WARNING TO BACHELORS.
Hie endowment of motherhood and the .taxation of bachelors * are the chief provisions of a Bill introduced in the Illinois (U.S.A.) Senate by Senator Beall, popularly known as "the Stork Mayor of Alton." The Bill provides that every bachelor over thirty-five yeara-of age who"cannot; •show good and sufficient reasons unr fitting him for matrimony shall pay a yearly tax of £2. For the 'encouragement of motherhood the Bill provides the payment by the State ©f £2O to the mother of,each* child born within two years after marriage, and for eaeh additional child born every two years afterwards. For twins a State premium pf £4O and for triplets £6O will be furnished.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10225, 29 April 1911, Page 4
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114WARNING TO BACHELORS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10225, 29 April 1911, Page 4
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