Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1888-02-05
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A i,oston correspondent Of the n. Y
Mali b Express says.
coiue curious statistics fell into mi
hands the other day. which shsgt ~
produce isf their bearing on questi. 4
= The houf-a pressing question in ths
East, - issst-~the groNing nulnbe o
unmarried women. In one VI thu
smaller New England towns. where ii
seemed ~ II The family were almost
ceasing 10 be the unit vi society. mel
woman who Tor some years back b ),
Kept . record Of the girls Who have
grad, sted from the High school, of The
VT age. what hey nave done and what
az ~ date. has ,ecome u them. chs
gave me her hsur 10 the classes fron
ts7l 70 1875. from sixteen ~ eleven
years ago. and strange figures for an,
ssarry inx or giving In marriage com-
munity they seem.
The average age VI the graduates oil
. typical New England High school i
between Is and II YEARS. Hence il
so Id seem that the women uf whom
tais list has been kept, Ranging It pres
ent from n 10 81 yexss Old, have done
she greater proportion vi all the
settiing In .iie" which they are
likely to do.
I ere we're 10 girls 10 the class o.
ISL VI this number have married
have dlrd of consumption, H. are un-
harmed VI the 10 girls vi 1872, are
n.arrled and IL are iBgie. Oi the q
u io7f. B are married aud Is are SIN
gle. vi the II Vi 1874. 3 have married.
have died Of Consumption, and I; are
single. Of the Is oi 1875, s have mar
Fiesf, has died OF consumption. and Z
are single. VI the IL of is7o. o have
tuarrteu. has died u Consumption
AMI 10 are single. Making for toiai
ri 40 rssiuates, "a marriages, III deaths
sna III women thus far single.
No account Is taken of the years sine
iss6, b.c use, as the average axe a.
marriage IL advancing. no fair conclu-
~lun could be dfaxn rom the y. unser
Glasses. The proportion of single NO
men. II viii be seen. - nearly two
thlris OF the ~ii',le number. Wheihe
shis tow u Is fairly rspfesentati Of i :
,ectlon l have IA means vi knowing
no whether the same proportion viii
Add among the an~chooied or les,
-cbooied gals o. the place. There /.
40 vosious reason why II sboaid not.
however. Tor higi. school edueaiion
is nvk Sufficiently exalted tc rouse IN
sny tiIihd TIA. -uSpicion that tne gif,
sho las subjected herself to IL has
thereby uniiiiec herself Tor the domes-
tic duties oi her lie. he eleven deaths
acre one an.i all from ea.t-xind con-
sanipiioa. when gets 10 be hereditary
AID phys direiul iiayuc III families,
There have bee. two csses of in.ai.Ity
D.it these both occurred among the
inarri-st Twenty seven. The iarges,
uiiUsS4 :. S4..sfen la the families OF
he married Is three. Three of the g.
girls went 10 college alter aying tn,
ilge school, but these are Ia the mar
sisri list.
OF the unmarried ca. q follow III.
very common ieinini trade: they
are sriiooima'sns being ut Hsmp-
,oa teaching Tie lndi MS, under Gen.
Armstrong; 10 ia public schools and
aeadesiii >. ihiee set tyre reads
gro H. | Is the head dses.naker' in a
dry gosIas .siah ishment, ife>smake
ga smaller &c lie, 5 are muse t.aeh-
srs has udlssl medicine. Is are
,iitch,rs and buitDh,le ina >ers IN
,i,oe sbops. aud The remal nder ar,
nome stayers.