Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-07-02

and success.
INTERESTING TO UNMARRIED
LADIES.
We received the following article from
friend in California. 1t is an extract
from the Golden Era, and our friend
thinks it would be well to publish it in
this latitude :
Marrying in California-a popular Error
We do not mean to be understood that
marrying is popular error in California
for it is custom to be venerated for
its antiquity and respected for its almost
infinite social worth; we merely wish to
express the opinion that the whole en-
lightened world is most egregiously in
error in regard to the demand for marri-
ageable females in California. 1t seems
to be the general impression abroad, and
some extent here, that women find good
husbands as plentiful in this State as
mosquitoes in Cairo in July-nineleen to
the square inch,-and that when a sin
gle lacy first steps from the steamer,
mice young men" swarm around her
like flies around a molasses caSk, with
theiE hearts in their mouths, and a bar
rel of "slugs" ready to emFty at her
feet. 1t is very easy to see how such
ridiculous ideas found their origin and
obtained credence with the world "a
great deal easier than TO reconcile the
fiat contradiction given them every day
within the past three years with the un-
yielding determination evinced by our
Eastern neighbors to still believe Cali.
fornia the greatest mart for unmated cal
icoed humanity outside of Mormondom.
We don't much like to acknowledge it,
but California does not now nor never
did, offer extraordinary matrimonial in
ducemenis to misunderstanding widows
and misses. Men do not come to this
Stale for wives, bat for the "wherewith"
to maintain wives, mothers, sisters and
sweelhearts left behind. Not one fifth of
the single men who have visited Cali
fornia within the the past six years,
have done SO with the expectation of re-
naming, and certainly not with the idea
of marrying and settling here; so that at
no time during the last four years has
the number of males desiring wives in
California exceeded that of the females
in the matrimonial market. This may
appear strange, yet it is as true as the
gospel.
Why females in California do not more
readily command coed husbands, can be
attributed as much ( we ought to say
more) TO the outrageous value which
they put upon themselves, as to a want
of resolution in the men. They come
here with the modest expectation of mar
rying barrel of double eagles, and Sc
lecting from a battalion of suitors, and it
takes them some time to learn to hope !
for anything less. A wife, for instance,
that an honest mechanic might select as /
his equal, would scorn his overtures, !
while such one as would listen to him,
Satan himself wouldn't have. Two
thirds of the marriages solemnized in this
country are the results of frightful sacra-
fees and condescensions on either one
side or the other. Under such circum-
stances liberal divorce regulations are in
and are appealed with as
little hesitation-as the proceedings of
our courts will show-as can well be
conceived. Refuse to come down hand
somely with "pin money" and the wife.
having her eye on some one who wiH,
threatens her husband with divorce
Again, the idea of marrying here and
being compelled TO indulge wife in the
.uinous and ridiculous extravagances
which ten to one fill her head, is trans
lction involving not only deal of pa.
ience, but matter Of four or five thou
iand dollars a year. Many worthy
elbow with modest income has been
frightened from matrimony by the cost
y vanity displayed by females, in the
treet and in the parlor, at the opera !
md in the kitchen. A wife can be
in San Francisco at compar- !
.tively small cost, and when women ar. !
i've at this conclusion, California will re-
Oice in as much domestic happiness as :
he now mourns over ruined households =,
nd family discord. +
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