The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1916-06-06

| A sudden ana unlocked for termln
alton of the Hattiesburg Bachelors
Club, the organization composed OF
eligible Hub City men, has resulted
from a series of scientific experiments
which have been under way here for
last night.
Not only has the local club been
completely demolished, and its list of
eligibles scratched off, but a similar
organization of Laurel has suffered a
similar fate.
The SpinsterS' organization of Hat
tiesburg is directly responsible for the
bust up. 1t came as a surprise to the
greater part of the membership, who
had sworn themselves to single bless
edness for the remaining part of their
lives. But it all happened within a
space of a couple of hours. AT the
end of the experimental stage, even
the originator of the love micrObe"
idea. which. had caused all the trouble,
decided to learn something of it's re-
suits personally She took dose
and quickly found herself in search
of a husband.
Briefly, this is what happened:
Realizing that during this Leap Year.
all unmarried men are being subjected
to no few dangers from the wiles OF
the farer sex, the Hattiesburg Bachc-
Iors organized a club, the motto OF
which was Safety First; No Wedding
Bells For Us" The pass word was
: Bachelors forever; Marriage doesn't
look good to us" The members wore
bachelors buttons.
They held numerous meetings, and
renewed their oaths of allegiance. Last
night, delegation of Laurel bachel-
lors, members of a similar organiza-
ton, came to sHatties burg to pay fra
teInal visit to the local club.
1t was while this meeting was in
progress, that the Spinsters' Club met,
and called in Madame Hymen Cupid,
who discovered a germ which she de-
clared would soften the heart of the
hardest and most confirmed bachelor
in the world Miss Priscilla Prunes, !
president of the Spinsters' Club. rec !
commended to the members of the or !
ganization, that Madame Hymen-Cupid |
be invited to appear before the club !
for a short time, and give demonstra- .
tons.
That petite little Frenchwoman |
showed just what she could DO. She /
scattered her love microbes promis- |
cuously here and there. 1t was unnec-
essary to waste many of them on the |
Spinsters' Club: for those members
already were affected by the disease.
1t required no little diplomacy, eau
ton and shrewdness TO scatter them
the Bachelors Club, however.
The little Frenchwoman succeeded at
her task, and the result was, within
a couple of hours the Club was a thing
of the past. The records of the or ,
ganization were torn into narrow slips
Of paper. and today these are being
used by score or more Of newly made
wives as curling papers. /;
1t all happened over at the Lomo {
Theatre last night, where THE Mi ]
crobe of Love" was presented by a {
company of local talent, for the bene- 4
fit of the Public Library. and under S
the auspices of the City Federation of
Women's Clubs. J
1t was a packed house that saw the I
which was amateur only \
N spots True it is that few of the Y
actors and actresses ever may expect I(
o step into grand opera or trod the I
boards on the legitimate stage unless S
hey do whole lot more rehearsing, I
md pay more attention to their lines n
md less to their audience. r
L. l.. Robbins. one of the most IN Il
crested spectators at the affair, insists
odav that Emmett McInnis and Mar p
in King should go into the movies e
or a livelihood THE best actors | a
ave ever SEEM Mr.. Robbins said last L
light. after tossing Mr.. Mclnnis
lunch of sunfiowers, tied with muslin, r.
and | don't see why the world should b