Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-09-23

stock when In ST. Paul. st. Paul Rubber |
Co., 1oS East Third st., St. Paul Mimi. Only
Rubber house in St. Paul not a branch of
any Eastern concern.
WHY THEY Do NOT MARRY.
At small party few nights ago,
says a letter writer in this city, / was
in group that discussed the distaste
for marriage which characterizes the
girlhood of the day. One young lady
had fortified herself with newspaper
clipping on the subject, which she drew
from her pocket and read, as further
substantiating her position. 1t was to
the effect that misunderstanding maid
ems, young or old, were very much
scarcer than of yore, that instead of
being anxious to marry, girls were
slow of inducement in that direction.
lit is true said Young lady. II
scarcely know girl who wants to mar
ry. They are Tearing something in the
way of a profession, something that
will interest them as well as support
them, two roles in which husbands
just now tail. The truth is, we are all
scared away from any desire to marry
by seeing how wretched those who do
marry are. Where would we look for
husbands? Among the ships and
characterless young men that fill our
drawing rooms? They are insutter-
able as mere acquaintance or beaux:
who could contemplate them as hus-
bands? have always thought that if
could find a young man at all like
my father could love him and marry
him; but that school of men has vanish
ed from the younger ranks
Nobody doubts that she expressed
the convictions of large representation
of young women. Their lack of inter-
est in marriage is not to the larger
activities which continually open before
| women, but to the unattractive, unreli-
able material in the way Of husbands.
Women are women, and would love and
| marry as readily to-day as when the
earth was new, if they came in contact
with men who aroused their respect
! and admiration. The order of maiden
hood that could content itself with an
! inferior article of husband merely for
the sake of being married has also van
| ished. The young woman OF the period
has too much character and self-rcspect
to dread being an old maid so much
that she would contract an uncOngenial
union to escape it.
The same evening I had chat with
my bright young hostess about ineffi~
cient men, a sort of annex to the con-
versation Just recorded. She wondered
what would become of the human race
if the men kept on deteriorating at the
rate of the last twenty years. She
declared it was almost exceptional
for the young men of first class society
to support their wives. They married
into rich families, and at the
end of two or three years were
pensioners on the relations of
their wives. cit is astonishing she
said, show few young women who are
supposed to be rich really depend upon
their husbands for luxuries or even
support. Their fathers or grand
fathers furnish the money that sup
plies their homes oftener than the out
side world knows Of Indeed, the
daughter of the rich man is more to be
pitied than the girl who fights poverty.
She sees fewer real men. Naturally,
she fancies that her ideal men must be
somewhere, since they are not within
her own circle, and she looks for them
in extraordinary places-on the box OF
her fathers coach and on huckster
wagons, or on the stage. Anything in
the nature of efficiency attracts her,
because she is sick of inetficiency. The
man who can drive coach may be
very unsteady in grammar, but his
mastery of the horses appeals more to
the imagination than the fine phrases
of an inefficient dude. 1t indicates a
certain degree of force and strength,
and I'LL women like that in men,
"Do you think the class of inefficient
men are really increasingly l asked.
"Alarmingly, and in all ranks OF
society, but most among the rich. l
scarcely know married woman init
mately who feels secure-who has con-
fidence in her husbands energy, ability
and efficiency. Look at the number OF
married women engaged in some kind
of business. 1t all means something.
l don know what, but certainly it is
the reverse of promising for the future
greatness of man.
THE OTHER SIDE.
The foregoing structures upon the worth
less young men of the period are strik-
ingly true. The picture is not over.
drawn, though sketched bya youthful
hand Of the opposite sex. But every
medal has its diverse and reverse side.
We have read the Inscription by the
hand of this young artist on the diverse
side. Let us turn it over and look at the
reverse, and see what stern truth must
inscribe upon it. The young man is
idle, inefficient, worthless. He dresses
in the height of the fashion, lives
]uxuriously, smokes his cigarettes
twirls his cane, handles around the
other sex, attends his club, and looks
to the governor to foot his bills
He is "all right as long as this lasts
But, if thrown upon his own resources
he utterly fails, breaks down, becomes
seedy in apparel, loses the respect Of
society, loses his own respect, and be-
comes an utter wreck.
The young women of the period il
the idol of her parents. She is in
dulged in everything, educated super
fcially, perhaps has smattering O.
french, can torture the piano, bu
knows little or nothing of the principles
of music, because she is too lazy t.
learn. She can talk of the opera, anc
of the latest novel, but knows nothing
of the practical duties of life, cannot
boil ham or bake custard, nor make
good loaf of bread, or good pounc
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