Lotti Wilmot on Matrimony and Population.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4465, 27 April 1883, Page 2

Lotti Wilmot on Matrimony and Population.

Whatever Madame Lotti Wilmot may be—and occasionally she has been called rather bard names —she is not at all a Malthusian. In the course of a lecture at Tnvercargill lately on " Courtship and Marriage," she wished all her unmarried hearers a speedy marriage—the only prohibitory proviso being that a man should not have these three luxuries, " wine, cigars, and a wife," until he- wasf able^to pay for them. Amid much applause and laughter, Madame also propounded & scheme for -' getting their own colonists," which must be a perfect antidote to the depopulating creed of Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh. Lotti's teaching is likely to be the most popular? in ( this colony, where the " prndential check' '-to over-population is not required, and where the "positive check" ii not likely to operate. In concluding her. remarks, Madame addressed the ladies particu* larly, and assured them that '-'singleblessedness" was a mistake; and she hoped the same thing would happen in Invercargill as did in Wangaaui, where a jeweller had sold no fewer than five marriage' rings after one of- her leetaresv^nd in thankfulness to her had presenteaner with a very band some purse.—Exchange.