The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-06-08
4 MATRIMONIAL CENTER.
Facts That Disprove the Gloomy
Predictions Of the Girls
Of Frisco.
No Reason Why They Should An
tioipate the Destiny OF
Old Maids.
Al Average Of Eleven Marriages to the
Thousand-Streng Attractions OF
the Coast Girls

II 800 ~
that San Francisco is the most matrimonial
city of which We have any record. Girls
ar frequently heard to say that they have
~ chance of marrying here; that tho young
,..en neglect them. and that they look for
ward to the dismal destiny of being old
maids, Tn facts do not confirm these
gloomy views of the situation.
The average marriage rate in the coan-
tries which collect vital statistics is under
eight to 1000 Of the total population. In
Great Britain it is 1863, in France 1885, IN
Spain 7.55, in Italy $50, in $50,
in Austria $50, in Australia 7.M. In New
York city it has stood for some years at
$50. and New Workers are rather proud OF
the fact, as a high marriage rate is always
an existence of prosperity. Now, IN
San Francisco, which according to Mr..
Porter, contains 100000 population, the
number of marriages solemnized last year
was 1921. which would indicated a rate of
over eleven in the thousand. According to
this We have more marriages here, IN pro-
portion to population, than occur IN New
York, and very much moro thar are cele-
brated in Great Britain or any country IN
Europe. Instead of being q hard place for
girls who are matrimonially inclined, San
Francisco is really an ideal happy hunting
ground for that amiable portion of the pop
ulation.
There are reasons for this. some of which
nav be explained without danger of CON
troyersy. The San Francisco girl, as a rule,
ia normally adapted to become a wife and
q another. Fewer lean. sickly girls are seen
here than in any eastern city; our type OF
girl il we'll favored and vigorous. Perhaps
one sees fewer delicately beautiful faces
and esthetic figures here than in New YORK
or Boston,; hat the exquisite charm OF these
refined creatures is always offset by the tear
that il may be accompanied by undue deli
oacy of constitution. Our girls. on the
contrary, look as if they would never need
a doctor, and could buffet the storms ,of
life with serenity. Again, the tail woman
ton in the central valleys OF the continent,
ia unknown here. except as a member OF
one of Raymond's excursion parties. Once
in a way one catches the sound of a voice
which is ret on a minor key away above the
line. but it is odds that the owner halls
from 1.-THE states" Our girls, as a rule.
have soft, low voices,-'an excellent thing
in woman"
Another marked advantage which the
girls of San Francisco enjoy over their east,
err sisters il that while they are fairly we'll
educated and keep tolerably abreast OF tho
they are generally the children of parents
who, in their youth, had to work
hard for a living, and cannot be-
lieve that their daughters would dero-
gate by following their example
There are q few young ladies here who con-
ceiye that they were born in such undoubted
purple that they would demean themselves
Nv cooking a dinner or sewing on a button.
But they are rere exceptions. The mothers
of most of the gorgeous creatures who are
Respondent in laces and diamonds at bal
and cpera knew perfectly in their youth
how to broil a steak or boil a potato. Tht
daughters are to the manner born, in spite
of their fnery, and the young fellow who
realizes that life has vicissitudes feels that
if adversely befalls, they could do as thel
mothers did. :,
If marriages could be classified, it would
probably appear that they are moro fire
quent, proportionately, in what it is usua
though incorrect to call the working class
than In the class in which the father is tn
sole worker, and the other members of tn
family idlers. This would in part arise from
an incorrect conception OF life anon
those who are known as young ladies i
society. They are still perhaps uncon
sciously impressed by some relic OF the oil
Evolutionary reverence with which the se
was regarded in the days when its member
we're few. They do the pedestal bushes
perhaps oftener than young men like. 1t
right and proper that a young woma
should aspire to be q divinity at who's
shrihe men bow and worship; but men til
Of shrines after a while, however gorgeous
" constructed. When a man offers to tai
woman to wife and to divide his life wit
her, he tenders her something which ma
not be worth her acceptance. but is certain
" worth her gracious consideration. An
when he leads up to this catastrophe by til
attentions which are in such cases pt
vided his civilities are assuredly entitled
pleasant appreciation. Wheret they IRE m
with rudeness OF scorn the gentleman
apt to take the key of the fields.