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Show Dorothy Dix Talks TAXING BACHELORS ij !!v DOROTIIT DIX, thg World's Highlit fa1d Vi'omnn Writ? ! It la announced that Pranca pr..i -to kill two birds with one alone, nd pr .-mote .-mote its Infant Industry and ml.v revenue reve-nue by putting such a high ta on bach- ! elors thnt It will rMdet Colloacy pro- hlhlUVO. ; Perhaps we shall follow suit. aln It ) la the policy of our own government lo la luxuries rather than naceaalUe, md I our lawmaker being moslly nisirled m n. will naturally feel that If n man wants Ll a prlilego of staying single, he should I i wining to pay for it Probabb ,h i l.a helor will lake the aame Jlta Of the 1 xui.jert and decide thai his i eraonUl fre -i dom im worth whatever il oats. Of irse, behind the bachelor tat u " I the very human Iniputsc tn mak. in. : slacker do hl bit. The married man , Mat his own income absorbed i.y family 1 expenses. He looks at Ihe mountain ot bills from butchers, and bakers, and tlrcaamakera, ami ehoemakejra. ond ! school and l.ab" speclaliets, and he j sees hla unmarried friend irlth n-.'Mng i t.. .io but spemi hi mnne) on liimai !f. , and he yearns to reach out the long arm ' of the law and snat.-h his pocket hook ' from him. "The welcher." exclaims Bi n..)!.-t. ( "thinks lie's foxy to have ai3eatcppd having to pay for Tarls frocks, and im-I im-I ported millinery, ami for raising a 01 I of children, ea. h of whom ' much i aa the upkeep of a yacht! Hut woMI I show him that lie can't get away with ! that. We'll make him support the COUP-, COUP-, trv. If he won t voluntarily support family " Sim h Is the mental attitude of the mai ! rled man toward the unmarried man It is an attitude that Is teeming wllb JaalOUB) and stdte. for, no mat., i hoW I happily man is married, th.r.- ar. times and seasons when the domestic bonds Chafe and he is filled With envy of the I man who was war) enough id keep hi I head out Of the noose, who does not haOe 10 render an account f lib goings anil ..linings and win. can buy fpney fishing rods and golf clul with Id money, .instead .in-stead of baby perambulators, Hence th.-Benedict th.-Benedict la ready to do Ihu bachelor In the ey al n .-r' l.an. OUrlnua, Isn't it. the different attitude i the world take- towards unmarried man and wonu-n.' Kvuryone la sympathetic toward:! the old maid. Always she Is an appealing figure thnt calls for tender finish! ration, but the old bachelor Is 1 the Ishmael against w ho in every bead la turned. Nobody .pi lies Mm. Every - . body blitnies lilm. N' pale lavender m-mance m-mance hangs about him. Instead, he In regarded aa a monster of selfishness Men look upon Mm as one who has I been craftier than they arc. and too cowardly cow-ardly to fare hc conseuii. tn . .ir. I enduring Women regard him i one who has cheated oiu sister woman oul f lier dui". anil the' ;re filled with i.lg-when i.lg-when they bobold him suanderlng OD his own ideasures ihe dollars that a wife should lie enjoying In the purchase of glad raiment. And both men and women are determined deter-mined tha the unmarried man shall not remain unmarried. Nobody ralaea a finger fin-ger to try to get the old maid a husband, hus-band, though heaven knows she needs all the assistant-.- she can get. and to ! pveaa-agented. and pushed, and have her stock boomed far more than any man does; but the, minute a lachclor app.ars on the scene, every body turns Into a matrimonial agency on hla behalf. Men try to lure Mm into matrimony . h) feinting oul Its advantage, and put- ting the soft pedal on Its drawhacka 'I ey boast of what kind of cooks their wives are. and brag of their kids, and I say never a word ol how eloquent even a good wife ran become when a man gels ! home a. couple of hours too late, or of j how many weary mllr-s they have walked J with a colicky ha by on a cold winter's I night. v mi -i strew the pattujrga of the bach' . Ii I with fascinating widow, and throw itrettj roung clrls al his head so that lie must Indeed walk warily If he avoid stumbling Into the traps that are laid I fi ! l is feet The old maid m;. be an old maid be-cauai be-cauai i has had no chance to marry. ; The old bachelor Is an old bachelor be-OAUBC be-OAUBC he deliberately ChOM the single estate, and l his makes all the strangir Ihe private and public effort to force him Into mAtrlmony, for the real oh-Jeci oh-Jeci Of il..- bin in lor tax Is to penalize ceilbac and promote matrimony. M ' ii great mistake, however, lo suppose sup-pose ihat because a man I Unmarried he is left iti undlsupted possession of his income. Kar from it The old bachelor I the predeatlped prey of everybody with causes and all Impecunious ' relatives. rela-tives. lady who sponsors a Hospital f..i- infirm cui. a Home for Decayed Canary Mrda, holds him up for a con-trllnttioo. con-trllnttioo. and every relative, to. the remotes re-motes l cousin, feels fr.-e lo ejiJI on him f.'i help Brother Tom expects hi baoh-I baoh-I elor brother to pay him out of debt I every lmc be gets In a hole. Sister Sue ; fcelfe II hi l'it to send her boys through i . ..liege nnd give her girls preity clothes 1 Aunt Tabltha writes to Mm wnenevei1 she needa new teeth, and Couaio .lonas re-1 re-1 minds him ibal bled Is thicker than Water, and asks for the loan of a thousand. thou-sand. Which he will never ropay. So the bachelor who ha. no family to gup-port. gup-port. Is nearly always helping to sup-j sup-j j.ori half a ilosen families. Whether the men who cannot he lured Into niairlmOhy. can b.- driven Into It by .taxation, remain to be seen. A few ' thrifty - Dllndefl dies may possibly con - ; . hid.- thai a wife l an eoonont) ami infer the bo HKtate, but probably the j greater number of old bachelor will stick to tllelr latch kes. and their freedom, free-dom, and iay the-price, as we all do I When w I'to our luxury taxes. -' OO- |