WHAT THE BACHELORS ARE DOING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3470, 9 March 1912, Page 4

WHAT THE BACHELORS ARE DOING.

WIVES SCARCE IN KANSAS

Bachelors in Kansas have decided to form a combine for the settlement of the matrimonial problem. Marriageable young women are so scarce 111 Grant" County, Kansas, that all the young bachelors have decided to form an association which will. seriously engage in the business of wife-getting for its members. Thirty-five good-looking young men, all of them well-to-do anti able to support wives, have organised the Grant County Bachelors’ Club for the .purpose of getting into correspondence with eligible young women, *'object (matrimony.” Part of the programme of the club is the issuing of a catalogue containing the photographs and descriptions of each of the bachelors, giving in detail particulars of income, property, etc, ...These are to be sent throughout the country, and women contemplating matrimony are urged to correspond with members of the club. The catalogue, which was prepared by S. A. Wilson, editor of the “Grant County Republican,” says; “Many happy members have gone the happy ways of the married-unany and. the purpose, of the club i.s to present a list of good, honest men for the women tired of single blessedness to look over and pick from, assuring them that only prizes will be drawn.”