The evening world., 1911-03-07
BACHELOR GIRLS,
IN NIGHT REvEL,T TO
DON MEMS CLOTHES
Indignation Meeting to Bur-
leSque Mere Man at Hour
of eX-Chief's Wedding.
TEAR UP
Every Silly" Declares Miss
Gardner, Who Becomes
a Bride Tonight.
TEAR UP

Great Is the ire % the fifty members
Of the Bachelor Girls club Or tao t..s
ern District Turnvercin. which has
Its assembly rooms al BusavlcN emo
Gat"s avenues. brooklyn. ut the dcf".-
lion a. its president. Miss Mae Gardner
Npt q member Of the club viii attend
Miss Gardncr's wedding tonight. when
IN violation OF the VOWS Of the club sac
becomes tho brdc of Albert Fink Of No.
439 Ridsewood avenue. East New York.
Al OF the girls received Invitations, but
tore them into little bits and stamped
taem under tHeir heels.
"a has la bride was shouted IN
shrill soprano by the two score and ten
bachelor girls last night as they rubbed
the name OF Miss Gardner of the roll
OF officers Of the club and broke out INTO
Trades of dcnunclation.
Only Two Rcd.Headed Members.
The club has been going three Yeas.
ard In its membership are some OF the
protiiest girls in the Eastern District.
There are only two red-hcaded members
and they were admitted to T., organizl-
tion only after they had signed two sets
OF VOWS never to marry. Miss Gardner
administered these oaths to the lncom-
ing members. During her presidency
she administered thirty oaths that
bound the swearers thereof to lifelong
spinsterhoOd.
Not only W. the members. of the
Gu refused 10 attend Miss Gardne.'s
wedding. but while the ceremony Ia
being performed 'I-night In Chrlsrs
Cnurch on Lafayette avenue. the gil
bachelors will hole an Indignation meet
Ing and swerT IT, their new president,
Miss Clara Rose. Of No. GS Milford
street.
In taking the VOWS. Miss Rose will
repeat an Invocation denouncing mar
ard his tyranny three hundred and six
teen times. Then she will sigh her
name on the oath register in red ink.
Sho will also sign nifty separate oaths.
ope for each member Of the club.
win Masquerade as Men.
At to-n.rht's mass-mectinE OF the
bachelor girls, twenty OF their number
will dress up as men. Double curtains
VIII he huns at The windows o fthe
Turnverien and members OF the basket.
hall team will guard every entrance.
They will he armed with clubs. and
their instructions are to swat every
male head that attempts to intrude IT.
self "A the party.
The girls masquerading as men will
burlesque the sterner sex In every way
their ingenuity can suggest. There will
be mock marriages In which the 'hus-
bands will swear to love. honor and
OBEY. There win be speeches without
end and Miss Gardner will become the
target for much singing sarcasm.
~ VERY SHY" Says the Bride.
But that fair-haired young woman
seems to be utterly ~ohllvious OF the
storm of abuse that Is being piled upon
Ter head. She IS the daughter OF Gus
tave Gardner, "A wealthy retired mer-
chant. who lives at No. 6G1 Putnam ave-
nue. Seen there to-day In the midst OF
Nor bridal preparations. she appeared
%Uadiantly happy.
Il think the girls are very silly to
act this way" she said. They are TAX
ing themselves too seriously. ] predic;
that the first one of them who finds the
right man VIII at once utterly forget
their vows. There Is the tincture OF souI
grapes in their bitterness, too. They
might al lcdsl nave Ndu tne grace 10
come 10 the wedding.
1T is true that ! vowed never tc
marry and at the time / believed ! wa.
quite serious. But when / met Albert
began to see things differently and real,
.zed what a silly / had been"
Bridesmaids Not Man-Haters.
The ex-president of the Bachelo.
Girls club will be attended by her sis
ter, Daisy Gardner, as maid OF honor
She will have six bridesmaids. none %
whom has ever been a member Of tn,
men-haters' Organization.
George Herman will act as best mai
for Mr.. Fink. and the marriage cere
mony viii be performed by the Rev
Mr.. Knabenshue. pastor Of Christ
Church. About four hundred guest
have been invited.