The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-03
NnN-MARRY1Na YOUNG MEN.
Something for ThoughsfuI and Patriot
peOpIc 10 Read

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Something for ThoushtfnI and Patriots
People 10 Read.
AT intervals Of every six months lsghel
there is no election pending, For war j.
Europe to ell the newspapers ana intares
the publicl, up comes the discussion Q
the momentous question why American
Young men do rot marry? Every leading
/ Journal has freed its mind on this su9leci
/ and pronounced decision based on pre-
/ ci=clg the same line of argument.
We are assured, first, that our educated
voung men do not marry as tIeir fathers
| did: they lead luxurious bachelor exist
ence with the help Of clubs, fashionable
! society, occasional visits to Europe and q
penchant for etchings, old china, classical
! music. DIR some coar ser hobby. Educated
young women are lott to wither like un-
i pluekedIroses on the stem. There is IN
CONSEQUENCES, imminent danger that the
native American will ultimately die out
and yielH his place to tire more unseliisll,
domestic, prolific foreigner
| We are referred to highly cultared
Massachusetts as proof Of this condition
of affairs, where the Irish population
i threatens to outnumber the descendants
of the Phritans. The reason why Amcrt-
can young men do not marry, we are
invariably assured, is because American
young women are extravagant, INDECENT,
/ Ignorant of all housewifely arts, etc, etc.
"a ybung fellow, with an income Of
81 600 OF 81, 900, would like to marry and
! have q Ihone, 4 sweet little wife ana
children of his own; but which Of these
gay butterflies of fashion would be willing
/ to live iii little house in Kensington or
| cambridge street, to keep one girl Tor
general homework, to make her o~n
gowns and occasionally cook the dinner!
| Not on4," Hence the conclusion: The
noble young fellow is forced to give up
his dream of q home and content himself
with spending his $1,000 or $1,000 on
] himseIf1
| Jhereis the explanation so familiar by
| this tinib that we all have cometo believe
| IT. Vow how much truth is in 1t? Is it
rue that our educated, even our fashions
able girls, are indolent, helpless-mere
butterflies who live in the sun and perish
With thefirst touch of frost? How many
men, in the knowledge of each reader Of
The Press, have lost fortune and social
position In the last twenty years and
dropped out of fashionable purlieus into
obscurelittle streets or country towns
In every such case was lit the men OF
women bf the bankrupt family who met
the shock with the mostcbstinate courage,
who most readily fell into habits of close
and petty economies How many wives
and daughters of once wealthy men in
Philadelphia are now shop-women, teach
ers, artists, nilliners, patiently. cheerfully
49, ..tday by day for the bare necessi.
ii ii re.
The average American man or woman
has an enormous amount of pluck, OF
endurance, Of the staying powers OF the
English raec-horse. He Tor size likes a
life OF laxury and ease and enjoys it to
the full. But if luxury and case are
swept away, there is this reserve power to
fall back upon in the woman as in the
man.
The secret of the whole matter is that
tie young fellow with moderate income
who does not marry does not want to
marry. He himself prefers the club,
fashionable clothes, etc, to the stuify
little house and chance Of ill-cooked
meals from the sloyenly girl of all work.
IL he wore once heartily in love, TIC would
have his own way in the matter, and cas-.
lily carry his chosen butterfly off to Ken.
sington. or a Colorado ranch il need be
Tn nihe cases out of ten tn woman
would be more willing, than the man TO
sacrifice luxury and fashion for genuine
feeling.
Since time began the Ophelias NOR
than the Halnlets have been ready to give
all for love and count the world we'll lost.
II there is downright actual love on either
side, outside matters count for but little.
Reports of cases every day, in which
young girls, delicately nurtured, and
married men and women fling away char
acter, kome, the dearest ties, wealth,
their hope of heaven itself, to crafty an
illicit passion prove this. We may take
it for granted that when o man remains
bacheloeand enjoys an occasional german,
coat made by Poole and costly wine and
cigars, it is because, in his secret soul,
cigars, well built coat and ease are dearer
to him than any woman.
Again. is it true that American young
men do not marry Are our educated
girls whitening unplucked ON the stemI
Is there any real DANCE rthatthe American
race, from indulgence in luxury and habits
of selfish ease, will become at last extinct
and leave its place to be filled by foreign
ers. Alscientiflc book lately written by
an eminent physician prophesies this res
ult and plainly declares that the native
American will become extinct as the
tribes Of the Lenni, Lenape or, before
them, the mound builders.
Now this condition of affairs and these
results may be true of four or five Of our
large cities and one or two States in which
the means Of livelihood are exhausted.
Unfortunately the writers who predicate
their alarming prediction on their own
experience live in these States and cities,
and haHitually regard them as comprising
the United States.
Outside of Philadelphia, New York,
Boston and one or two other large towns
marrying goes on as briskly as in the days
of our fathers throughout the South and
the great West marriage or small means
and large, sturdy families are the uni
versal rule. Even the New Highlander
(who according to these lugubrious fore
holdings, is to be the first branch of the
race toi perish), although he leaves the
large surplus of women unmarried at
home, sharries when he goes to the West
and, like the end of fairy tale, has
nineteen children and is happy ever after.
This danger, like many other Of our
social problems, will be ses right by the
natural drainage of the towns into the
country, where life is more simple and its
conditions more natural. ri Philadelphia
Press.
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