St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-06
WHY PEOPLE DON'T MARRY.

If the signs OF the times are reliable.
and experience usually teaches us that
they are. there are two lines of business,
which in the early future must spring
into general use. 1t is marriage broker
age. For years an effort has been made
to establish them in some of the larger
cities OF the East. and on clandestine
scale. they have been attempted IN the
West. but the proud. naughty society OF
tie East has Spurned the Industry, whiie
the independent spirit of the West has
treated the enterprise with contempt.
This Joint combination of culture and
Vulgarity, as an Eastern paper named
a beautiful Chicago girl after seeing
her eat" have frozen out a business
that will probably prove not only profit
able to persons of tact and discretion
who may undertake il. but likewise an
excellent thing for society. One of the
reasons people don't marry is because
they can't-at least. we have heard this
remark made of yOdug ladies. The rea-
son they can't is because they don
know any Young men who are in the no
ton. 4 young lady may know num-
Der OF young men-perhapS hosts of
them. but maybe not one of them feels
inclined to marry her. possibly for the
reason that, like the Chicago girl, he
had seen her eat. And. again, it may
be for more serious reasons (If a reason
could be more seriousl. He may be in
that condition expressed in the vulgar
word broke So that however
worthy an ambition a young lady may
have 10 marry. she may not be able, in
this cold, informal world, where the
warm. sympathetic heart is usually
kept on ice for preservation. TO marry
at once. How much easier il would be
for her if the commercial rela
lions in these trivial. but annoy
Ing matters were less complex.
If she meets. and resOluteS that it is a
good thing TO marry. and that there is
nothing too good for her, her motion is
usually tabled and referred back for
further particulars. In dilemma of this
kind, what is a poor girl to do? What is
her redress? Here comes the marriage
bureaus great benefit. She could go to
this matrimonial market. and take a
look over the supply. and pay her 81
and take her choice.
A remnant or a second-handed hus
might be gotten cheaper. In half
hour she could have him at home saw
jRg wood. or chasing chicken for din
Mef. Every well-regulated bureau
would keep a good stock on hand. They
might be stood up like wax figures in d
row. while a lecturer gave their pedi-
gree and age. and explained TO the de-
lighted patrons the various accO mpliSh-
ments OF the subjects.
And such an institution would be
splendid thing for the men. Of course
Imean single men. a young man leaves
his home for a new country. and leaves
behind him all those young ladies he
used 10 coast down the New England
hills with. He comes away feeling
somehow that he ought to marry one of
those girls. but be doesn't do it, 1t may
be he goes to the land of Theodore
Roosevelt and the wild untamed buffalo.
But wherever he goes, he will think
sometimes of that bright spot back
among the New England hills. OF the
daisy-hecked meadow and poisoning
cornfeldS, and Tevered face will some
times steal into his memory, and he
will rise up in his wrath and d-m Da-
k0ta. with all its No. hard.
But whether he settles i'll Dakota or
elsewhere, he is very likely to eschew
the frivolity of what is called society.
He may early appreciate that economy
and application are the only means of
attaining individual success in the
world. In this way he may not consider
1t advisable to spend either much money
or time in the social Whirl. and in time
grow out of ii altogether. His leisure
moments are spent in other diversions.
or IN thinking over the details of his
business affairs. 1t is from this class
that our successful men usually come.
At thirty they have forgotten marriage,
except as some friend reminds them
that the lot of ehildless old man is a
very unhappy one.
They realize that the glib. frivolous
and changeable fashionable world has
grown away from them, and they feel
about as insecure in going out into
new generation Of people to select a
wife as soldier going out TO do battle
unarmed. The bureau would be just
the medium through which he would be
able to secure wife. As proof of
what a well conducted bureau, acting
under the municipal police power of
Minneapolis, might do in this city of
bachelors and manageable ladies, it
will not be amisS TO cite an illuStra-
ton of a wedding party some years ago.
In one of the Southern states. The
young people were playing at games ap-
prOpTiate for the occasion. when young
lawyer proposed, as a source of amuse-
ment, that every young lady present
make known to an advisory committee,
whom they should appoint, the object
of their affections, and that every gen.
tleman should make known to it the
name of the young lady nearest his
heart. In cases were two tender hearts
were signing for each other, the COM
mittee, in delicate manner, made them
known TO each other. But where
there was no response, the commit
tee simply remained silent. The
result of this unique diversion showed
from that day eleven engagements.
Now, seriously, why would nOtsuch a
bureau be a good tnlng IN every church.
and i'm society? OF course it would take
much of the romance out of c0urtship
and marriage to thus make it so com
monplace, still, would it not be better
for courtship and marriage to have some
commonplace features, than to have SO
many old bachelors and old maids. and
so form marriages. The outlook indi-
Gates that twenty years hence one
half OF the members Of society
in cities will be unmarried
This nOn-marTiage sentiment which
has developed so alarmingly the
last dozen years, has been the means OF
making girls more progressive, and they
are now seeking livelihood in cOmpeti-
ton with men in vast number of the
industrial fields. Female shop girls
clerks, stenographers, bOokkeepers and
telegraph operators are almost as nu-
merous as the males engaged in these
vocations. By all means let MinneapO-
lis encourage the marriage brokerage
The Exposition building can be secured
at very reasonable rates, and would bt
none to large for an Office to accOmmO
date the applicants. Something ough
10 be done to counteract the effect o.
our divorce brokerage courts.
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