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Show More Foolishness From Old Maids. And now the old maids are getting their heads together and are engaged in a conspiracy to stop marriages. In promoting the plans of these aged spinsters a scheme to promulgate celibacy was outlined by President Amelia Higginson at the final session of the convention of the Old Maids' association associa-tion of 'western New York at Fittsford, and was unanimously adopted. Members pledged themselves them-selves to forward to the secretary details of every case Of wife beating, desertion, separation and divorce di-vorce which comes to their notice. In addition. the police and court records of every county and city in the United States are to bo searched for such statistics. statis-tics. When the work is finished the information will be carefully compiled and printed for distribution. distribu-tion. Every girls' seminary and every Y. W. C. A. in the United States will be supplied with copies. When President Higginson announced that a large fund would Ik necessary her appeal met with generous gen-erous response. Miss Higginson, who is interested in phosphate mines in Florida, led the subscription list with $5000. Miss Abigail Bean of Livonia, who owns most of the celery beds in Xew York State, pledged $."000. Every delegate put her name down for sums ranging from $100 to $1000. Personal pledges were made by the maids present to make a strenuous campaign against marriage. In other words these women seek to make the race suicide talk of President Roosevelt, a condition, not a theory. If such women as these were permitted to rule the world would soon cease to reproduce itself. |