Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-04-03

This point we stated the other day In an ar
ticle which has already attracted considers
Ole attention. The old emigrant took his
wife with him to a new country. The his
tory ofold migrations tells interesting tales
OF the tolls and sufferings and privations of
these new settlers. Husband and wife them
put their heads and hands. together to con-
struct a home and build up a family and q
fortune. But the railway has changed all
this. The new emigration is almost solely
masculine. The man goes alone to seek his.
fortune in the great cities or out on the far
frontiers of new states. And he leaves be-
hind the young women-educated, accom-
plished, attractive, to pine in singlsness and
seek a precarious support wherever thew
can gain it-Who are fitted by character and
culture to make beautiful homes and pleas.
ant society, and become the mothers of a
new generation. A vast deal Of the wretch
edness ard vice Of modern society grow out
OF this unfortunate mistake, which ought to
be remedied by organized effort if it cannot
be obviated in. other ways.
The letters to Mr.. Jackson show that.
there is an extensive wife market in the
West, and Eastern philanthropists should
take the hint and do what can be lone to
supply the demand. A striking fact which
appears;ln this correspondence is that the.
applicants all van women who, can keen,
house. One asks tor a woman who is not
afraid OF WORK; another applies for a wo-
mar who can cook we'll, indicating that his
heart is in close proximity to his stomach {;
a third is especially DESTROYS to have a wife
who; though she cans work, "is> not q fool.',
a fourth wishes a wife who can appear well
in company as we'll as do homework. These
hints are worth considering. They show
what sort of. women are at a premium in the.
Western marriage market. 1t may seem.
strange to many people that Western set
tiers write to the Sup erintendent Of emf
grants tor wives. Are there not American
girls enough who would be glad of the
chance to 60 West and become wives of hon..
est, intelligent farmers and. mechanics ?
The point touched by these applications is
that Western settlers a wives.of practi-s
cal ability and good sense, who. are willing
ito work. and know how to. make them
selves really serviceable: They want wives
who will help them, not ornamental appen-
Idages to elegantly finished and furnished es-.
adjustments. And SO many American girls
are educated to genteel do-nothingism, their
heads stuffed with useless accomplishments
while utterly empty Of common sense and
practical knowledge, that Woodworking set.
tiers in the West are afraid to run, the risk,
OF investing in that sort of commodity.
They want wives who have no nonsense.
about them, and would sooner take an hon.,
est, unframed foreign girl who is intelligent
and affectionate than the graduate of a
boarding school. who can thrum the piano,
and waltz, and dance the German, and pout
in bad French, and scold in worse Italian.
and do nothing but dress and spend money.
But there are thousands of American girls
who are just as practical in their ideas. and
frugal and industrious, as any. German or,
French or Swedish immigrants. Really,
there are American girls in this city who.
are quite as competent undesirable for
wives as any Irish girls that can be import
ed. The only difficulty is in finding them,
out. And. perhaps, were the philanthropice
Ladies of this to organize a marriage bureaup
to supply the Western market, they would
soon find a plenty OF American girls who
are fitted in every way to become the wives
Western settlers and make their hus-
bands happy.-h. 7. Weekly Eapress.
GOLDEN SHEAuES.