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Show drug upon the matrimonial market. Bo desperate did the situation finally become be-come -that the spinsters petitioned the colonial legislature to pass a law restraining re-straining tho bold and forward widows from practicing, tlwir arts and blandishment blan-dishment a upon the young men who might otherwise be charmed by tho simple and guileless maidens. There are more than enough young women in the United States at tho present time to mate with all the able-bodied able-bodied and deserving young men in the country aJid we may expect a protest if too many of their foreign sisters, many of them endowed with marriage porv Hons, come over here to snare eligible bachqlors or even those who are not first-class matrimonial risks but would do to fall back upon in case nothing bettor is to bo had. Birt leaving all joking aside, our personal belief is that tho American girl, high-spirited, handsome, hand-some, intelligent and free, will be able to hold her own against all comers and that she need not fear losing a husband worth having on account of tho impending descent upon our shores of any number of foreign women in search of American mates. The only way in which she frequently fails to livo up to the highest expectations of hoi admiring countrymen is when she trades her charms for a title and leaves the land of her birth to become a member mem-ber of the old world aristocracy. BACHELORS BEWARE. five thousand well-to-do British worn wo-rn en will boo a arri ve iu the United faf.f-H for the avowed purpose of ae-enring ae-enring American hu'-.bondf, according to Mrs. S. C. Seymour of Camden, N. J., who ban ju.nt arrived from th other hide of the ocean. The influx of war brides is nearly ended, although five hundred of thorn are expeeU'd to land tl the port of New York next Monday. 1 ),': invasion of Hpin if'-rs v. ill begin October Oc-tober first or as soon as tho pre Hen t r M riel ions uv lil'ted. Three hundred W',-1 r wjn por I io n b-'.", young women v .ere brought, o .'T from Knglaud to the ii lo N v ' f Virginia and so me of them f.-l'h"d ma ny timea I hf,i r weight j n loba'co in the op'-n market., whito wo-n-n being n-arce in America in thoi.e f!.'i;. Their number multiplied a-i tho yr-.iTH went rolling by, however, and Ihey ; ij h-'i ' o b"'"'rrre rnon: or e -- of a |