The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-11

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= Matrimonial Cesditsss.-
Prom the Chicago Times.
b matrimony Is ON the decline among
the more Intelligent clnsssss is undenisble.
Why the theorist should regard this az y
calamity 10 not altogether plain. Over
population has been the curse of the earth,
NOT MISREPRESENTATION. There have always
bcen too many mouths to feed, mot too
much food for the mouths. A sufficient
number Of persons will inevitably mar y
to people the world.
ence i'm single harness tn the yoke of
welded life, and can be Of more use 10
themselves and benefit the rest of human
ity Unmarried than married, there In no
reason for considering this q state ut mis-
fortune.
Ii Is quite the fashion Of would-be polit-
crease Of the marriage ratio 70 place the
responsibility upon tine daughters of
wealthy fathers who would rather remain
poor young man by the hand and go forth
rs his helpmate to build q home and COM
pcsenSy: M.trimoni.lly dispossd youth.
entering the state of their desire because
of the cxtravaRant habits of the girls who
twist their heart-strings into hard knots
by their ~allurin9 Rlanccs.
Now this sophistry IL the ankles nom
sense. The daughters of wealthy men are
like the wealthy men tlemselves-in the
minority. The average and general girl
is not the child of riches. Neither In IL the
unwetisieti. She has slitors galore. II she
does not choose "a husband for herself of
whom her parents approve or takes, will
tons upon without their blessing they i'm
variabiy arrange Am alliance for her suit
sSls IL p wi,H her %a s s"sia. an" i rS"n r;sn H;rl
seldom develops into the "old maid"
-
The larger proportion Of girls who
remain unmarried are those who have
gone to work when girls and become more
ar less independent in business or pro-
fcssion. The successful business or pro-
per herself and curtaiI her freedom OF
action by marriage as the girl whose life
interest ccntcrs in some mans affection
Love, marriage, maternity may come to
the woman of business or profession. But
they do not make up the entir. founda-
ton of her contentmcnt as they do for the
woman for whom they constitute the sum
total of existence.
.*.
The young man of moderate means Is
NOT kept from marriage solely because he
can not find ~ prudent, seif-sscrificing
wife, as SO many lattcr-day PENSIONERS
argue. The modern young man IL not
especially eager to limit his individual ex-
pcnses, deprive himself of tho pleasures
alone upon his income i'm order to sup
port a; wife. He must DC very much in
love. indeed. when he will jump out of
the sl.UO ar Si.JUO ~frying-pan of bachelor
hood into the fire of matrimony on the
same amount. When he contemplates
the winsoInc creature lc has asked To h.
his very own II is seldom i'm immediate
connection with the marriage service. In
fact, his mental picture OF the wedding
get well liked" or .Whcn i yet a raise"
the responsibilities of married life than
the girl.
Upon this girl alone. as upon woman
since history has been kept by man, the
prcscnt-time philosopher places the blame
of the falling oil of matrimonial ratio.
The theorist forgcts that the barbarism
that once cast the shadow of obloquy
upon the unmarried woman OF maturity
or old age has dissolved and disappeared
Ii" fhc light OF advancing civilization: ~,
wives and mothers was for 80 many ccn-
turtles regarded as the law of nature and
that the uttcrancc of facts to disprove this
arrangement was almost regarded as
The political economics who now cries
oit against the lessening of the marriage
ratio has neglected tn observe that the
since the doctrine that she who remained
unwctidcd was dcspiscd was set spinning
over the earth.
tunities arr now granted the single woman
than i'm the past. She il no ongcr forced
into lHilf-wClcOGlc marriage by the Tear
upon her that she will one day be afraid
to look q world in the face because she
il am "old maid"
Many ~ woman has spoken the vows
that made her "a wife solely from the
sco,rgc of this fear i'm the by-gonc time.
The largely increasing number at indie
~pendently situated women who prefer To
live unmarried is likely tn work a decided
change i'm the status of the odd maid"
The elderly girl, too. who prefers the lux
urics ar comforts of her fathers home to
sharing "a fiat or u b~oarling-house apart
ment with "a salaried young man Is sd
rapidly multiplying that she is bound to
have "a show i'm things generally. the same
as younger maidcns and her married
sisters.
The tendencies and the cold figures of
the census seem tai indicate that the day
of the " old maid " is near at hand.
Fourteen years ago out of every LOO
women i'm England seventeen were an
nually married. Now hut thirteen ont of
every 1000 put On the wedding ring each
twelve-inonth.
In America everybody knows ther,
arr. twenty young women past 70 unmar-
risl where tilcr, WAS one twenty years
ago.
There Were ma Files am Him.
From the Boston Courier.
They had just Begun their courtship and
were swinging on the garden gate, Ike.
meath tls. silent stars: and they were