Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-05-08
SOME WOMEN WHO DO NOT WANT TO
MARRY.


1t is quite pleasant to hear that the males
OF creation do not monopoize the growing
distaste for marriage. Every whipstitch
the public is introduced to long articles NOR
alizing over the growing disinclination to
wed, of manageable men; that they are
moraliu their habits, frugal in their expendi-
lures, have amassed wealth, sound mentally
and in body and limb, in fact, they are en-
dowed with all the requisites for
making eligible husbands to eli
gible and winsome women, and
yet they shun the opportunity, and con-
seauently in the more thickly and older set
tied sections the fair hands of pretty girls go
begging for want of an offer.
Very naturally sensible and sensitive wO-
men viii find limit to their patience and
get tired of hearing so much Of such stuff,
knowing full well, that while there may be
a grain of truth in it now aud then, it IS
largely exaggerated by the vivid imsgin-
ings of impecunious or mischieTOus
writers for the press. To the fair
sex then the following bits Of indie
penden: talk on the subject from coupe
of Boston ladies win be relished. They are
extracted from letter to the New York
Mail and Express:
at is true" said the young lady. Il
scarcely know a girl who wants to marry.
They are all learning something in the way
of a profession, something that will interest
them as well as support them, two roles IN
which husbands Just now fail The truth Is,
we are all scared away from any desire 10
marry By seeing how wretched those who do
marry are. Where would we look
for husbands2 Among th. ships
and sports and characterless
Young men that fill our drawingrooTs2
They are insuferable as mere sequsint-
anees or beaux; who could contemplate
them az husbands? have always thought
that If / could find young man at all like
nv father, ! could love him and marry him;
but that school OF men has vanished from
the younger ranks"
Nobody doubts that she expressed the
convictions Of q large representation OF
Young women. Their lack Of interest 10
marriage is not due to the larger activities
which continually open before women, but
to the unattraetive, unreliable 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 msidenhoo3
thai could content itself with an inferior
article Of HdssSr1 merely for the sake Of
being married, nsS also vanished. The
young woman of the period has too much
character and selt,respect to dread being 81
old maid so much as that she would contract
an uncongenisl union to escape 1t. &C..
The same evening had chat with my
bright young hostess about inefi cient men,
q sort 81 annex to the conversation Just
recorded. She wondered what would be-
come of the human race If the men KEEP. on
deteliorating at the rate Of the last twenty
years. She declared it was almost ex-
ceptional fer the young men OF frst-clsss
society to support their wives. They mar
ried into rich families, and az the end of
two or three years were pensioners on the
relations OF their wives. at Is astouish.
ing" she said, how few are supposed to be
rich really depend upon them Injuries or
even support. The fathers or grandfsihers
furnish the money thst supplies their homes
ofteper than the outside world
krows of. Indeed, the daughter of
tie rich man is more to be piisd than
the girl who 6ghts poverty. She sees fewer
real men. Naturally she faneies that her
ideal men must be somewhere, since they
ere not within her Own circle, and she looks
for them in extraordinary plaees-on the
COX Of her fathers coach and on huckstsr
wagons. ard on tie stage. Anything IN
TIE nature of efficiency attracts her, be