The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-11
WHY MEN DO NOT MARRY
ANOTHER EDITION OF THE RE-
VOLT OF MAN.


Men from Society-A Big Strike and
It's Cause.
copyrighted 1857
NEW YORK, March lot is the old, old
query why the men do not marry.
OF the host of debutantes who made their
bow in what is called society this winter,
two are said to be engaged.
1t has been brilliant season. Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is reported to have
spent S125. 900 entertaining. She has taught
society how to freeze Roman punch in the
hearts of crimson and yellow tulips ana
how to eat terrapin with gold spoons out of
silver-gilt canoes. Mrs. Bradley Martin has
made famous not only her diamond sun, but
a whole solar system of flashing gems. She
has iDaugurated the fashion of eyelet-holing
the whole stomacher of a matron's gown
and emptying the entire contents of her
jewel boxes upon the bodice of her
dress. Even Mrs. Hicks-Lords $3.50, 900
diamond coilarette has been simplicity itself
compared with the tiaras upon tiaras that
have shone upon the heads and the strings
of jewels that have been wound round and
about the necks and arms of dozen mar
ried bellies. Mrs. Martin and Mrs Marshall
o. Roberts have made dinner table 10
bare unless decked with literally, thousands
of Gloire de Paris roses. Mrs. Hicks-Lord
has hung her whole house with pink crepe
and eyergreens and made her brews of
punch widely famous. Mrs. Martin has
demonstrated that 100 guests are not too
many for dinner party at a private house,
and the Morris and Livingston balls have
shown the ease with which $4,000 may be
laid out on a single entertainment. FINK,
green, yellow and red dinners and blue
M m
notony, and yet the alleged end and aim of
Americon society, the providing of husbands
for girls, has been only to a limited extent
subServed.
The winter has been what pretty girls
call sticky; that is many of them have
been stuck, in older parlance left, at many
of the entertainments.
1t has not been an uncommon spectacle TO
see a slender, bright-eyed creature, in whose
honor coming out breakfast or an intro
ductory tea or a dinner dance had been
given within a fortnight, go home the
second time she was invited out before the
cotillion or sit cisconsolate in a corner, the
roses on her gown and in her cheeks droop-
ing. The young man has vanished out of
society to an extent which makes his former
scarcity look like plenitude. One of the
most popular Patriarchs offered his invita-
lions for the last ball to ten marriageble
young men. He was refused in every
instance, and finally sent them to some
cradle recruits who alone appreciate soc al
favors. At the first ratriarchs' there were
by count five women present to one man,
and the proportion did not decrease through
out the season.
1t would have been comical if it had not
been from the damsels point of view,
pathetic to see the girls huddled III
melancholy groups discussing the situation
in downcaSt fashion, while the stray young
mo xubn had Nvo111arad In fullu t.aaliziu
their own value and their perfect command
of the situation, either coolly picked out the
maidens they were disposd to favor and car
ried them off for tete-a-tetes or bolted their
suppers and departed. making the last end
of the ball desert where the first had been
drought. For the most part, the young
man when he honored any asSemblage with
his presence held up the doorpost instead of
dancing, and when he danced he chose a
matronly partner, making one satiric
belle observed, a corps de ballet as nature as
Mapleson's. Hardly a notable dance tits
winter has been led by girl in her teens.
1t has been emphatically rough on the de-
butanteS.
The dearth of eligible men was never
more significantly marked than by a recent
trifiing change III social usages. Except at
the big public balls there are now no dance
orders. AS things have been, a girl who
was in any way popular was obliged to
dance with babies whether better parties
might be had or not The extremely young
fry who had enthusiasm enough left to be
glad to devote themselves to a belle passed
her programme about among Themselves,
putting names down for the best dances,
while her belleship lost her chance of ang-
ling for the grown-up partner she wanted
who was too much ON his dignity to entreat
but must needs be cautiously entreated
The new scheme without written evidence
over against pet waltz leaves her free to
capture her prize or fall back on the infant
brigade If she fails.
Does all this mean that men are growing
less susceptible or women less attractive:
that sentiment has had its day and that
Corydou and Phyllis prattle only of settle
ments and bank accounts, that is the golden
age of extravaganza, that the pace is set by
incomes not much under million and that
marrying men find it too hoti Perhaps it
means these things but poor people get
married it is people not poor who don't;
certainly it means 70 society people some
thing even more prosaic. New York keeps
TOO late hours. Society has been more UNI
reasonable in this respect this winter than
ever before, and has brought upon itself
Revolt of Man. Women whose business is
pleasure have imposed foreign customs : a
community which has practically, no men
with whom business and pleasure are not
separate terms Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
10 SbdIb a TtlOIlu. TOT lue lUOSU lll
portant private ball of the season in her
house invitations were sent ont with a re-
quest for early hours emphasized The half
dozen guests who complied by putting in
an appearance before II o'clock found the
house, save for the hostess and her family.
empty. Midnight is striking before the
carriages set down their loads at Demon
ico's door, supper is not over before 2:30 in
the morning and after that this dance
music has yet to strike up and keep the feet
busy till well past 5. There are fairy tales
afloat of the care taken of the girls; of
families which employ trained nurses by
the winter TO supervise the health of toe
debutante, to bath her and give her message
treatment, to feed her, to see that nobody
disturbs her beauty sleep before noon. The
bud is blown to the point OF willing by
Lent in spite of all. How about the young
mani
1t is physical impossibility for a man
who has his way to make in the world to 20
TO bed not much before o'clock and get UP
again at S. II is suicidal work and the
result is the very sensible masculine retire
ment from social pleasures or duties. Men
have struck, and nothing short of very
liberal concessions in point of hours will
ever lure them back. 1t is a big strike and
its proportions grow every month.
Great is the power of woman INIT NOT