MARRIAGES AND COSMETICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2354, 21 November 1908, Page 2 (Supplement)

MARRIAGES AND COSMETICS.

TEXT OF THE GEORGIA BILL

As already announced, Georgia, one of the Proliibition States of America, is considering ia .measure “to protect man from woman’s wiles.” It is commonly called tlie “Feminine Wiles and Blandishments Bill,” and the full text of tho measure, which was ©introduced into the Legislature by Mrr George Glenn., one of the representatives, has now been printed and referred to a committee.

It is entitled “An Act to revive and put into force tlie British Act of Parliament adopted in the year 1070 relating to the wiles and blandishments of women upon tho unsuspecting males of this State and to make the same of force and effect in the State of Georgia and for other purposes. Section I. Be it enacted by the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of tlie same, that all women, of whatever rank, profession, or degree, whether maids or widows, that shall from and after the passage of tlio Act impose upon and betray into, matrimony any unsuspecting male-subjects of this State by scents, paints, powders, or perfumes, cosmetics, waters, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool, or any other kind of wool, iron stays, corsets, pads, or padding hoops, or high-heel shoes, V-cut. waists, lingerie, lace, variegated, dropstitched or rainbow hosiery, or by any other deceitful means or artificial practices, shall incur the penalty of the laws now in force against witchcraft, sorcery, and such like crimes and misdemeanours, and that the marriage,-' upon, conviction, shall stand null and void. Section 2 enact® that all previous statutes in conflict with this are author of the Bill, is forty-five years old and-married. Ho declares that owing to the alluring wav in which women array themselves nowadays,' men are not free to consider matrimony judicially. “I believe,” he says, that my Bill will make for happy marriage. I am convinced that the Dvorce Courts are largely filled to-day because, of the devices' of dress that women’ employ lure men into matrimony.