Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-18

dwell lZbZ 0lSconsolate Adams aDoVe
the marriageable age of 21 And they're all
eager for matrimony, too, but there's nary an
Eve without her Adam in the place. plague take
II, to quote Ben Harmer, president of the Gray
Bull Club, an organization formed to draw wo-
men to this Eveess Eden regardless of cost or
trouble
The records at the capital of the county, Mec-
teese, show that. the recent taking of the
State census there were only 11S unmarried fe-
males in the county against 1862 bachelors, and
that 42 per cent. of the former were under 1S
It's pretty safe betting that the remaining ehg-
bles are making ready their trousseauX for there
are about twenty suitors for each maiden and
each swain longs for some one to darn his socks
cock his steak and keep him in the straight and
wholesome road generally.
Please note, too that about 80 out of every
100 of these bachelors well to do land own
ers, who easily afford to support wife In
comfort, and they are as reputable set OF single
could be found hard march.
They are desperate men to-day. Why think
Of the coming lacs and apple blossoms, the
balmy breczes and moonlight nights, the robins
and all the other feathered songsters, of the
many beauties of that when a young
mans heart goes awoong and his language takes
a poetcal turn; its going plum against nature
to dwell in a land devoid of pretty girls and at
tractve women at such season and the thou
sand and more suffering men who have worried
through several years of such torment have de-
PERHAPS.
This spring will them mating and nesting
like the rest of the civilized world else the
Gray Bull will have failed in its purpose, and
hearken, all We single lassies, to what these men
offer. Re you blonde brunette, Amazon-hke in
stature or dantily petite, be you only 1S or can
count your years up to 40, you invited one
and ALL impartiav from the Pine Tree State
to Florida, from the mouth of the Mississippi to
its source, and from all the intermediary regions
of this Union of ours, to wend your way to the
Eden awaiting you in Big Horn, where you will
be just AS welcome to the lonely men as was the
first Eve to her mate in the Garden.
At Big Horn you will find 1862 eligible men
all ready to- first Of all marry you, then to build
you homes of most modern architecture with all
convenences dear to the feminine heart and
with a garden plot of considerable size whereon
you grow roses or raise potatoes, according
to your taste and education
Every member of the Gray Bull promises that
he will give to the woman who will come to him
from any part of earth, six nights week if she
desires; that he will abstain from all intoxicants
except in case of sickness, that he will do all
the heavy work about the house, will hire
MAN to do the washing (no chance of getting
n woman under present conditions), and to act
as general servant that he will allow her per-
feet freedom in religious matters and make it
possible for her to attend all the social functions
that he will be reasonable and companionable,
All these promises the 1862 bachelors have
solemnly sworn to fulfill and each member of the
Gray Bull has been given copy of the contract
"a onesided contract indeed-to which he will
affx his signature his wedding day and be-
fore notary public take his oath to keep
In return all these now disconsoate bachelors,
going home to bachelors quarters by bach
elors, finding cold meals or meals at oil,
wearing toecss hose, and being many buttons
short apiece ask is that some good women will
turn this Eden blessed with all natures good
things, but devoid of solid comfort, into hab-
table city where man live in a civilized
manner,
Big Horn presents strange spectacle indeed;
one might almost believe it to be a newly open
ed tract instead of a town of years growth.
Men, men, everywhere, and restless discon-
tented set they are. Men do everything from
washing to fine sewing, but it is done in hap.
hazard manner most trying to the temper, for
these men are not Beau Brummels any of them,
and it is hard for them to do other than rugged
labor
The few single maids and all the married wo
men of the place are pressed into service and
thew can get any sum of money for days work,
bo IL scruhbing and sweeping and putting the
Quarters" to rights or attending to the repair
ing of the linen and hose of group OF bachelors