St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-10
WHERE MEN ARE SCARCE


1t was looked upon as an advertising
freak when prominent business man
in Birmingham. Conn.,, who happened
at the time to be a widower, announced
that on a specified day of local interest
he would 60 up in balloon and marry
any young woman who would go up
with him. 1t appears, however, that
the man was quite in earnest, and that
he was not one who needs to hold out
unusual inducements to secure wife.
But his ill-advised offer has led to a
complication that is at least embarrasS-
ing. He has applications from sixty
young ladies whOsa are eager to enter
matrimOny by way Of the balloon.
There is no legal way to marry them
all, and it IS not related how he will
keep peace with them all. BE may be
allowed to select or draw lots. Had he
made the conditions far more diff
cult, 1t is probable the candidates
WOnld be numerous. Some have the
impression that the young women in
Connecticut have grown up under the
hereditary blight of blue laws, and have
not the physical attractions common in
the West MatrimOny is, then, more diff
fcult for them. If that Is the case, it
would hardly deter the corresponding
male element of the state with the same
ancestry. The census shows that in all
the New England states the eligibles
on the female side vastly Outnumber the
young men. There are not enough of
the latter TO supply anywhere near all
the husbands needed. The chances of
obtaining them are sadly infrequent.
1t is not surprising, then. that sixty
would take the chances of a balloon
with a real live husband at stake.
even if sOmwhat of a second
hand article. Id the West, where
almost anything goes" in matri-
mOnial way, it is difficult to think of the
Yankee maidens as quite delicate and
socially conservative in exhibiting their
cOnnubial inclinatiOns so distinctly. but
it must be remembered that with most
of them it is root hog or die' bust
ness, to borrow a rustic expression.
Without knowing whether matches
are made in heaven or not. thousands
of them in the East would be willing to
90 as near as possible to secure a hus-
band. At the summer resorts the pro-
portion Of the sexes Is immensely in
favor Of the women. Even in the West
the margin is the same way. A lament
comes from the vicinity of the lakes that
there is bat one young man to seven
young women. But the men do not 90
to the rendezvous of fashion for wives.
POLITICAL MASQUERADE.
When MATT QUAY is taken for a fool
in political finesse, the sharp, tricky
fellows will be played out. He resigned
from the head of the Republican ma
tional committee seemingly for the good
of the party, but he is not going to
rusticate in political solitudes. He is
still senator with CAMERON. who knows
thing or two also about manipulating
politics. They lock arms aud take
big leap into the BLAINE wave that is
rolling so high in the Republican waters
of Pennsylvania. and incidentally
QUAY's man is pushed for the head of
the Republican league. and he is him
self TO become chairman of the Repub-
lican state committee. The double OBJ
Ject is to be served of killing off HAIR
RIsON and removing all the damps
that have gathered OH their own
eScutcheons. 1t is all masquerade
business, Of course, in patting on
the BLAINE uniform. There have
been no two prominent Republicans
more persistent and effective in their
hostility to BLAINE. They have used
the Pennsylvania vote to defeat him in
convention, although he has always
been the fayorite with the party in the
state. As far back as 1876 they took the
Nomination away from him and gave it