Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-29
THE sPissrEas, RESI-.

~ .11SGeWAE SOCIAL CONDITION.
Bristol, Toe prosperous manniac-
turing center OF Bucks county, is an
OLD maids town. Wel!-iniosmeI
citizens OF that enterprising borough
claim that there are more unmarried
but tnarfiageabie women there In
proportion 10 the population than
can be found in any other place be-
tween the silTery Delaware aud the
Ohio State line. Careful estimates
made by the census enumerators
place the number Of el!gibies whose
years range from 30 years upward
at 2lo. Old residenters, who have
kept keen watch upon tue solitary
maiis about them make the figures
much larger than those Of the
enumeratnTs.
In quiet Quaker home on aristo-
cratic Radcline street is n brood OF
five maids, the oi,icst of whom Is
nearing threese0re and ten, ami the
youugest is approaching the meridi-
an q life. Not 50 far away dwells
the oldest old maid in the town.
She Is a leader in the FTiends'
Church, and three-gnarteis Of a
century measures her years. She
iias a sister Who Is already far beyond
The pcint at which the minority oi
women marry.
( Radcline Street Is The most fash
ionabie portion Of the town, aud
stretches along the river front. On
/ Il live no fewer than twenty-six fe
maies who belong to that class com
/ monty called sold maids.' Proud
as Radcliffe Street may be OF II.
record ia clinging to its girls, Wood
and Cedar streets surpsss it. The
men witt. marriage in their mind:
seem to have avoided these two
thoroughfares entirely.
There are nineteen lady schoo
teachers in the borough, AMI gen
tIeman connected with the boar
said yesterday that with but trliiin-
few exceptions all had passed TN
border line that bounds girih9ou
Among the number who are enjoy
ing = single life is Miss Eiiz: Val
iyrn.a maiden 0f some sixty year
old. who looks upDa marriage
neither rs q dead failure nor III
consnmmation Of bliss. She re
marked:
Goa, M, l don't believe marriag'
< a failure: but | do think tha
there is a sOInd, practical reason 70
or Bristol girls 10: marrying.
kuow o. a numbe: Of cases wher
nec,liar circumstances separated az
roted lovers, aud the girls are oil
.nI unmarried yet. There is plea;
Irs IN single as well sin marie
iife." a.,
Another maiden lady, past th
,lfcsntury mark, said: q had n
ne for husband, and 50 PAID u
| attention 10 tie men who came VII
AR, OF marriage. A man In tii
n,i1-i.y of eases is only that muc
extra luggage for the woman |
iclrry."
Lines Munroe B.udeD, a me
NOR able Democrat who cast nj
Hr-. presidential vote for Genera
Jackson, said, concerning the Ia
sex:
- There IS au unnt "a &c
lover % years old in pretty near
ali the houses In town. ! can't te
YOU why, but they arsthere- non
! his strange condition OF things
not the fault o: the gids, for BRISK
has as mlny pretty girls US an
own in the State. Only last wee
two young men Of our town tna. .l''i
,itls from outside the oorous'
Now, that wasn't right"
The wife Of census enumerate
was questioned about old maids, an
NE STUDIED a Minute and then r
oIie,l: "Yes, I know few IN on
ward. / can name eighteen wnol
know personally. and this Is one {.
The smallest wards in the town. "A
husband says there are more won .
i. the town than men, Out l uo.
see v hat the men do who live y, he =
rhrre are few bachelors "-fne'
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