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Show EDITORIAL SHOULD BACHELORS PAY An old bachelor was told that the state legislature was likely to pass a law to tax bachelors $2UU.OO a year, lie replied, Well, it's worth it." Some old bachelors are such from choice, others may have a mother who depends upon him she is his sweetheart. Others may have been disappointed disap-pointed in love, 'ihe girl he loved lov-ed may have changed her mina and taken another. As a rule both the bachelor and the old maid have a story hidden in the innermost vaults of their soul. , Some old bachelors desire no sympathy. The chief myster of falling in love and getting married is that there should bt any mystery about them. Many a miner's wife has more children than amusements and recreation. Children are not always amusing amus-ing not even to their mothers. - Looking at the world thru tht windshield of a flivver is in many cases the first act in the play these days when the innocent couple meet. A young woman and a young man who are not educated up to the point of being critical are apt to get along well togethei as man and wife. Yet in proportion pro-portion there are more single women in America to-day than in colonial times. The reason given for this condition con-dition is in the change in the social so-cial .status of unmarried women as well a3 the increased opportunities oppor-tunities offered them for self-support. self-support. Whether the unmarried unmar-ried woman is happier than she would be with a husband is a t question, some are and some are not. It depends what is necessary to bring happiness to her. As long as the women of today to-day carry their independent ail there will be more bachelors ir. days to come. |