed
FIRST among the attractive qualities of the
possible victim.
No mention is made of the manner in
carried out by this organization, whether
it is to be a regular grab game or whether
each female subscriber is to seek her
affinity among the list of qualifications
appended to the abstract numbers. 1t is
conceivable that the entire membership
Of the "Carlsbad Leap Year association
might pitch upon a single male affinity,
in which event the victim would UNI
doUbtcIlY rejoice that he appeared By
number instead of in person.
Another point of interest to the male
persuasion about the published prospectus
Of this Carlsbad matrimonial agency is
that tho conmittco of Investigation have
fixed no M,nt in considering the point
of rldrriagoahlc age Of male celib ties
This omission Would tend to show that
the association included women Of eN-
pcri.ncc: Tor immature amateurs would
naturally have insisted that in order to
b. eligible man must be somewhat
adolesccnt and possessed of plenteous
degree of pulchritude.
We are 1T loss to understand the neces-
sity for a female organization of this
kind in the wild and woody West. We
have been taught to believe that women
were so scarce on the frontierthat cowboys
were not unwilling to fight dues of one
kind and another over the capture Of a
stray female il this report from distant
New Mo>ico is correct however, there
the matrimonial marSet is over-supplied
and there is no use of spinsters COINS
West where they are not known with
the hone OF prospective matrimonY.
our advice t. The Green Mountain girls
some candidate for governor may be in