The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1881-04-08
A NEW PHASE OF AN OLD
QUESTION.

We do not arrogate to ourselves the |
gift of prophecy in venturing the pre-
diction that the American Republic is |
upon the eve of q great social revolution. |
A leading metropolitan journal has so
far depressed from the absorbing pur-
suit of politics as TO direct the attention
of the country to the alarming fact that
the census of the United States shows
that the lords of creation outnumber the
gentler sex to the appalling extent of a
million of souls; and, lest the public,
with blind faulty, should shut its eyes
TO this fearful showing, and be lulled in
to deceitful sense of security by fol-
lowing other channels of thought, the
announcement of this unsupported dis
clepancy is closely followed by note
of warning from New Mexico, which
takes the form of u matrimonial adver-
tiscment, forwarded, with the requisite
conditions for insertion, by lonely son
of that far off territory, to THE NEWS,
and published elsewhere in this issue.
We sincerely trust that there Is no
bachelor in Emporia sufficiently case
hardened to fly in the face of Providence
by treating this problem in a spirit of
idle fiippancy, or, by assuming an air of
empty bravado, profess himself indiffer-
ent to the ultimate results of the serious
condition of affairs which every man.
who ever INDUCED even the vaguest
dream of a mother-in-law, is brought
thus suddenly to confront The stern, in
exorable fact, that one million of the
ruder sex are destined to tread with
yearning hearts, the solitary path of
loveless life, cannot be lightly dispelled
by any measure of mirthful temerity or
minimized by cynical illusions to
stove-lids, rolling-pins and other cOnven-
tional weapons of domestic warfare.
| Nor, Gill it ameliorate the pain
| full situation to pause, in face
OF the grave emergency, to speculate
upon the causes which have operated
in producing this untoward dispr6por-
tion between the sexes. 1t seems to be
an impulse of our common humanity to
endeavor to ascertain who broke the
pitcher, but not even a tardy contempla-
ton of the skipping rope, the baneful
kerosene can, the deadly virus which al
lures in the gaily striped stocking, and
other insidious agencies which war
against female longevity, can brighten,
even with the pure glow of philosophy,
dismal future of obligatory celibacy
and irremediable bachelorhood. 1t is
manifestly one of those cases in which
nothing can bs done but to accept the
conditions which the dispensation en-
tails, INSTRUMENTATION of which may
now be regarded in order.
1t is, of course, perfectly patent to ev.
cry reflective mind, that the status of the
+, general census, set forth at the outset OF
this article, must inevitably result in a
complete and speedy revolution of the
prevailing relations between the sexes
and any man gifted with even the super
q fetal mental processes of the average
q Greenbacker, cannot fail to see that the
!. change will lnure to the incalculable az
. grandizemsnt of the ladies. By nat
!, ural law of commerce, which decree.
that the value Of commodity increase.
in an inverse proportion to its supply
there will be a phenomenal appreciation
. in matrimonial material, and In tn,
corner" which will inevitably ensue
the genus ''old maid" will become grad
. ually extinct, thus dealing a death blow
n to the tract interest and precipitatlni
e a deadlock upon the movement to evan
= gellze the youthful heather of the island
o of the sea There will be many othe
e departures that will beWiIder the senses
" 1t il dinicult 70 estimate the chaos O