WOMAN-HATERS’ CLUB

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11404, 3 January 1931, Page 12

WOMAN-HATERS’ CLUB

CHALLENGE FROM GIRLS

SEQUEL TO BROKEN ROMANCE.

Tho woman-haters of ' Asliington, Northumberland, who have formed themselves into a bachelors’ club, are to bo boycotted by the girts. The decision to carry out this ‘hoycut,’ as one young blonde put it, has followed the refusal of the club to grant an interview to three of Ashington’s most attractive girls who wish, to put to the committee these questions:

Have your love affairs proved failures? ‘

How. many among you can say that you kept every, appointment with your lady friends? ' ' Do you profess to regard to love affairs seriously and 'then joke about them to your chums?’

Tho girls so far have not been Jible to come to grips with the men, but they hint.darkly that there are such things as spinsters’ clubs. “If they do not intend to take any risk, a.s they say,- neither do we,” declared one indignant damsel of the delegation. “There is not one among twenty of the disgruntled?young men who has the will-power to resist women. Clearly, such men are dangerous and ought to be left severely alone.” “We will teach them a lesson yet,” the girl added. Ashington’s bachelor club, she predicted, will he disbanded within three months.

A broken love romance is the cause of the upheaval. Saddened and disillusioned, a disappointed swain vowed to by-pass all women. His resolution reached the ears of .others whose I'J'e attachments had also proved unsuccessful and in less time than a woman takes to change her mind, 24. hail pli.lged themselves to renounce feminine companionship. The club is now soundly established. Officers have been appointed, a covenant drawn up, and fines agreed to, to suit all kinds of contraventions.

The next move is with the girls