Show CHASLOTTE SMITH AND CONGRESS CON-GRESS I Congressmen have their trials as elI el-I as other people and as congressmen are 1 human they feel these trials One is I about to be visited upon them in the form of Mrs Charlotte Smith This I lady who wants people to be marrying when they are not otherwise occupied is going to assail congress with a marriage mar-riage bill To carry out Its object she wants the conscience fund which now amounts to half a million dollars She would give this a dots in lumps of 300 to marriageable young women so that the coy man might be induced to come I forward and propose but who doesnt I because of lack of funds In these days says Mrs Smith a man Is not sure of employment from one day to another He hesitates to marry with such a possibility staring him in the face But with his wifes small dowry as provided for in my bill to furnish the little fiat to buy her humble trousseau and put away a hundred or so in the bank he can look I I the future boldly in thu face I is the I honest mechanic and tradesman and i I struggling young professional man I want to benefit by my compulsory marriage mar-riage lat la-t For the bachelors who are such through choice she has no mercy She would crush them with her heel a she would a serpent These bachelors she declares herd together in bachelor hotels and clubs and prepare the way for paresis and suicide They are of no benefit to society They are mere driftwood on its stream I hope to be alive when they are all whipped I into the matrimonial harness There will probably not be enough young and pretty women in the United States togo I to-go round for I have observed that no matter what decrepit physical wrecks that class of old sinners are they always think beauty and youth their dueThe The lady will hardly succeed in reforming re-forming men at least to the extent of compelling them all to marry but she will have lots of fun trying to and they will have lots of fun watching her fail The congressmen will want a national quarantine against her |